Pocket-Ready Mobile Searching

LIKE MANY PEOPLE, I do a lot of searching for information while walking around shops. It's a lot easier to get quality information because of how Google Latitude behaves. Using my Nokia phone, I can get results related to “Near Me Now” and I can tell local businesses what they need to do when tweaking their online presence. Neither Latitude nor Google mobile search delivers real-time answers to my mobile phone. Real-time search involves Google crawling “live” content streams (blogs, news sites, Facebook pages, Jaiku posts, MySpace updates, and tweets. I also like using my phone to snap and use QR tags (bar codes last century) to find supplementary information. I don't like the way Google Voice Search burdens my phone. It seems to use a lot of main memory and that slows down the operation of several other features on my long-serving Nokia E90. Google Voice Search is better suited for a fifth edition Symbian phone, not my well-worn third edition Nokia.

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