Microsoft hooks up Nokia phones with Live Search

We, of course, can't speak for Yahoo -- but if we had to guess, we'd imagine they're at least a little bit perturbed at Nokia right about now. Just under two weeks after announcing a partnership with the search company to include Yahoo! Search in its Mobile Search application, Nokia's now announced a similar deal with Microsoft, which'll see Windows Live Search find a home alongside Yahoo in the mobile search platform. Them's the breaks of the cut-throat search biz, we guess. Hard feelings aside, if you choose the Live Search route you'll get stock quotes, movie times, and results from Encarta Instant Answers in addition to search results in 14 languages -- the idea being that you can access all that info faster than you could using a web browser. Look for it come pre-loaded on Nokia Nseries handhelds, with a free download already available from Nokia's website for compatible Nokia S60 devices.

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[(Unverified) Posted Nov 6th 2006 4:16PM]

I used to suffer bouts of tech envy when all my smart phone-toting friends would brag about their search function capabilities. I admit it - I was totally jealous until I discovered the new lot of mobile Q&A services that turn green screens into "smart phones." My current rave is AskMeNow – put simply I can text ANY question to ASKME and in a few minutes I have an answer. So far, all my questions have been answered with 100% accuracy. It's efficient enough to make you wonder if smart phones are doomed as a result of these low-cost services.