Startups take on Google in mobile search
Search business ripe for overhaul as people use mobile phones differently from desktop PCs
San Francisco
EUROPE'S competition regulator filed antitrust charges against Google on the belief that the company's search business had become so powerful that it was pretty much impossible to compete with. But don't tell that to Bobby Lo.
Mr Lo is the founder of Vurb, a startup in San Francisco's bustling downtown that has a new kind of search engine designed for mobile phones. The idea is to take several common queries - restaurants, movies - and group them into snippets of information and apps for related actions.
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