Yahoo! Everywhere and Google Join forces
to offer award-winning Search technology
to wireless internet users
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-April 10, 2001- Google Inc.,
developer of the award-winning Google search engine, today announced
that Yahoo! Inc. has integrated Google's fast and highly relevant
wireless search technology into its wireless offerings. In addition
to retrieving personalized content and services, on-the-go Yahoo!
users can now take advantage of the Google search engine to browse
and access Internet web pages from any web-enabled mobile phone.
Available via web-enabled phones across the United States,
Yahoo! features Google's WAP search service, which enables users
to search and browse more than 2.2 million WML and HDML pages
contained in Google's WAP search engine index. Ideal for mobile
users, the service enables users to manage their wireless and
mobile communication needs from one convenient location. Additionally,
Google provides Yahoo! users the power to view millions of HTML
web pages. Google's proprietary search technology automatically
converts HTML web pages into a format optimized for WAP phones.
"Yahoo! has the largest global mobile audience and we
are pleased to offer that audience Google's superior search technology
as a complement to the Yahoo! Directory," said Anurag Mendhekar,
director, Yahoo! Everywhere. "Yahoo! Everywhere is focused
on working closely with companies like Google to develop innovative
and compelling mobile data services for consumers."
"As an extension to our existing partnership with Yahoo!,
Google and Yahoo! Everywhere are enabling wireless users to take
advantage of the world's largest web search index anytime, and
just about everywhere," said Sergey Brin, Google's president
and co-founder. "Together, we are providing the most comprehensive
source for finding the right information on the web. As the web
gets larger, Google scales and performs better, offering users
the most advanced search experience available today both on the
desktop and beyond."
The award-winning Google search engine serves more than 70
million searches per day, with approximately half of these searches
performed on the company's home page at http://www.google.com.
Google also offers a wide variety of custom search service products
and currently provides its search technology to more than 100
companies in 30 countries. Customers include Yahoo! and its international
properties; NEC Corp., developers of BIGLOBE, a leading Japanese
portal; and NetEase, one of the largest portals in China. Wireless
partners include OmniSky, Nextel, Palm Inc. and Pixo. In addition
to its growing roster of international companies, the Google
search engine is available in 26 languages, and can be accessed
from WAP-ready, Palm, and i-mode
wireless devices.
About Google Inc.
With the largest index of websites available on the World Wide
Web and the industry's most advanced search technology, Google
Inc. delivers the fastest and easiest way to find relevant information
on the Internet. Google's technological innovations have earned
the company numerous industry awards and citations, including
two Webby Awards; WIRED magazine's Reader Raves Award; Best Internet
Innovation and Technical Excellence Award from
PC Magazine; Best Search Engine on the Internet from Yahoo! Internet
Life; Top Ten Best Cybertech fromTIME magazine; and Editor's
Pick from CNET. A growing number of companies worldwide, including
Yahoo!, AOL/Netscape, and Cisco Systems, rely on Google to power
search on their websites. A privately held company based in Mountain
View, Calif., Google's investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield
& Byers and Sequoia Capital. More information about Google
can be found on the Google site at http://www.google.com.
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