Mobile Search - Social Network Search Using Mobile Devices Demonstration

Mobile search prototype demonstrates the possibilities of social network search in N800 mobile devices. Search is initiated from a N800 mobile device to search the contacts in mobile device's addressbook. The contacts can be other N800 mobile devices running mobile Web server or normal Web servers in the Internet with Drupal content management system. Mobile device users can select which of their personal information such as phone numbers, calendar data etc. to share via a mobile Web server. The proposed search mechanism has many benefits compared to centralized Web search engines like Google. The search can locate information which is not referenced anywhere and thus allows hidden or rare information to be found. The search is executed realtime and does not provide outdated links. The search is directed to persons close in the social network and thus provides results which are more likely to be relevant to the querier. However, for searching popular data accessible via centralized servers mobile search is not well suited.