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Custom PDA WebSearch

Google's Custom PDA WebSearch service provides access to its world-class, award-winning web search services directly from users' PDAs. The easy-to-use technology automatically breaks up the search results into several smaller pages, connected by "more" buttons. This means PDA users can access web pages using lower bandwidth, increasing peformance.

Custom PDA WebSearch Features

Hosted solution	Google offers a hosted solution that allows your visitors to conduct web and specialty searches on your site, with the results provided within your own template. Results are available via HTTP and can be formatted in XML.
Unique search algorithm	Google's PageRank technology is the heart of our search technology. It evaluates the complex link structure of the web to determine which results are most relevant to your user's query.
Customizable interface	You can easily customize the look and feel so that your site's search results have a unique appearance. Change the font, the colors, or any aspect of the formatting--you have complete control. Partners can also serve advertising on the custom pages.
Snippets	Results listings show dynamically generated fragments of text from each web site found that include the search text optimized for the PDA. This helps users better predict if that result will answer their question.
Targeted advertising	With Google's Custom PDA WebSearch, you can sell your own keyword advertising. For example, you could sell a florist ad on pages returned when your users search for "flowers".
Similar pages	For each result, users are able to use Google's similar pages technology to find other pages related to that page. Partners can re-brand this feature as they see appropriate.
Regular index updates	All PDA WebSearch licensees receive index updates on a regular basis to ensure fresh content.
Growing index	Google searches over more than a billion pages, the largest search index on the web. And Google's index is continuously scrubbed to eliminate duplicate URLs and links that no longer exist.
Advanced search	Users can narrow their search to a specific domain/subdomain or search for results in a specific language. Google also supports OR, phrase searching if quotations are used and Google can exclude key words returned in the result set.
Detailed reporting	Google offers reports on daily number of queries, top queries, top keywords searched, and other information.
Service and support	We offer technical support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Custom PDA WebSearch Add-on Options

SafeSearch filtering	Google's family filter eliminates search results with inappropriate content. Google offers two versions of this filter: Regular SafeSearch and Strong SafeSearch. Strong SafeSearch blocks a larger set of URLs and applies a stricter interpretation of inappropriate material. To see an implementation of regular SafeSearch, set your preferences on the Google.com website.
Foreign language restricted search results	Offer your users search results in the languages of your choice: Chinese (Simplified) - Chinese (Traditional) - Czech - Danish - Dutch - English - Estonian - Finnish - French - German - Greek - Hebrew - Hungarian - Icelandic - Italian - Japanese - Korean - Latvian - Lithuanian - Norwegian - Polish - Portuguese - Romanian - Russian - Spanish - Swedish
Specialty searches or vertical searches	With Google, you can quickly and easily create different slices of your index for your different users. (Including search: by specific language, by country domain, by topic, by customized URLs submitted to Google.) Google can create a search in a specific vertical area (e.g., computers or travel) without a list of specific URLs. This option makes it easier to ensure your customers only see results related to the topic of your website.

Current Customer List

Google currently licenses its WebSearch to over 130 different partners. Specific PDA / pager customers include: Palm, Omnisky, Handspring, and GoAmerica (RIM Pagers). For a more detailed list of customers, please see our partner page.

PDA WebSearch Pricing

The pricing for Google's PDA WebSearch services is based upon an upfront search service fee and a CPM (cost per thousand results sets delivered). Additional customizations and add-on options are extra. For a custom proposal, please wireless-sales@google.com.