People aren’t just accessing your site from their desktop PCs any more. They aren’t even just searching on Google or Bing. The mobile Internet is exploding and is bringing with it whole new ways of accessing and interacting with the web.
In the early days of WAP phones, the mobile Internet was little more than a novelty. Accessible sites were few and far between, bandwidth was lower than dial up and networks charged extortionate rates for using it. Today, all this has changed.
Mobile phones are more popular, more technically advanced and more connective than they have ever been. The development of smartphones – think the iPhone, Nokia N95, Google Nexus One – have kicked off an evolutionary leap in how we interact mobiles and the specification that they can now offer. Now they have greater memory, larger, higher resolution touch screens and internet connectivity.
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The shift from static to mobile Internet gathers momentum as Eric Schmidt that Google are a ‘mobile first’ company.
No longer satisfied with conquering the static Internet, Google have now announced their intention to do the same with the mobile form. During a keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress, Google’s Chief Executive, Eric Schmidt, announced that their programmers would be “doing work on mobile first”. With the technology, expertise and brand power at their disposal, now is the time to really start taking mobile search advertising seriously.
It’s not only Google moving over to the mobile internet, it is the consumers themselves – in their millions. New devices are flooding the market and providers are increasingly integrating online minutes within their tariffs and contracts. The lines of accessibility, affordability and interest are drawing steadily closer. Mobile search advertising is also a growing market and one that could become hugely lucrative to those who master it first.
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Mobile Marketing is a fast-growing sector, although it currently only accounts for a small proportion of most companies overall marketing spend.
The market is expected to grow rapidly over the next couple of years and will become part of the standard digital marketing plan for many businesses.
With the introduction of the iPhone and smartphones, Mobile Marketing is going to provide marketers with a highly targeted approach, reaching users whilst they are on the move.
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With Google seemingly untouchable in conventional online search, how will they fare in the Mobile market? With Apple favouring Bing on their hugely popular iPhone, could Google suffer a mobile search slide?
Without question, the mobile Internet is going to become an increasingly important battlefield for the major search engines. Google have already announced their intentions with the release of their Android operating system and their first dedicated Google phone, the Nexus One. Last week Apple waded in by announcing their intention to include Bing as the iPhone’s default search browser. So where will it all end?
Google and Apple appear to be at loggerheads over just about everything currently. Microsoft and Google have always enjoyed a frosty relationship with rival products in a wide variety of sectors. But despite the strength of their competitors, Google have always remained relatively unscathed in their core market (search), whilst also gaining footholds elsewhere (Chrome OS, Chrome browser and Android); however, could a massive increase in mobile search scupper them?
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In Stephen Logan’s post of what to look for in search in 2010 he mentioned the developments in the Mobile Search and, specifically, Google Goggles.
Now that Google have released their first mobile phone device ‘Nexus’ powered by its Android operating system, it’ll be fascinating to see how search for mobile phones and the various extended applications develop in this hugely competitive and lucrative area. More…
