Mobile is about a $435MM industry. It is expected to grow to $3-4B in the next 5 years or so. I see a lot of talk about the iPhone, but the truth is they do not make up the majority of phones. All this noise brought me to wonder how are people using mobile around the country and the world.

While I was in San Francisco a month ago, I was going the meet some folks at a restaurant. Not knowing it's location, I looked it up on my blackberry. First with Yahoo! Go's oneSearch, then with Google and could not find it. I then used Live Search from MS, and got it. As I use the three mobile search apps, I find my experience in the inverse of what I have on a PC. Since it is all evolving, I am not going to pick just one (yet). But I do find that Live Search does better for me. But this leads to to wonder about things beyond my experience.

How do you use your mobile... what kind of searches, which applications, do you have a preference for apps based on what you are doing, how often?

I would like to hear about how you are using mobile search. No survey (that presumes I actually know what questions to ask you). Just free flowing email to me. If you can grab a screen shot of your app, send that along. When I have a bunch of input, I'll post on it. (I know the audience here is a bit skewed).

This post is being duplicated on the SEMPO Global Blog (www.sempoglobalsearchblog.com) and on my blog (Blog.ThinkAboutSearch.com).

Please email replies to: Steve.Haar@ThinkAboutSearch.com.