The invention provides an apparatus, a method, a computer program product and an electronic device where, in accordance with the method there includes steps of implementing a search mediator function that is interposed between a plurality of applications and a plurality of search functions; and operating the search mediator function for receiving search queries from individual ones of the plurality of applications, forwarding received search queries to appropriate ones of the plurality of search functions, and providing search results to respective ones of the plurality of applications in accordance with at least application-specific search profiles.