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What is Boopsie?:
Boopsie is a mobile search provider. However, we like to call it mobile
find-because Boopsie finds things, it doesn't search for them. The
Boopsie client is a thin, yet powerful, layer between you and what
youare trying to find. Boopsie does not 'contain' the data; it creates
and uses special indexes to find the data on other content providers'
sites.
Privacy and Network Usage
Boopsie uses the following services on your phone:
Make Phone Calls
Making a connection to the Internet
Allowing you to add contacts
Accessing location information/GPS
Boopsie requires the use of the data network on your phone. It has no
functionality without a network connection. If you do not have an
'unlimited' data plan, you should carefully monitor your data use thru
your carrier. Boopsie will display a blank screen if you have disabled
its access to the data network.
Boopsie also has the capbility to access the GPS hardware on your phone
(if available) to find things near your current location. You must have
the device's GPS enabled by going to the General section under Settings
of the phone and choosing the Positioning application. Boopsie will
prompt you as to whether or not you would like to useyour location/GPS
information to find local places. You may select 'Never Allow' to
disable Boopsie's access to the GPS; or you may select 'Always Allow' to
enable the GPS to be active the entire time Boopsie is running; or you
may select 'Allow per channel' to have the GPS enabled only on those
channels that are location aware (like CitySearch or Starbucks Store
Locator). The trade-off between having the GPS functionality set to
'Always allow' vs. 'Allow per channel' is that the startup time for the
Satellite acquisition can sometimes be long. If you have the GPSenabled
from the start of the application (Always allow), then the GPS
chipsethas time to 'warm up' and when you go to a location aware
channel, you shouldget immediately relevant results for that channel.
However, the GPS chipset reduces battery life, so you should only use
'Allow always' if you are a frequent user of the location services of
Boopsie. If you choose 'Allow per channel', then the GPS is enabled only
on those channels that are location aware. It may takea few minutes for
the GPS chipset to acquire satellites,so be patient. How to use Boopsie?:
Boopsie does not work like Google or Yahoo!. Instead of using form based
search (where you type in a term and hit 'submit' or 'go'), Boopsie
uses a vertical (or channel) search. You first pick a channel, then you
may start typing the searchterm(s). Boopsie uses a multi-term prefix
search. What that means is that you only have to type the first parts of
words for Boopsie to find what you are after.
So, if you are looking in the Wikipedia channel for "UmaThurman", all
you have to do is select the Wikipedia channel from the main menu, then
type 'um th'. That is enough for Boopsie to find "Uma Thurman". After
each keystroke, Boopsie will display possible matches for what you have
typed. If you make a typing error, you will immediately notice it
because Boopsie will display a blank page and a'no matches found' error.
As another example, if you are looking for "Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone " on the Amazon Books channel, all you have to do is
select"Amazon Books" from the main menu, then type 'h p at s s' - voila!
There's "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone " - that beats typing
out the whole thing on a mobile phone!
Once you have found your target, all you have to do is click on it and
Boopsie transfers you to your browser to view the mobilefriendly page.
Therefore, Boopsie is a thin layer between you and the*exact* content
you are looking for.
The top-level Boopsie menu is also searchable this way. So, when you
first start Boopsie, if you want tosearch in the Wikipedia channel, just
type 'w' and you'll see all the channels starting with 'w' - like
'Wikipedia'. If you want to search for Zagat reviewed restaurants, enter
'z', etc. The top level 'All Channels'menu is updated automatically on
the Boopsie server. So, once you have the client, you getthe new
channels automatically as they are added.
If you want to perform broad based search that does not fit into a
Boopsie channel, choose the 'General' channel and start typing your
search term. This will still show you potential matches for whatyou are
typing. However, in the General channel, you need to type the whole
word, not just the prefix. So, to find "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Stone " in theGeneral channel, you must type "Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's Stone ".
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