AOL Mobile Search Services
八月 13, 2005 – 10:01 am |Tags: No Tags
AOL Mobile Search Services
Now
American Online has jumped into the fray. And I am really impressed.
The mobile AOL Search at mobile.aolsearch.com lets you search the
Internet (apparently powered by Google), and then reformats the sites
you want to view so that they fit on the small screen.
It does an
especially good job of putting the main content of a home page front
and center. It accomplishes this by giving you separate access to the
site’s navigation menu rather than letting it clutter the top of the
page.
The Pocket PC magazine site is a good example. AOL Search gets it just
right. It puts the logo at the top of the page and then follows it with
the Daily Update items on the home page. If you want to access the
Pocket PC magazine navigation menu or search box, you click on the
“Find it fast” link at the very top of the page, and AOL Search
immediately takes you to these functional elements.
Note that one limitation of AOL Search is that it only shows you pages
indexed by the search engine that it uses. Skweezer, on the other hand,
lets you type in a URL and go directly to any page, whether it’s
indexed or not.
