Nokia Visualizes Mobile Search

March 30, 2007

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The heated competition for mobile handset search eyeballs may have reached the melting point of titanium now that a Nokia patent for visual search has been revealed. Nokia has been a technology driver throughout its existence. The world's top handset maker hasn't been afraid to branch out in hardware or in software, as evidenced by the discovery of their

Visual content like refers to the booming growth in usage of camera phones for images and videos. As storage capacities increase for mobiles, people will be able to store a lot of content in a very small space. Those people will just as likely forget about pictures or movies they shot and will want to find them again.

If Nokia can deliver on this application, with an easy to use, effective visual search product, they should gain a financial advantage by satisfying their search needs in-house. Instead of partnering with an AOL or a Google for visual search and licensing technology, Nokia would own the service.

Google is not standing still on developing mobile search technology. Bill Slawski