Search giant Yahoo is beefing up its mobile search presence more than anybody can think of. A few days ago it launched a new service that integrates the functionality of the highly successful web service, Yahoo Answers with its mobile search facility OneSearch. Yahoo answers provide answers to queries provided by Yahoo’s millions of members worldwide while OneSearch gives mobile users instant vital information right into Yahoo’s mobile web portal. Combining these two search interfaces in one useful mobile web portal certainly results in a powerful mobile search facility.

So, when you are stuck somewhere in an unfamiliar place and don’t know where to go, you can simply access Yahoo’s OneSearch portal on your mobile phone and ask for directions on where’s the best place to stay or dine. Yahoo Answers and OneSearch will work together to come up with the most reliable and useful recommendation for you. As an added information to chew on, Yahoo’s OneSearch would even display relevant citations related to your search culled from Wikipedia’s vast information resources.

To get a better grip of how this interplay of Yahoo OneSearch and Answers work, take a look at the sample search results for the OneSearch query “2008 Summer Olympics?” The search result displays links to the Yahoo answers with an added Wikipedia link.

Aside from the improved mobile search, OneSearch also rolled out its flight information search which provides users with specific flight status such as arrivals and departures, delays, and gate assignments.

These improved mobile search capabilities are currently available in major countries aside from the United States.

With these new avenues of search technology, Yahoo may very well be on its way to reclaiming its pre-Google status as one of the web’s major player. That is, if Google won’t catch up with its own mobile web search technology.

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