The service is like the yellow pages, giving phone numbers, film timings and theatres, currency conversion with latest exchange rates, even the local weather. The search engine will also keep a track of your queries, so after a while it knows what you like looking for and only send you the most relevant answers. The price of these messages will be decided by the mobile phone carriers.

Google isn’t the only one offering such information. Sulekha.com, another Internet portal, has jumped into the mobile fray. “The search service will have the ability to ‘read’ the users’ search need and provide results on the basis of a category-based search, business name search and businesses in a specific area,” says Satya Prabhakar, CEO of the site. A local business will also be registered with the site and yellow pages, and this information will be available on phone, but only through WAP.