Universal Search Comes to the iPhone

universalsearchThe iPhone Spotlight search feature has been improved yet again.

Universal Search, a jailbreak app from Efiko Software, takes searching with Spotlight to a whole new level. With this add-on installed, Spotlight can access mobile search sites and generate location-based results all from within the Spotlight search window.

Universal Search’s smart input monitoring allows the user to enter a phone number or url directly into Spotlight and options to call, text or visit the url pop up in the results. It also searches Google Maps and mobile sites directly rather than going through a search engine’s web results.

Search sites include Wikipedia, Google Maps, Twitter, CNN, ebay, IMDb, flickr, and ESPN.

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Universal Search is available for $4.99 in the Cydia Store.

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  • http://www.erikfolgate.com Erik

    Wow, now THIS is a good reason to jailbreak.

  • AdamC

    Every developer is capable of developing great apps if only thy spend more time in the developing and less time on the whining why they can’t get back great returns (greed) on their apps while they are waiting for approval by apple.

    BTW no one holds the monopoly of ‘it just works’.

  • Fat Gorilla

    Five dollars ??

    Now this is greed. :-(