Text-Based Search Market Heats Up

According to RCR Wireless News, Google isn’t the only game in town when it comes to text-based search on cell phones. (This is in contrast to mobile search as a whole, where Google and Yahoo reign much like on desktop PCs.) The report said that ChaCha claims to have delivered search results to 1 million users since its launch earlier this year, answering more than 27 million queries via text message—results that Nielsen Mobile backs up.

Google is still the top player here, too.

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