Case Study: Sizing the Mobile Search Market

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Client:

A large search engine

Challenge:

  • Cannibalization of desktop search
  • Improving the relevancy of mobile search results
  • Scoping the size of an undefined future market
  • New revenue sharing model

Solution:

The Cote Collaborative helped in designing a three month pilot test that provided users with a mobile search environment similar to what users would find two years in the future.This meant building customer a test device, creating a faster network, and building custom applications as well as collecting and analyzing the data.

Result:

Within three months of delivering our results, the client

  • Began testing a new service model with advertisers
  • Acquired two companies with the technology to facilitate the new vision
  • Began sharing their new revenue models with future partners

Recently our client stated that revenue from mobile search will one day outpace revenue from desktop search.

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