• Instant search lets results appear after each key press – a separate “search button” is not needed, and often entering a prefix (i.e. the beginning of a search term) is sufficient.
• Providing phonetic search, the system tolerates a wide spectrum of typing errors. Nonetheless, even for short queries the intended destinations are retrieved effectively.
• Auto-complete: FlashFind suggests meaningful words after entering just a few letters of a search term.
• Flexible order of entry: The user can for example first enter a street name and then the city, or the other way round.
• Abbreviations that are no prefixes are accepted as well (e.g. RD, LN, BLVD)
• Intelligent heuristics ensure that results with highest estimated relevance are determined immediately and appear at the top of the result list.
• Special search functions established in the navigation sector are supported, too, e.g. hierarchical choice of destination, or search along a computed route.

With FlashFind, Fraunhofer FOKUS offers companies from different industries such as navigation/ infotainment, geo-information, spatial databases and cloud-based services a highly efficient core search technology. For bringing this innovation to the world-wide market, Fraunhofer collaborates with Iceberg Innovation Capital Ltd.