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Send search results to your phone from your desktop.
Yahoo! Local released a new search feature today, allowing you to quickly send clips of search results to you phone via a free SMS text message. You can do this directly from the search results page - no page reload necessary. It couldn’t be easier:
Here’s how:
From the front page of Yahoo!, click the “Local” tab to toggle the search box, and enter a local search. (Or use http://local.yahoo.com directly.) Search for anything you’d find in a yellow pages, or anything with an address. All your saved addressed from Y!Maps and other Y! sites should be available as locations to search around.
From the search results page (SRP), click “Send to Phone” to send the listing to your phone. It’s sent via SMS I think.
The Send interface is straight forward, and let’s you enter a phone number, or select a previously used or saved mobile number. (It seems to default to whatever number you’ve registered with http://mobile.yahoo.com, though that step isn’t necessary.)
From the standard SRP view, you can click “View Results on Map” to see them graphically displayed around your search location. (Viewing results on a map is great, and also lets you quickly find nearby parking, ATMs, restaurants — even nearby public restrooms.)
From this map view, click any of the numbered representations for more information, and the option to “Send to Phone”.
Enter the recipient phone number in the same manner as from the SRP list view.
The resulting message looks something like this:
Give it a shot, it’s pretty good. (And if you haven’t played with Local search, this is the perfect opportunity.)
Congrats to my friends Chris and Jason, who were both involved with the webdev work on this.
Update: Gary Price at Search Engine Watch has an entry on this now.
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LYD's mini-blog January 26th, 2005 - 11:16 am
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mvl_test February 10th, 2005 - 11:24 am
This service is ok. but you can only forward it from PC to phone. What u really want is a way to send a request in a text message format and get a response back. After all, u are not in front of PC all the time. I use Koffee-Break for obtaining business listings. It gives abt 10 listings so I have my choice. Many more services offered by them. Movies, product reviews, stock quotes, weather, flight status etc.
http://www.koffee-break.com/smsserviceshelp.html
user_sms March 13th, 2005 - 12:03 am
mvl_test,
thats a very useful tip. I think WAP is cumbersome and not useful. You pointed to the right site. Koffee-Break has so many services. And very useful ones too. Plus, they managed to offer services worldwide. I was in Japan last week and wanted to know the hotspots. Sending an SMS to sms@koffee-break got me the response in < 1 minute. See more of them at http://www.koffee-break.com/smsserviceshelp.html
Unofficial SEO Blog » MSN Local Arrives With Send To Mobile Phone Feature - SEO Information much before its official! April 1st, 2006 - 5:52 am
[…] Russell Beattie reports that MSN local has added "Send To Mobile" feature. This feature has been added to your business listing. With the help of this feature you can send the search results to your mobile phone right from the Web page. MSN is quite late on this as Yahoo! has launched almost same feature, "Send to Phone feature Yahoo!" a year ago. […]
Braeden December 19th, 2006 - 2:47 pm
Can anyone recommend me?
I need an free sms service for my homepage.
I am seeking one with the option to change the design(for a bit).
Thanks a million!