Universal Search Comes to the iPhone
11:59 pm, September 3rd, 2009, Tim Cox
The 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.
Universal Search is available for $4.99 in the Cydia Store.
Posted by Tim Cox in News, iPhone Apps | Comment on this article
Tim Cox is the social media and communications coordinator for a private university in the Los Angeles area. He has written for a number of online and print publications and has presented on technology and social media at the national level. One of his greatest accomplishments was networking a Mac Plus with a Mac Pro. In his spare time he writes music, poetry, and trains for Street Fighter IV tournaments. He is married with 5 beautiful kitties. He encourages you to 
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The Coolest Gadgets we missed this week 4th September 2009 « Technology « GPT Analyzer, on September 4th, 2009 at 9:57 am
Wow, now THIS is a good reason to jailbreak.
Erik, on September 4th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
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’.
AdamC, on September 5th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Five dollars ??
Now this is greed.
Fat Gorilla, on September 6th, 2009 at 3:45 pm