Taptu , a new mobile search engine, was officially launched today. Taptu was built by a bunch of passionate people (and pretty laid back) who wanted to make it easier to search from a small device. Check out their About page or their blog to know more about the people behind this new kind of mobile search engine.

Taptu uses a technique called social-assisted search to provide “purer” results. Social-Assisted search consists of combining algorithmic search results with social accuracy and editorial review.

Taptu believes that because of the limitations of the mobile Web as opposed to desktop Web: limited screen space, data cost, small keypad, etc, mobile search engines need to rely on human input to only return the very best results.

The particularity of Taptu is that it includes reach media, such as videos and audio that you can play right from their search results, which I find really cool.

It’s more oriented towards mobile content search. It doesn’t have local search, news results, or mobile web results.

Taptu is available at this address http://taptu.mobi/ The interface is very simple: just one search box. Type in a query, press search, and Taptu will return categorized search results:

– Images
– Wiki
– Web pages
– Videos
– Songs
– Artists
– Lyrics

Example of a search for “daft punk”

I look forward to seeing future developments of this new search engine, it sure is promising.