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Yahoo Local Search Goes Mobile

PC World is reporting that Yahoo! has gone mobile. In an effort to attract the eyes and fingers of more mobile users to their services, Yahoo! has launched their new mobile service which will send you queried results via a text message sent to your mobile phone.

Yahoo this week rolled out a new feature in its local search service that lets users send results from their PCs to mobile phones, the company says.

At Yahoo Local, which is a directory of business listings, users can search for restaurants in Denver, Colorado, or for dentists in Philadelphia. Now, they can send Yahoo Local results as a text message to their mobile phones directly from their PCs by clicking on a new “send to phone” button that accompanies every listing.

The service is available only in the U.S. to subscribers of mobile services provided by the recently merged Cingular Wireless/AT&T Wireless, Verizon Communications, T-Mobile USA, and Sprint and Nextel Communications, which are in the process of merging. Phones have to support SMS (Short Message Service).

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Yahoo will not charge for the service, but the carriers may apply fees on their end for receiving the text messages. In October of last year, Yahoo introduced a service for querying its search engine, including Yahoo Local, from mobile devices.

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