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Stephan
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sschmid [at] comcepta.com
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http://www.etools.ch
2006-01-19 17:28:20
The correct address of the 'eTools Mobile Search' is http://www.etools.ch/mobile
It is a meta search engine located in Switzerland that concurrently searches around 10 major search engines. It is super-fast and slim. A click on the logo and you are in the full blown meta search engine.
2006-01-19 17:28:20
The correct address of the 'eTools Mobile Search' is http://www.etools.ch/mobile
It is a meta search engine located in Switzerland that concurrently searches around 10 major search engines. It is super-fast and slim. A click on the logo and you are in the full blown meta search engine.
Roger
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roger.fischer [at] kaywa.com
2006-01-19 22:50:28
Hi Stephan,
Thanks for your comment.
The above link (eTools Mobile Search) directs one to the same page. You can go with your mobile on this blog. Use
http://mobile.kaywa.com/mobile and scroll down to the search. Here you best search for eTools. That's how I did it. You then can see that the link works.
The problem I have - if I may:
* Mobile-enables sites and pages are either not indexed or at least do not get a better treatment. We at Kaywa work hard that the mobile user gets a decent mobile page - be it in wml, xhtml, i-mode or the Vodafone format -, but in your search I only get the normal webpages - which are way to heavy to download on a mobile phone.
In the mobile Google search (beta) in comparison I really get mobile pages only.
* And other problem is the encoding. We are using UTF-8, but the search somehow displays them in another encoding with the consequence that Umlauts are not displayed as they should.
Do you think that you will improve on these two points soon?
To finish with something nice - the search is quite rapid indeed.
2006-01-19 22:50:28
Hi Stephan,
Thanks for your comment.
The above link (eTools Mobile Search) directs one to the same page. You can go with your mobile on this blog. Use
http://mobile.kaywa.com/mobile and scroll down to the search. Here you best search for eTools. That's how I did it. You then can see that the link works.
The problem I have - if I may:
* Mobile-enables sites and pages are either not indexed or at least do not get a better treatment. We at Kaywa work hard that the mobile user gets a decent mobile page - be it in wml, xhtml, i-mode or the Vodafone format -, but in your search I only get the normal webpages - which are way to heavy to download on a mobile phone.
In the mobile Google search (beta) in comparison I really get mobile pages only.
* And other problem is the encoding. We are using UTF-8, but the search somehow displays them in another encoding with the consequence that Umlauts are not displayed as they should.
Do you think that you will improve on these two points soon?
To finish with something nice - the search is quite rapid indeed.
Stephan Schmid
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sschmid [at] comcepta.com
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http://www.etools.ch
2006-02-16 16:19:20
Hi Roger
Indeed, the content of the mobile version has to be optimized for mobile devices. Currently it uses the same sources as the full-blown meta-search engine, but has an optimized GUI for mobile devices and delivers XHTML Basic.
The problem right now is, that apart from Google, there are no other useful search engines right now, but maybe I am wrong. Do you know other ones that allow to search in selected countries for selected languages?
2006-02-16 16:19:20
Hi Roger
Indeed, the content of the mobile version has to be optimized for mobile devices. Currently it uses the same sources as the full-blown meta-search engine, but has an optimized GUI for mobile devices and delivers XHTML Basic.
The problem right now is, that apart from Google, there are no other useful search engines right now, but maybe I am wrong. Do you know other ones that allow to search in selected countries for selected languages?
