dotMobi Requests Proposals for find.mobi

DUBLIN, Ireland – Mobile solutions company dotMobi, the organization behind the .mobi Internet domain name for mobile phones and the dev.mobi developer forum, has announced that it is accepting proposals for find.mobi, a mobile search tool for consumers.

The find.mobi index includes "mobile friendly" sites from all major top level domains, including .mobi.

According to the company, "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."

"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," James Pearce, dotMobi vice president of technology, said. "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."

"When we looked at early mobile search sites, we were disappointed," Paul Nerger, dotMobi vice president of advanced services and applications, said. "We simply did not think that it made sense to return non-mobile content as part of a mobile query."

Accordingly, find.mobi was originally created to illustrate and communicate to mobile search vendors how access to the mobile web could be made more compelling – but its growth has led to its readiness for prime time.

"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," Nerger said.

dotMobi is soliciting proposals for the disposal of all or parts of the find.mobi assets, which include the mobile web site at 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, plus the find.mobi name and web address.

dotMobi is backed by a variety of companies, including Ericsson, GSM Association, Hutchison 3, Microsoft, Nokia, Orascom Telecom, Samsung Electronics, Syniverse, T-Mobile, Telefonica Moviles, TIM, Visa and Vodafone.

For more information, contact vice president of advanced services and applications, Paul Nerger, at pnerger@dotmobi.mobi.

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