Mobile search and advertising startup Jumptap is getting more VC. AT&T, which is a Jumptap partner, is about answer the Google-Verizon deal with a new deal with Jumptap….

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1) Google Search – returns the stuff I’d expect on the internet. SO i would never search for ‘tylenol’ i’d search for ‘drug store’ on google maps (hat tip to niraj)

2) jumptap search – returns first the ads that have been bought (there’s no side bar on mobile), so first i’m clicking through ads from BS ringtone companies and dodgy subscription scams. Then i’m sorting through results that are ‘on deck’ at the phone companies home page. Yah the phone company’s home page sure has lots about tylenol. Then MAYBE after 10 pages i’m looking at what? google results?

This is ridiculous. These guys have raised so much money. THey should aim for another target. Maybe build an electric car with all that cash!

Are you sure they said “control”, I think they said accessible. Actually, I know that was/is the company mission.

Google IS NOT A MONOPOLY in its consumer focused business, you can search from any other search engine you want any time. I don’t use their site to search.

The carriers have screwed with consumers forever:
1) charg(ed) for ringtones
2) SMS at $0.05-0.25 per
3) crippled bluetooth so as to be mostly useless for data synch
4) made voicemail so stupid you could only access it by calling in and using the IVR, which sucked and ate up minutes (VisualVmail is on the way, thanks to apple)
5) Make two year contracts the only reasonable decision (this is called LOCK-IN!)
Need I go on?

If “JTAP” is aligned so closely with the carriers, then they condone this type of behavior.

Actually, Google has said they want the world’s info to be accessible Big difference. Has google been making it hard for you to get info?

The carriers have screwed with consumers forever:
1) charg(ed) for ringtones
2) SMS at $0.5-0.25 per
3) crippled bluetooth so as to be mostly useless for data synch
4) made voicemail so stupid you could only access it by calling in and using the IVR, which sucked and ate up minutes (VisualVmail is on the way, thanks to apple)
5) Make two year contracts the only reasonable decision (this is called LOCK-IN!)

Need I go on?

If “JTAP” is aligned so closely with the carriers, then they condone this type of behavior.

Google IS NOT A MONOPOLY in its consumer focused business, you can search from any other search engine you want any time. I don’t use their site to search.

That’s when I’d use Google Maps Mobile with GPS. Why try to make mobile search try to answer that question? They’re different tools with different purposes, and trying to combine them is going to make you lose what’s useful in one or the other.

Actually, Google has said they want the world’s info to be accessible Big difference. Has google been making it hard for you to get info?

The carriers have screwed with consumers forever:
1) charg(ed) for ringtones
2) SMS at $0.5-0.25 per
3) crippled bluetooth so as to be mostly useless for data synch
4) made voicemail so stupid you could only access it by calling in and using the IVR, which sucked and ate up minutes (VisualVmail is on the way, thanks to apple)
5) Make two year contracts the only reasonable decision (this is called LOCK-IN!)

Need I go on?

If “JTAP” is aligned so closely with the carriers, then they condone this type of behavior.

Google IS NOT A MONOPOLY in its consumer focused business, you can search from any other search engine you want any time. I don’t use their site to search.

Actually, dipshit, they said they want the world’s info to be accessible Big difference. Has google been making it hard for you to get info?

The carriers have screwed with consumers forever:
1) charg(ed) for ringtones
2) SMS at $0.5-0.25 per
3) crippled bluetooth so as to be mostly useless for data synch
4) made voicemail so stupid you could only access it by calling in and using the IVR, which sucked and ate up minutes (VisualVmail is on the way, thanks to apple)
5) Make two year contracts the only reasonable decision (this is called LOCK-IN!)

Need I go on?

If “JTAP” is aligned so closely with the carriers, then they condone this type of behavior.

Google IS NOT A MONOPOLY in its consumer focused business, you can search from any other search engine you want any time. I don’t use their site to search.

“keyphrase multichannel” blah blah blah

You better get a job or be on disability or something.

I think they have a much wider picture of what they want than what we think

people are being google trained by the willing, unwilling and unwitting. all will change when will the googolian sheep demand payment for there eyeballs.

Yeah, so Jumptap will give all personal usage data to ATT in an effort to replace google?

If
Jumptap = carrier love, and
people = carrier hate, and
google = people love, then
Jumptap = people hate

Carriers will have:
location data
friend data
commercial interest data
what else???

I sense Jumptap will fail by following yahoo’s footsteps and shoving flashy, agency produced ads in your face b/c they pay the best. Instead of what people want.

Darin