Sprint + Microsoft = Moble Search
For those of you who were wondering where Microsoft's mobile search service would end up, here is one place.
Sprint Nextel Corp. on Tuesday began offering an enhanced search service through Microsoft Corp. that allows its phone users to find nearby businesses through the phones' built-in location-based technology.
Typing in a term, such as "pizza," delivers a list of links, including nearby pizza shops, even without a zip code or other address information. Selecting a link pulls up a map to the location and allows the user to call the shop's phone number.
The process could be simplified further through the voice-recognition software also being offered Tuesday for download on certain Sprint phones. It uses technology picked up in Microsoft's acquisition earlier this year of Tellme Networks Inc.
In that case, users just say "pizza" and the search engine does its work.
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