Taptu in the news

Liau Yun Qing, ZDNet Asia, "The current search experience for mobile users is still very much in its infancy and leaves most "disappointed" […] Ovum underscored the need to support better mobile search tools, such as those provided by Taptu, which only lists sites that are optimised for mobile viewing, or risk losing user eyeball." (October 07, 2009)

Steve Ives, CEO of Taptu, talks to Venturebeat’s Entrepreneur Corner about the "5 Ways to Create a Great Mobile Web Site" (September 28, 2009)

Steve Ives, CEO of Taptu, talks to iMedia Connection about the "5 Guidelines for Marketing on Touch Screens" (September 18, 2009)

AppScout says "Taptu takes full advantage of the iPhone's touch interface, letting users tap for search results, flick through them, and then share with another click." (June 17, 2009)

Scott Merrill, Mobile Crunch, Taptu’s Search App "provides iPhone-friendly search results in a surprisingly intuitive way." (June 16, 2009)

Greg Sterling, Search Engine Land, Taptu’s iPhone App is "the first iPhone-specific search engine. […] You flick or horizontally scroll through preview pages (showing mostly real-time images of the sites) and then touch/click to go to the source page." (June 16, 2009)

Matthew Miller, ZDnet, talks about Taptu’s Search App. "I particularly like the visual previews because I can then see a bit of the result before actually selecting it and going directly to the result. Taptu also incorporates social networking tools and lets you share content (pictures, videos, links, etc.) with friends via Facebook and Twitter." (June 16, 2009)

Peggy Anne Salz, MSearchGroove, "Taptu Takes Gold at Mobile Search Awards: Connecting with Mobile Search Startups You Can't Ignore"

Sky News, Technofile, "Google 10 years: The Future of Online Search Engines" (video)

Robert Scoble, PodTech in Demo of how Taptu is way better than Google for mobiles We do a little test comparing Google to Taptu on a mobile phone. You might be surprised by how much nicer Taptu is for many searches. [...] Came up faster than Google. It's a much nicer experience!

Ricky Cadden, Symbian-Guru.com in Taptu Mobile Search - AWESOME Taptu turns out to be an incredibly handy search tool. [...] You will have it bookmarked in your mobile phone (I'll put money on it). It's a mobile optimized search tool, allowing you to easily find information about a topic from numerous sources.

Pete Barrett at Burning The Bacon "Cuil is cool, but it's not very social or mobile" says "Cuil is cool... but it's not very social. Or Mobile. ... From my perspective, the future of search looks a lot more like Taptu."

Bena Roberts at GoMoNews Lunch with Steve Ives and Bob Last from Taptu

iPhone Mag says Taptu is "A search engine that makes you want to search"

Andrew Grill at London Calling, "Taptu: Getting mobile search right"

Keith Dyer at Mobile Europe, "Mobile search company Taptu aims high"

Peggy Anne Salz at MSearchGroove, "Taptu Makes Mobile Search Social; Does It Go One Better Than Pure PageRank? (Podcast)"

Ernst-Jan Pfauth, The Next Web in Taptu: Mobile social search is Google's Achilles heel After interviewing Ives and trying out the service myself, I can say that Taptu has found Google's Achilles heel. Mobile social search is one of those ideas that seem obvious after somebody explained to you - just like Paul Arden's books. The service is still in early beta, yet when Ives tells about his ambitious plan, I truly believe he can achieve them.

Mike Butcher, TechCrunch UK in Taptu: new search engine, new partner If the future is social search - as many think it is - then the future must also be mobile social search, since the mobile is such a social device.

Susi Weaser, Shiny Shiny in MWC 2008: Taptu give you easy share-y mobile internet searching It's good to see that there are people out there who haven't just accepted Google as the only option when it comes to internet searches. In particular, Taptu have vowed to take on mobile searching, with their easy-peasy service.

Dennis Bournique, WapReview in Taptu I'm impressed with both the quality of Taptu's search results and the mobile site's very good usability on even the less capable mobile browsers". Dennis gave Taptu's early beta version 4/5 stars for Content, and 4/5 stars for Usability.

Nadir Garouche, SEO Principle in Taptu launches new kind of mobile search engine The particularity of Taptu is that it includes rich media, such as videos and audio that you can play right from their search results, which I find really cool.