SEL: Search Remainders: Mobile Search, eBay Misspelling Search and IBM

check out the Digging into Search swicki at eurekster.com

Search marketing in the new media era.

August 18, 2005

Search Remainders: Mobile Search, eBay Misspelling Search and IBM

No Major Mobile Search Revenues in Near Term
"Significant revenues in the near term are not realistic. Ad-supported models are difficult as local content is scarce. 411 information and local search rise to the top of the list in terms of consumer interest in mobile content services, but, for now at least, they are at the top of a list of services with few paying subscribers."
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Search Misspelled EBay Listings
Cool vertical FatFingers lets you search for misspellings on eBay. Great for you bargain hunters out there.

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IBM Search Stuff for Smart People
I think smart people would really like reading this post from infoworld's Jon Udell. It's all about: "The UIMA software provides a framework for coordinating many different text analyzers. Each runs as a service that consumes and produces data in common formats. Applications are composed by declaratively combining sets of analyzers."

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