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Yahoo on Wednesday said it would add voice-enabled search to its mobile platform and rolled out a diagnostic test version of the approaching service as a download for users of Research In Motion's blackberry smartphone.

The new characteristic will be portion of which the company programs to revolve out to mobile telephone makers in the summer. The ascent was unveiled at the CTIA Radio conference in Las Vegas.

OneSearch was more than than a twelvemonth ago as Yahoo's hunt platform for mobile phones. The ascent betters on the original version by introducing voice-enabled searches, as well as characteristics that present more than information to questions than just links.

Marco Boerries, president of Yokel Mobile, demonstrated OneSearch 2.0 during his CTIA keynote. Yokel anticipates to do the service available directly on the place silver screen of choice French telephones through trades with manufacturers. Nokia have already committed to offering the service on its Series 60 phones, Boerries said. The application also would be available as a download on the Web for some phones, such as as those running play Microsoft's Windows Mobile. blackberry users could download the application as of Wednesday.

To entree the voice service, a individual would only have got to force the telephone call button on the telephone and state a word or phrase to Yahoo's machine-controlled service to acquire consequences shipped to the phone. During the demo, saying "British Airways 287" got reaching times, "March Madness" got a listing of tons for games played during the college basketball game tournament, and "3600 Las Vegas Boulevard" led to a street map and directions.

Asking the inquiry "Where's the best topographic point to play snake eyes in Vegas?" returned posters on the subject from Yokel Answers, a forum in which users inquire inquiries of other users. "We give you better replies than just Web links," Boerries said.

Yahoo also improved the "search assist" by showing possible consequences immediately as a individual types a query. The consequences also contained more than than just links. Results could include lists for news stories, graphics, and other content. Listings would also include a few words describing the available content.

If the hunt affects looking for a person, then the consequences would include those societal webs in which the person's name is listed.

Yahoo bes after to do money from OneSearch and other mobile services, such as as e-mail and instantaneous messaging, through advertising. Last August, a German advertisement company that supplies software system that inserts advertisements in content for mobile devices.

To drive adoption, Yokel have taken an unfastened attack in which users can access services from other portals through Yahoo's mobile platform.

Yahoo foretells that by 2010, there will be more than than four modern times as many mobile devices in the human race than PCs, Boerries said. In time, more than people will access the cyberspace through a mobile device than a PC. Today, however, people are 10 modern times more likely to utilize a personal computer than a mobile device.