I checked Wapedia with some keywords related to the MuLiMob Event this week in London… it’s simple and it works!
Wapedia – the mobile encyclopedia is a service from Florian Amrhein and exists since august 2004. Wapedia brings the content of Wikipedia to mobile devices like mobile phones or PDAs, so the articles are licensed under the GNU FDL license.
For example I searched on the word “Crammed”, for Crammed Discs – 5,210,000 entries in Google, but luckily tagged correctly in Wikipedia. Below the results on screen.
Wikipedia internal links work perfectly, the trouble starts when you get out of course. Nearly NO websites are adapted for mobile web browsing yet, there’s still a lot of work ahead! It also convinced me again that web 2.0 is definately going to be important for mobile web browsing development.
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[...] In fact, Taptu bought one of the earliest mobile search apps around (I blogged about it 2 years ago here), and is thus, amongst others, crawling the wikipedia index for results. Steve came introducing his new technology – as he calls it Social-assisted Search, at MobileMonday Barcelona in April on a panel with Google, Yahoo! and JumpTap on Mobile Search. I remember thinking one needs a lot of guts and talent to start with such an adventure and such a competition in sight… meanwhile Taptu secured an A-round of funding and has 30 people working on the technology in Cambridge. Russell commented yesterday that it might be kind-a late to enter the Mobile Search market but I give them a fair chance. [...]