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Mobile Search Engine Taptu Now Serves Up 1 Million Searches Daily

By: readwriteweb.com

Taptu, a search engine specializing in mobile searches, just announced that its users now generate more than 1 million searches a day, and that the search engine had about 3.4 million unique users in April. One of the most interesting aspects of Taptu is that it tries to only include mobile-friendly search results in its index. As Microsoft is revving up its mobile search efforts with Bing Mobile, and Google keeps on releasing tweaked versions of its mobile search, Taptu is obviously working in a very crowded market, but the company offers a number of interesting features that its competitors have yet to implement.

Of course, a search engine that doesn’t return good results is useless, no matter how good the interface, but Taptu’s search results are generally good. While focusing on sites that work well on mobile devices is great, it limits the number of results which can often be a disadvantage. Modern phones also tend to be rather good at displaying any web site you throw at them, so Taptu’s advantage here (if it really is one), might only be temporary……..[read entire article]