Location-based search engine for multimedia phones

Location-based search engine is an alternative approach for information retrieval to traditional location-based services based on fixed databases. This is a relatively new concept that aims at utilizing the location of user but without restricting to any fixed location-based service. In this paper, we outline a prototype solution for multimedia mobile phones based on web search, ad-hoc georeferencing, prefix tree structure and gazetteer. Experimental results show that the proposed solution finds search results that have higher or equal mean relevance than that of the GoogleMaps and YellowPages.