Oct 12, 2010 09:19 GMT  ·  By

When it comes to performing online searches on mobile phones, most users act differently than on desktop PCs, especially since they do not always launch a web browser to access information they want over the mobile Internet.

Thus, mobile search engines came up with new solutions to offer mobile phone users fast access to the content and information that is most important to them, and Yahoo! is the latest to announce a series of enhancements it brought to its mobile offering.

Following the launch of a series of new applications for Android users, the company has just announced that it updated Yahoo! Search to better fit the needs of smartphone users.

[ADMAKR=1]“At Yahoo! Search, we’ve learned from user behavior on mobile search and taken a new approach to understanding what you need when you’re on-the-go,” Anil Panguluri, Product Director, Yahoo! Mobile Search & Discovery, states in a recent blog post.

“For our mobile search experience (m.yahoo.com), this means pulling more essential information from the web, and employing the latest HTML5 technology to help you easily browse the content you’re interested in.”

Among the enhancements that were brought to Yahoo! Search on mobile devices, the company lists honed search results for local business listings, entertainment topics, stock information, videos, and images.

The search results for these topics are now packaged so as to offer end users the possibility to find what they are looking for faster and easier.

For example, when searching for a stock quote, one would receive results including charts, news, or data on the company.

Moreover, when searching for a celebrity, one should get photos, news, videos, and more about that celebrity, not to mention that, when searching for a business, one would enjoy a better local mobile search experience than before.

The new solution is already available for Android 2.x phones, as well as for most iPhone users in the United States. Users would be automatically redirected to the new product as soon as they search for various items at http://m.yahoo.com.

“If you are an Android user, you can also search from the Yahoo! Search for Android widget (download it from the Android market on your phone). It is now available in 13 countries, and you can speak your query in English, Spanish, and Bahasa Indonesia,” Anil Panguluri states.

Additionally, the company announced plans roll out the new Yahoo! mobile experience to more devices, while also bringing it to more countries around the world.

Not to mention that the currently existing Yahoo! mobile apps are bound to be improved, and that newer applications should arrive from the company too.