deCarta Mobile Search
Location-based software firm deCarta has announced the launch of deCarta Mobile Search, a “brandable local search alternative” to traditional channels like Google or Yahoo. While the Mobile Search engine provides maps, routing, address search, directions and other navigational functions similar to other engines, deCarta says it is different in three main ways:
- Content can be added or aesthetically managed by operators, handset manufacturers and/or directory providers.
- Spatial search algorithms enables users to find more relevant points of interest than traditional search engines.
- “Write once, run anywhere.”
Expanding on that final point: deCarta Mobile Search is an application more than an “engine”. Developed in Javascript and able to run inside World Wide Web Consortium compliant widget runtime frameworks, the deCarta engine can run on most handsets.
European T-Mobile customers will be the first to test deCarta with a 4th quarter launch planned in Germany, the United Kingdom, Austria and the Netherlands.
