CC'ing mobile-l@ to keep them in the loop. This really argues in favor of improving our overall search experience through both google and our own search. I'm really glad that were paying more attention to both.
For those in our beta we have our next search improvement coming out tomorrow. Full screen search for the beta. We think this really improves the experience and allows users to focus on what their doing better then ever before.
--tomasz
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Philip Chang pchang@wikimedia.org wrote:
This is very interesting. Actually supports both strategic objectives of Global South and overall growth of mobile page views.
In other words, India is great for us to focus on.
Phil
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Mani Pande mpande@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thought this will interest all of you....
In fact, about 40 per cent of search queries for Google India comes from mobile phones as against US (14), UK (6) and Russia (11), saidhttp://www.business-standard.com/india/news/mobile-search-queries-highestindia-at-google/456686/ Rajan Anandan, managing director of Google India during a speaker session at 'Confluence 2011' on Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) campus
http://www.alootechie.com/news/40-search-queries-google-india-come-mobile-ph...
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