Proximic's iPhone app looks to advance search field
December 2 2008 - 6:19 pm ET | Colin Gibbs | RCR Wireless News
The already crowded field of mobile-search providers just got a little more packed.
Proximic, a San Francisco- and Munich, Germany-based online search company, rolled out its first iPhone application, launching a language-independent offering that uses touchscreens and identifies blocks of text instead of the keywords more established search engines focus on. The free offering, dubbed Proximic Agents, allows users to enter dozens of words or highlight large blocks of text from Web pages to find the most relevant and similar results.
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