Like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Live Search formatted for mobile devices, AOL offers its own search outlet for handhelds. And like a number of other competing companies on the Web today, AOL is now offering its own mobile option geared specifically for use on Apple’s iPhone.
When using your iPhone’s Safari browser, input of the ‘search.aol.com’ URL will drive AOL’s servers to automatically recognize the software program you’re using and deliver the search portal fashioned in a way that best utilizes the screen’s real estate. [img src="http://sale-online.click/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/aoliphone.jpg" caption="" credit="" alt="aoliphone"]You will find that a mix AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is present on the results page.
Having given the new release a test on my own device, I found the new front to AOL’s mobile search site appealing. It’s simply laid out, easy to navigate, and the ability to rather quickly venture to the image results page, or expand and collapse lists of results (though the logical utility of doing so is somewhat beyond me, to be frank). There’s nothing at all too complex about it. Some might even say it is too simple, though one could perhaps chalk any such impression up to fact that the service sports only a Web search option. If AOL were to, say, follow in Google’s stead and deliver quick links to AOL Mail and other productivity applications. (I also must say that the outline of the iPhone-specific service looks very much like Microsoft’s own offerings, if only toned differently.)