Mobile phone apps have finally arrived. The top five iPhone search applications make surfing the web easier and more productive than ever before, and the ability to conduct quick searches improves almost weekly as developers strive to make mobile access more appealing.
Google Mobile. Enough said – we’ve done plenty of posts on the versatility you get from Google! It has dozens of applications that work well with either the Android or iPhone.
ISearch is a basic application; it makes search fast and dirty on the iPhonebu suggesting search phrases as you type. You also have the choice of performing the same query as web search, news search, and image search; if you pick the latter, you can then click an icon in the bottom right corner of your screen and toggle to thumbnail view!
Snappy Seeker is an easy to use, powerful tool – one interface gets you access to a variety of search tools. All you have to do is enter your query in the search box and press the Search button, then use the icons at the bottom of the browser window to perform your query to another search engine. You can also choose from a variety of vertical options: Web search, image search, business search, product search, news search, map search, Wikipedia, Amazon, ebay, Technorati, YouTube, Flickr, Price Grabber and iPhone application search. Click on a button for instant Safari results to open when you find what you need.
Jumpsearch lets you type your query once and run it on different search engines. It’s an easy interface with 50 different search destinations in these categories: Storefront retail, web-only retail, news and sports, book sellers, quotes/finance, reference, general search and social networks; if you change your mind midcourse and opt for Yahoo over Google or Barnes’ and Noble instead of Amazon, it only takes two clicks to redirect your focus and then you can open the web pages in Safari.
iClueless is a search portal for the iPhone which is waiting for approval to be included in iTunes App Store. You can perform general web search queries using Yahoo and Google, as well as other popular sites: Wikipedia, Answers.com, Amazon, ebay, espn, Flickr, IMDb and TMZ. There is also dictionary search, weather search, news search, stock search and local search for movie theatres, etc. Strangely, the Phone’s GPS unit is not used for local search – you are required to enter a city or a zip code.
Tags: Android, iPhone, mobile apps