Yahoo said its new service is available across all the major wireless carriers at no charge for consumers. However, wireless carriers may charge fees for receiving text messages on a mobile handset. For example, a user could search for information about San Franciscos Slanted Door restaurant on a PC and then click on a link to send the address and telephone number to a mobile phone. The message goes via SMS -- or short message services, a form of text messaging offered by all major mobile phone carriers in the United States and in most other countries . The move comes amid intense competition in the Web search market. Google in October rolled out a test service that allows people to use mobile phones or handheld devices to tap Googles Web search via SMS. Also, Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN.O: Quote, Profile, Research) late on Wednesday announced a local search service that uses voice over Internet protocol, or VoIP, to directly connect users to businesses they have located via Amazons A9 Web search service.
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