Exalead, Dailymotion and Netvibes available on iPhone

Apple and Orange have officially announced that the French iPhone should be available on November 29 but a major French start-up did not wait for the launch to reveal their mobile site optimised for the Apple smartphone.

Exalead, one of the most dynamic search engines, has introduced last week i.exalead.com, a site for the iPhone and iPod touch. Mobile internet users can search for web sites, images, videos and even Wikipedia articles. If the answer is not relevant, they can use the “refine” button, displaying extra keywords to launch a new query.

Even if Exalead search within video files, French mobile internet users can also go on iphone.dailymotion.com, main YouTube competitor, which gives access to more than 26 channels and to a selection of videos, which are optimised to be seen as landscape and not portrait mode…

After a WAP version in July (m.netvibes.com), Netvibes also launched in august an iPhone version (iphone.netvibes.com) giving access to RSS feeds and organised in “tabs”. Netvibes is the only of these three iPhone sites to be in the Apple Catalog of iPhone applications.