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Yahoo announces oneSearch for the mobile web

yahoo onesearch on mobile devicesYahoo is once again directing its talent towards the online search world. This time around they are bringing their oneSearch technology to over one hundred million phones in the U.S.

oneSearch initially launched through Yahoo's successful Go for Mobile 2.0, providing its users an easy way to access and find information as quick as possible, and as of today its available to U.S users. Yahoo oneSearch drops in relevant content alongside search results. For instance, if users search for Pizza in New York, they are send back results for their destination, as well as other category suggestions, Flickr images relating to pizza, as well as pizza related websites, news articles, mobile pizza websites, web images, pizza products, and movies relating to pizza. With this comprehensive list, users are bound to find the content they are after quicker.

The oneSearch offering is currently only available to US users, but will be rolled out in additional countries and languages over the next few months. To use oneSearch on your mobile device, simply visit m.yahoo.com.

Full screen shot of a search result after the jump.

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Filed under: Internet, Web services, Microsoft, Mozilla, Browser Tips

Firefox rocks 2 million downloads in 24 hours

firefox 2 downloadsFirefox's recent release last week did pretty good. Everyone I spoke with started downloading Firefox 2.0 the second they heard about the release. I just came across some fascinating numbers from Mozilla that proves the Firefox browser does indeed have a hardcore following that is steadily on the rise.
  • Firefox 1.0 had 1 million downloads in the first 24 hours
  • Firefox 1.5 had 1.5 million downloads in the first 24 hours
  • Firefox 2.0 had 2 million downloads in the first 24 hours. That's 30 downloads per second happening behind the scenes.
Now compare Firefox's results to IE7's recent release that took four days to hit the 3 million download mark. IE's results could be due to the fact that individuals and IT departments worldwide are always hesitant about installing the latest version of anything Microsoft releases. IE7 is still on my download list once it becomes a little more secure.

Who was part of those stats? And who is still awaiting more fixes to the IE7 bug list?

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