Google and Yahoo! quite clearly dominate Internet search engines but on mobile there’s more scope for a mobile-specific engine to stake a claim for itself.
We recently tried what we thought could be one of the easiest mobile search engines around Taptu, but now there’s another pretender to the crown – Boopsie.
Ignore the odd name, because Boopsie is something different. It uses Smart Prefix to search via short codes. Instead of having to type the whole search term on your phone’s fiddly keypad, Boopsie requires only the first few letters of each search. For instance, “Arctic Monkeys” would simply be “ar mo”.
The potential for incorrect searches is naturally high, but Boopsie reckons its users can reach over 90% of Wikipedia entries in only seven button presses.
To help, Boopsie has organised searches into specific categories like Wikipedia, sports scores, weather, local listings etc, to help make it easier.
Boopsie works on almost any Java handset and pretty much every mobile OS, and the free app can be downloaded from Boopsie.
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