Mobile Web Browsing and Search - Microsoft Deepfish launches

If you have used Opera Mini to browse from your Mobile, you know Microsoft Deepfish already!. With Deepfish you get a much better and faster rendering of web pages on your mobile.

Microsoft DeepFish, Opera Mini and Bitstream ThunderHawk uses powerful proxy servers to squeeze and optimize the content before delivering it onto a specialized mobile client. That means you not using the default browser for browsing purpose. The default mobile browsers can only optimally request for gZip content from regular web servers. There are other solutions like Skweezer , Google Mobile , MobileLeap and WebWarper which works with the default web browsers. On a Pocket PC or Windows Mobile you can use specialized browser add-ons like PIEPlus or MultiIE to use the above said services seamlessly with Pocket Internet Explorer(PIE). But the advantage of having a specialized client is obvious.

Yahoo has taken a giant stride on Mobile Browsing and Mobile Searching market with the launch of Yahoo Go! 2.0. Apart from mobilizing the regular pages on a multitude of mobile platforms, they offer an integrated way to search the image, video and local content - called as OneSearch. Yahoo has partnered with Opera Mini to act as the default search provider replacing Google.

Not to be left behind Google has recently released a new mobile search service. It features personalized home page with weather, news, stocks and movie information with local preferences.

Microsoft’s initiative with Deepfish shall naturally integrate with the Windows Live Search for Mobile Services. It would be awesome to see all the Microsoft Live! Services accessible through the DeepFish with a similar desktop experience.

Hopefully we shall see Microsoft DeepFish replacing Pocket Internet Explorer (PIE) as the default browser on Windows Mobile 7.