Yahoo extends mobile phone search

Yahoo Inc. launched a new Internet search system for mobile phone users in Europe and Canada on Thursday, designed to provide locally relevant answers. Reuters reports.

"The service, which went live in the United States in March, now covers Britain, Spain, Italy, Germany, France and Canada.

With this service, if a user wants to look for pizza restaurants nearby, he or she can type "pizza" into the search box on a handset and obtain a list of local restaurants as well as phone numbers with a click-to-call feature, the distances to locations and ratings, Yahoo said.

The service, dubbed oneSearch, also provides news, images, local weather and financial updates.

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