Nokia Adds Google To Search App
Nokia has announced that they will *finally* be adding Google to the search engine options in their Nokia Search application, which is downloadable for nearly all handsets, but sports direct access on the newer ones. Currently, at least in the U.S., we have to choose between Windows Live! search and Yahoo!, neither of which I’m particularly fond of. Google will be included in the Search application on the freshly announced N78, 6220 Classic, 6210 Navigator, and N96, and should be available to older handsets via a Search update soon, as well.
Nokia Search lets you search your handset’s memory as well as a quick click to web results for images or photos. The biggest thing missing, in my opinion, has been local search, and that’s something I’m really hoping Google brings. Hopefully we’ll also see more Google integration throughout the year, as we recently got a native-Symbian version of Google Maps.
Any chance we (N82, N95… users) get that in an FW update?
Even better, because it’s just part of the Search application, they will likely just release an update to that for us to download, no firmware update needed.
And even betterer than that, Nokia should have made it /configurable/ in the first place.
It’s very M$ to hardcode an app to one thing, such as a search provider, and I found this odd when I first saw the Search app. (”WTF? Nokia’s not that monopolistic is it?”)
This is a good move, only because I use Google, but what about poor Mr. X who uses SearchEngineX? Do they have to wait until Nokia makes an ‘agreement’ with SearchEngineX too?
That’s silly, just provide an easy way to add more providers. And Nokia, connect it to that wacky MOSH or something and all the users will create the links for you too.
Easy.
@henare Because it’s an application, I would imagine Nokia has to secure the permission of the search provider in order to include it in the app.
It *IS* configurable, though, between the search providers. Currently you can pick between Yahoo! and Live, and obviously Google will be another option soon.
Let’s hope real soon, not N96 soon.