Nokia Mobile Search enhanced with Yahoo! Search

Nokia and Yahoo! announced that Yahoo! Search has become a more integral part of the Nokia Mobile Search application, a simple, convenient, and fast way to find and connect to local services, websites, images, and mobile content. This cooperation allows Nokia to strengthen the Internet search offering on Nokia Nseries multimedia computers and other Nokia S60 devices.

Yahoo! will provide state-of-the-art web and image search results in more than 10 languages on a variety of Nokia devices to give consumers real-time access to information and content.

Nokia and Yahoo! have been working together since April 2005 to establish an optimal Internet experience, including search, for consumers on their mobile devices.

“Nokia is extremely focused on providing the multimedia computer user the easiest route to explore the Internet and find what they need while they are on the go, such as images, facts, restaurants and addresses,” commented Ralph Eric Kunz, vice president, Multimedia Experiences, at Nokia.

Early data shows that 86% of all image search results are opened, 36% are added to the Gallery and 85% of all web searches resulted in a browser being launched to access the searched for information.

The Nokia Mobile Search application is available in select markets in the standard sales packs of the Nokia N80 Internet Edition, N73, N93, N70, N71, 6630, 6680 and 6681. It is also offered as a free download for more selected S60 devices from www.nokia.com/mobilesearch.