Searching Photos in Spotlight for in iOS4

I have a ton of photos on my iPhone 4 but would like to be able to include my photo keywords or photo events in spotlight. Is there now way to do this or is there an app that someone knows about that allows for this?
Cheers!

There is no option in the spotlight for searching photos (you'd know this if you had actually checked). As for an app, the only way that the app would let you do this, is if you loaded the photos into the APP, not the iPhone itself, through the photos app.

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Spotlight Preferences now recognises 'Images' and I'm unable to change it back to 'Pictures'.
As I said before there is no "photo" file type, just a bunch of other kinds (tiff, jpeg, GIF, and maybe 20 other possible extensions) that are used for photos. I don't think Spotlight uses the term "Pictures", just "images". I have a "Pictures" folder but in Spotlight I just see "Images" in the search results, and "Images" is what is uses in the preferences.
this doesn't explain why I'm unable to search for photo files using Spotlight.
Make sure that the area containing your photos is not excluded from search by the privacy feature in Spotlight's preferences.
Spotlight searches for text information. For example, I have lots of photos, but spotlight only find a single one since I don't use the word "photo" in any of my file names or folder names. The one file it finds has "Created by Adobe Photoshop" in the metadata - Spotlight is keying in on the word "photo". If I type in the word "Picture" it finds the Pictures folder, but doesn't list the contents since none of those have the word "Picture" in their names or text within the file.
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Maybe I'm not I'm not seeing things wright but I can't find any possibilitie to search photos by name, title, keyword with iPhoto (1.0.1) on my iPad 2 (5.1.1)
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Rob,
as Frank Caggiano said. There is not really any Apple-provided application on the iPad that will support a full-fledged photo database like the Mac-versions of Aperture or iPhoto. Even the IOS app iPhoto is nothing like the Mac version of iPhoto. The iPad version is not a photo database but a tool for editing, sharing, and viewing photos - the iPhoto Help is saying:
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Nobody here but us fellow users.
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Helllo Robert,
Thank you for your answer... ;-) - at least I'm not alone... ;-))
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Rob,
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Feature request go here: http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/
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