This week at the consumer electronics show, Yahoo made a direct chellenge to Google’s Android open plantform for developers. I have been a proponent of Yahoo’s strategy to develop content and applications vs. Googles approach to an open platform that relies on developers. It appears that Yahoo is taking a very comprehensive approach. Yahoo has an open platform for the development of mobile widgets that can be load from the mobile Go 3.0 (new release).

For search, this increases the likelihood that Yahoo will have the advantage. If they can continue to develop mobile apps that keep the users in their apps and close to their search, they have the ability box out other search engines.