LONDON, BUSINESS WIRE -- Julian Pasin, leading visiongain telecoms analyst and one of the judging panelist said of MSA 08; 'the high quality of services and innovation on offer from all the participants made judging the awards an arduous task but ultimately bears testament to the rapid growth and evolution of mobile search. We congratulate all participants on the strides they are making for mobile search.' 

Overall event winner, Bob Last, co-Founder of Taptu said: "We are delighted to be the overall winner of the Mobile Search Awards. We were competing against some of the biggest players in the industry and the fact the judges commented on Taptu's faster engine and its great user experience was fantastic. It's an honour to be recognised by the judges and we are also very grateful to our user community who continue to spread the word about Taptu.com to their friends." The event MC was Tony Riley, CEO of Mobile Enterprise Ltd who entertained the guests with the topicality of his hosting. Guests presenting the awards at the MSAs included Jussi-Pekka Partanen, Nokia's head of mobile search and Peggy Anne Salz, founder and chief analyst of M-SearchGroove. Guava, gold winners for the 'Search engine optimization award' were thrilled with their prize, "We're delighted to have Guava's work for Just the Flight Mobile recognised at this year's Mobile Search Awards. We pride ourselves on being at the forefront of our industry and mobile is increasingly important to our clients so it's fantastic to have our work in this area recognised" said Lucy Cokes, Director of Guava. Visiongain are proud to announce that the winners at the Mobile Search Awards 2008 are as follows: Best entertainment or information service Gold - IMImobile Silver - Clickatell Bronze - Thumbplay Search engine optimization award Gold - Guava Silver - Puretech Internet Pvt. Ltd Bronze - Red Clay Interactive Best advertising or marketing service Gold - mcn Silver - JumpTap Bronze - Kooaba Award for best technology innovation - software Gold - Kannuu Silver - io global Bronze - Alabot Award for best multimodal search service Gold - Novauris Silver - call genie Bronze - V - Enable Most innovative business model Gold - Mobily Silver - askmoby.com Bronze - Admob Best location based search award Gold - Yell Silver - Telmap Bronze - Oxynade Award for best content discovery experience on device Gold - Gracenote Silver - Kiboo S A for Moblr Bronze - Veveo Overall mobile search company of the year Taptu For press photos of the MSA 2008 please click on: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24757087@N02/sets/72157607357566555/ Note for editors: Visiongain is one of the fastest growing and most innovative independent media companies in Europe.

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