Yahoo! Inc. announced the debut of a new suite of search services for mobile users at the CTIA conference today. As part of Yahoo!'s commitment to extending its leading services beyond the desktop, this new search offering enables mobile consumers to search for local information, images and Web resources on mobile devices. The service launches today on Yahoo!'s wireless Internet portal on several major carriers across the United States.

"The launch of Yahoo! Search for mobile is a crucial step in providing consumers with a new and powerful point of access to our search products," said Dan Rosensweig, chief operating officer for Yahoo! Inc. "With the launch of Yahoo! Search for mobile devices, we've taken our expertise in providing mobile Internet services and our Yahoo! Search Technology, and combined that with our understanding of consumer's wants and needs. We are empowering consumers to get what they want, how they want it, when they want it and where they want it."

Yahoo! Search has created a new mobile Web search experience for consumers, on multiple devices and across multiple networks, that is easy to use, and presented in a full-color, graphical way. Yahoo! Search now brings relevant, comprehensive and useful information to the mobile environment for consumers on the go. Consumers can get started using the service on a data-enabled mobile device by going to Yahoo!'s Mobile Internet site or simply typing in mobile.yahoo.com. For more information on carrier and device availability from the desktop go to http://mobile.yahoo.com.

See the link below for the full press release.