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Yahoo! has recently unveiled to the public oneSearch 2.0, the new version of its search engine for mobile devices. The improvements and new features introduced to allow users to search using the text or your own voice, and to obtain more detailed results. With this new product, Yahoo! aims to become the starting point in many mobile consumers. Marco Boerries, Executive Vice President of Connected Life Division Yahoo!, Said:

“With the launch of oneSearch in 2007, we revolutionized mobile search by recreating a specific tool for mobile devices, focusing on the answers and not just the links found on the web in just one year we signed 29 partnerships with operators around the world, covering more than 600 million users. With oneSearch 2.0 radically change the way people use the Internet on their mobile phones. ”

Yahoo! opens oneSearch to publishers and developers, giving them the ability to integrate content that will be displayed in the results of research. The new Open Search should provide a more detailed, giving you a broader picture.

Another remarkable novelty introduced by oneSearch 2.0 is the ability to search using just your voice. Users can search for anything: places, sites, restaurants and much more simply by speaking through a voice-recognition technology developed by vlingo.

Currently you can use the voice feature only in the United States and some Blackberry devices. In the following months the support will be extended to other mobile devices and will be expanded coverage of the service at the international level. Open Search functionality is expected by the end of the second quarter of the year, together with some features search assistant.