Yahoo poised to take the mobile lead

Updated: 4/1/2007

After some extra digging, Jamptap found out that Yahoo, Inc. has a number of other (very recent) content partnerships with WordDial that include a listing on their 36245.com (EMAIL), 2428.com (CHAT), 6277.com (MAPS), 102378.com (10 BEST), 7678257.com (PORTALS), 3473284667.com (DIRECTIONS), 462437.com (IMAGES) [Flickr is now the only link on the 746867.com (PHOTOS) portal; both Flickr and Yahoo Image Search are linked on the 74288737.com (PICTURES) portal], 6397.com (NEWS) pages and possibly others. It appears that Yahoo apparently didn't want to pay top dollar for a directory listing on WordDial's EMAIL page because YahooMail is listed 2nd after GMail (Google Mail). (To the best of our memory, YahooMail wasn't listed on WordDial's EMAIL page when we checked last month.) Also, the YahooMail link doesn't resolve to the YahooMail mobile page, but the YahooMail html page; perhaps that'll be fixed soon.

The domain number, also known as word number, for GMail (46245.com) is owned by Google, but is a dead link; so is the word number 4664536245.com (GoogleMail). The word numbers for YMail and YahooMail are not owned by Yahoo, but may be owned by proxy. The 3rd listing on WordDial's EMAIL page, Hotmail, whose word number is 4686245.com, is owned by WordDial and is forwarded to the EMAIL page. The Hotmail link resolves to the MSN Mobile page.

What is exciting is that the email services of the big three search engine companies (Microsoft, Google and Yahoo) can be easily accessed - for the first time ever - at one place on a mobile phone. Just type in 36245.com (EMAIL) in your mobile browser and pick your email service.

Also, WordDial, via its 7th acquisition fund - similar to venture capital funds - registered 663732724.com (ONESEARCH) on March 20, 2007, just one day after Yahoo officially announced the news of its new search application (OneSearch). When you type in 663732724.com in your mobile browser, it resolves to WordDial's SEARCH (732724.com) portal. Note that onesearch.com, which is owned by Yahoo, Inc., currently resolves to a 404 (error) page.