Yahoo: SMS Search Yahoo from Your Cellular Phone

Contributor Icon Contributed by davak Date Icon July 9, 2005  
Tag Icon Tagged: Internet

You have your cell phone and need to know some directions? On your mobile phone and trying to cheat at trivia? Yahoo’s SMS search can help.

    Text message your search queries to 92466 (spells out yahoo). I believe cingular, t-mobile, sprint, and verizon currently work.

    Local Search
    type or name of business + zipcode
    example: 20515 bank -> banks in Washington, DC

    Weather-
    Examples for weather in Washington, DC:
    [list]w 20515
    Weather 20515
    Weather Washington DC
    W Washington DC

Definitions-
Example of definition for love:

    Define love
    D love
    Definition love

Stock Quotes-
Example of stock quotes on microsoft:

    Quote MSFT
    Q MSFT
    Stock MSFT

Find WiFi Spots-
Example of wifi in Washington, DC

    Wifi Washington, DC
    Wifi 20515

Find Zip Code-
Example of zip code in Washington, DC

    Zip Code Washington, DC

Find Area Codes-
Example of Washington, DC area codes

    202
    Area Code 202
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  • MickeyMouse
    If you would like to play with this service, you can demo it here:

    http://mobile.yahoo.com/search/smsdemo
  • Anonymous
    4INFO (shortcode 44636) has a similar text message offering, but provides several additional services that Yahoo! does not: sports scores ("packers" "nfl"), fantasy stats ("brett favre" "priest holmes"), movie times ("movies 92111"), flight times ("swa san jose san diego") and a beta version of mobile download search. All these services can be accessed via SMS (44636), WAP at http://wap.4INFO.net, or email to search@4INFO.net.

    Why 4INFO instead of Yahoo?
    “Both of the major Web search players, Google and Yahoo!, should not feel confident that they can leverage their brands so easily on mobile. These giants could learn a few good lessons from the smaller, lesser-known 4Info…”
    - Wireless Business Forecast, 7/14/2005
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