dotMobi Requests Proposals for find.mobi
Posted on April 30, 2008
Filed Under Internet, Web 2.0
DUBLIN, Ireland and WASHINGTON, April 30 /PRNewswire/ — dotMobi — the
company behind the .mobi internet domain name for mobile phones and the
dev.mobi developer forum — today announced that it is accepting proposals
for find.mobi, a consumer-facing mobile search tool.
find.mobi was created by dotMobi’s research and development team to
demonstrate an operational mobile search engine that made the most of the
mobile web and needs of on-the-go users.
Unlike other search engines, all sites captured and ranked by find.mobi
are designed exclusively to work on mobile phones, ensuring that users do
not receive search results that will not display on mobile phones. The
find.mobi index includes “mobile friendly” sites from all major top level
domains, including .mobi.
“find.mobi was an exciting project for us. Although we have not –
until now — formally announced its availability, find.mobi is already
receiving significant traffic. And it has been implemented as a
private-labeled mobile search engine for one European operator with
additional customers ‘in the pipeline,’ so we feel confident we’ve created
a useful, valuable tool,” said James Pearce, dotMobi Vice President of
Technology.
Paul Nerger, dotMobi Vice President of Advanced Services and
Applications, said, “find.mobi was originally created by dotMobi to
illustrate and communicate to mobile search vendors how we thought that
search should be done to make the mobile Web more compelling. When we
looked at early mobile search sites, we were disappointed. We simply did
not think that it made sense to return non-mobile content as part of a
mobile query. find.mobi was built to serve as an example to the search
industry to change the way that it should think about search when applied
to mobile. But find.mobi has outgrown the lab, and now it’s time for
find.mobi to get a better home where it can continue to grow.”
dotMobi is soliciting proposals for the disposal of all or parts of the
find.mobi assets, which include the mobile web site (find.mobi), web
crawler algorithm and code, mobile site detection algorithm and code,
parking / landing page detection algorithm and code, adult content
classifier learning algorithm and code, and the find.mobi name / site
address.
find.mobi can be viewed and used from any mobile phone or up-to-date PC
web browser by going to http://find.mobi.
Parties interested in making a proposal for find.mobi should contact
Paul Nerger, Vice President of Advanced Services and Applications, at
pnerger@dotmobi.mobi. Once an intention to submit a proposal is received,
dotMobi will provide a notice of receipt and a bi-directional NDA that must
be completed before next steps. The RFP process is open only to legally
registered companies at the time of the signing of the NDA.
About dotMobi
dotMobi (the informal name of mTLD Top Level Domain Ltd.), a consortium
headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, is leading the growth of internet use
from mobile phones with the .mobi domain name. Unique among domain name
providers, dotMobi ensures that services and sites developed around .mobi
are optimized for use by mobile devices. On-the-go consumers can have
confidence that a web site will work on their mobile phones when using a
.mobi address.
dotMobi is backed by leading mobile operators, network & device
manufacturers, and internet content providers, including Ericsson, GSM
Association, Hutchison 3, Microsoft, Nokia, Orascom Telecom, Samsung
Electronics, Syniverse, T-Mobile, Telefonica Moviles, TIM, Visa and
Vodafone.
For more information on dotMobi domains and registration information,
visit http://dotmobi.mobi. Visit the dotMobi blog at http://blog.mobi.
For more information, please contact:
Vance Hedderel
dotMobi
+1-703-485-5563
vhedderel@dotmobi.mobi
Danielle Siemon
A&R Edelman for dotMobi (US)
+1-650-762-2947
danielle.siemon@edelman.com
Gareth Davies
Edelman for dotMobi (Europe)
+44-20-7344-1216
gareth.davies@edelman.com
SOURCE dotMobi
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