Yahoo had recently introduced on a new Internet search system for mobile phone users, which delivers locally applicable answers, a move that jumps it ahead of what rival Google now offers.

"We are now putting search on every mobile phone that has a browser," said Marco Boerries, senior vice president of Yahoo's Connected Life business unit. "We are delivering the results consumer's desire with just one search, not a list of Web links."

Yahoo that has been playing to catch up to Google in computer Web search, has been creating strides these days to go beyond its rival in the fast emerging mobile Web market.