GoogHelper is a snappy utility that helps you quickly launch various Internet searches using mobile friendly sites such as Google, Yahoo!Finance, Amazon, Wikipedia and much more.  

Being a stand-alone application, it can be mapped to any external buttons on your device, or added as an icon to your current Today-screen utilities.

This is a pretty neat little program. At first it doesn’t seem that impressive, as the screenshot above is pretty much the entire application, the only screen you’ll see – and once you enter a search term and tap one of the search engine choices, you still have to wait on your Pocket PC’s browser to fire up the results.

But … once you get an initial set of results (via the web search first, let’s say) using whatever your preferred task-switching app is (iLauncher for me) you can switch back to GoogHelper, press the Images button and very quickly get that result up. Switch back again and choose Wiki and pull those right up.

Read on for a little more on this handy new app …

Just using this for 10 minutes you realize that this really does leave you with far fewer taps / presses to carry out your search on multiple different engines – or as GoogHelper’s page tells us:

Assuming you have popular websites such as Google, Yahoo!Finance, Amazon, Wikipedia, etc. in your Favorites list, it takes up to 3 taps after Pocket Internet Explorer is open to execute a simple Web search.

Even more taps are required to use any of the other search types such as maps, images, groups, Froogle, news, shop, software, or other mobile searches.
GoogHelper puts all this search power in just one tap.

I could see this becoming a very useful everyday application, especially if Iambic adds a few more features to it. Saved Searches would be one thing that would have immediate appeal.

Iambic have launched a few new Windows Mobile programs in the last few days following their debut WM application launch last week – EzQuote as we posted on here - and they seem to be off to a very promising start!

For more details and a trial download of GoogHelper, visit:

GoogHelper main page

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