Ziva has built the next generation of mobile search and access system based on a key insight: precise and relevant answers can be provided by modeling the search and access process on human interactions. Man-machine interactions have been the subject of intense research in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) domain for a long time. Ziva has built world's first "mobile answer engine" based on it's break-through “Question and Answer Engine”. The QA Engine is part of Ziva's Manas Platform™. Manas Platform™ is compatible with any language, any vertical/segment, and any number of heterogeneous information sets. In other words, the search and access paradigm remains the same across multiple verticals. For this reason, Ziva's search paradigm is referred to as the Lateral Search™ technique.

Ziva's mobile-specific social networking platform (referred to as Peepal Network™) has been built groud-up to support mobile-based communities. Peepal Network™ utilizes user's location as well as the time parameter to support transient and time-sensitive social networks that can be dynamically formed based on user's current location as well as other interests. The flexible nature of the Peepal Network™ can be used to power a number of mobile-specific social networking applications -- which includes reviews and ratings, tagging, music/video sharing, etc.

Manas Platform™ and Peepal Network™ have been engineered so that they work effectively despite the space and bandwidth constraints imposed by the mobile devices and networks. Ziva's stack has been carefully built to provide full flexibility and power of its search system over SMS as well. This provides unprecedented flexibility to the SMS (and other text-based) users and helps content owners target the segment of SMS savvy consumers. At the same time, WAP-based and J2ME-based interfaces provide richer user experience and increased ease-of-use to the mobile Internet users.