Skyfire is a mobile browser that brings social media features to its users. Have you ever wanted to share information you have found while browsing on your mobile phone? Skyfire allows you to accomplish this and more.

Some of the features Skyfire offers are video capability which includes flash, popular content, which displays the most popular content of your friend and Facebook. Another great functionality is the Fireplace Feed Reader, which just provides links from your Facebook feed. This includes the ability of the browser to link your facebook profile with it. With one touch you can access your Facebook profile, places, status updates among other features, making it easier to handle your Facebook account without having to open a new application on your mobile device to make an update or add a link.

When it comes to making a search in this mobile browser, you have the ability to choose specific places you would like your search to be made on, such as on Google, Facebook, Twitter and many other sites. This search feature combined with the option of changing the user agent gives the user the ability of viewing the mobile version of the site or the actual desktop version.

Currently, the newest version of skyfire is only available for android devices running Android 2.0 or higher, and it can be found on the Android marketplace. We hope to see this new feature available for other mobile devices soon. This browser shows how important mobile search use has become, since it’s easily available for people to use and it makes social media and SEO strategies for your company very important.

Yahoo recently broadened their mobile search display to enhance and expand their search results to provide a better mobile experience.  Yahoo’s new enhancements  improve how their search result pages are organized and displayed. Results are now exhibited in a more organized fashion displaying the latest web results, entertainment topics, local business listings, stock information, Twitter results, images, videos and news in order of relevancy. 

As you can see in the above screen shots, Yahoo’s mobile search results are now neatly packaged to better accommodate their mobile users and offer a better experience. Users can now find what they are looking for faster and more easily while on the move.

Yahoo’s new mobile search enhancements were made available at  http://m.yahoo.com for most iPhone owners and people using Android 2.0 and above. More devices and countries will get the new mobile search experience in future months.

Yahoo has taken a new approach and is catering their offerings to better suit the needs of smart phone users. They are taking into consideration user behavior on a mobile device being different than on a desktop or laptop. Yahoo is embracing an ever growing industry and has recognized the increasing importance of reaching consumers when they’re on the go, which all businesses should recognize at this juncture if they have not already.

Have you ever wondered what search engines are available on mobile phones and which one is more user-friendly? One search engine has started to expand, to make its user experience on mobile devices better, this search engine is Bing.

Bing provides its search engine in two different formats, one of them is its mobile version, m.bing.com, and the other version is available as an app that can be downloaded in phones such as the iPhone, Android and Sidekick.

Bing’s mobile site provides a clean and clear design which creates a nice user experience. It also provides options on the top of the page to allow an easier search for the user; these options are directions, maps, weather and movies. The page also includes a “set my location” option, in which you can place the location of the area you would like to include as part of your search. The site also has the option of narrowing the search, by providing different alternatives on the “show only” option located on the right hand side of the page, which is available after performing a search.

The mobile version of the site also alerts the user that there is an app available to be downloaded, this depending on the phone and the application availability. The app contains multiple ways to help the user search. They include the regular search bar and a drop down menu to narrow the search, a clickable option to perform a specific search by images, businesses, movies among other, located in the bottom bar of the app, which appears and disappears by pressing a button, and a speak button, which allows a search by voice option.
The application also provides a settings option where you can control the safe search, units, screen rotation and clear search history settings, allowing a more personal and friendly search to be made.
It also has an image as a background home screen which changes everyday, and when you hover over the image or select the image, information about the image will be displayed within the same homepage, as it currently does on their main site.

As we can see, the mobile industry keeps providing users with mobile phones that have the technical capability to create users experience as close as possible to feeling like you are searching on the companies’ main site. This also shows the importance of searches when it comes to location and how a good SEO standing can help your website be one of the top options displayed by search engines.