Ask Goes Mobile

They got there eventually....

[trillianjedi]

[mobile.ask.com...]

It uses Skweezer to reduce page bloat. That includes your ads.

Designed to minimize keystrokes, increase navigability on small displays and accelerate page loads, Ask Mobile offers a special interface and search tools to help searchers find what they are looking for faster. The announcement was made at DigitalLife, a consumer event in New York City dedicated to educating consumers on what the digital lifestyle means in every aspect of life - at work, home and play.

TJ

[jtara]

What? Not .mobi? ;)

[lexipixel]

I had a customer email me last week say she was afraid she was "missing the land rush" for .mobi domains...

I told her not to bother. In my opinion, the TLD ".mobi" will fizzle and/or be swamped with spam sites like .biz, .info, .ect...

As long as web capable phones, pda, etc.. can display a ".com", the .mobi is just another money maker for dom regs and possibly a few pennies for MFA sqatter types.

Opposing opinions?

[trillianjedi]

Back to the topic at hand, I'm surprised at the lack of interest in this development.

Isn't this just another form of dynamic content scraping?

TJ

[fischermx]

ask.mobi is a premium name, which means is not available for purchase yet.
I guess they could not take it in the trademarks period since they don't hold a trademark on that name, so it was put in the premium list.
So, ask.com will have to compete amongst other domainers to get his .mobi version.