Ask.com Offering Mobile GPS On Mobile Phones

Interactive Corp recently announced that Ask.com started offering a web search service that would let people find shops and services based on their location in just a matter of seconds.

The mobile GPS service called “Ask Mobile GPS” was made available on Ask’s website last Friday. Ask Mobile GPS will be available to Sprint Nextel wireless customers that have a qualifying phone (7 Models are currently supported.) and are willing to pay an additional $9.99 monthly.

“The Web has evolved to being an essential daily tool in people’s lives and that doesn’t stop when you leave the house,” Ask.com Chief Executive Jim Lanzone said in an interview ahead of the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit in New York next week.

“Up to 30 to 40 percent of what is done on the Web could move to mobile,” Lanzone said. “At the end of the day, everyone needs to go mobile. But being early in the game can help lock people in for the long term.”

Also in the works are location based advertising, so if a person is looking for a flower store in the area the phone will give directions and a coupon, letting advertisers know just how the customers found them.

Do you like the idea of being able to get coupons on your phone?

Reuters