Nokia has more closely integrated Yahoo! search
technology into its top-of-the-range mobile devices to make it
easier for users to find and save web content.
Yahoo! Search has been rolled into the Nokia Mobile Search
application loaded onto the Nokia Nseries and S60 range of devices
to optimise search performance.
Mobile web users can limit their mobile search use because of
cumbersome or slow systems, something the two companies want to
address.
Yahoo! is providing web and image search results in more than 10
languages to give consumers real-time access to information and
content.
Ralph Eric Kunz, Nokia vice president of multimedia experiences,
said, “Combining Yahoo!'s proven expertise in searching on the web
with Nokia's understanding of mobile user interfaces makes the
Nokia Mobile Search experience unrivalled in the industry.”
The two companies have carried out users tests on the integrated
technology, with early data showing that 86% of all image search
results are opened, 36% are added to the device’s gallery function,
and 85% of all web searches resulted in a browser being launched to
access the searched for information.
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