Comments on: Google’s SMS Search in Ghana and Nigeria

By: Banda Larga móvel atingirá 1 Bilião de usuários em 2011… | OxenTI

Banda Larga móvel atingirá 1 Bilião de usuários em 2011… | OxenTI — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:35:11 +0000

[...] essas contas, uma vez que as operadoras estão a investir nos serviços mais básicos (vide esse serviço da Google via SMS). Fica mais barato e mais pessoas aderem, ou seja, no final as operadoras saem sempre a [...]

By: Emmanuel George

Emmanuel George — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:14:34 +0000

Google thank you 4 remembering Nigeria.

By: Developments in ubiquitous computing « Smart People I Know

Developments in ubiquitous computing « Smart People I Know — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:53:56 +0000

[...] As mobile phones combined with Internet services gain more and more capability, the era of ubiquitous computing will begin, whereby everyone in the world will be able to digitally interconnected. One more step along that path is occurring with Google’s announcement of Google’s SMS Search in Ghana and Nigeria (as reported on the great blog, White African). [...]

By: Nina Chachu

Nina Chachu — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:23:20 +0000

I live in Ghana, and yes it does work – but at the moment only on one of the five mobile networks – Tigo. I still need to try it out a bit more though.

By: Google’s SMS Search in Ghana and Nigeria | White African « mobilefirst.info

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:46:51 +0000

[...] Google’s SMS Search in Ghana and Nigeria | White African Filed under: Africa, Ghana, Google, Nigeria — mobilefirst @ 9:46 am Google’s SMS Search in Ghana and Nigeria | White African. [...]

By: cssProdigy

cssProdigy — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:34:45 +0000

I hope Google will expand some of it’s services to meet the needs of African people.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:11:59 +0000

Very Interesting… I wonder how the Google investment in Mobile Planet will come into play with such services in East Africa and in particular Kenya.

By: adaptive path » blog » Rachel Hinman » Google Brings SMS Search to Ghana and Nigeria

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:50:49 +0000

[...] Google announced a test launch of SMS search in Nigeria and Ghana. According to a post via White African, Nigeria and Ghana are the first two African countries Google’s released this service. In [...]

By: changefeed (changefeed)

changefeed (changefeed) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:24:08 +0000

->@WhiteAfrican: Google’s SMS Search in Ghana and Nigeria http://tinyurl.com/daltlq

By: kiwanja

kiwanja — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:41:02 +0000

I think Google’s approach will be to do what they’ve been doing in other territories – get people ‘hooked’ on their services and then slowly roll out more. What they roll out, where and in what order will likely depend on the network environment, the handset environment and at what points Google Search ‘sticks’.

As you rightly state, always sensible when talking Africa and mobile to start with the lowest common denominator – the text message.