Written by on Saturday, April 7, 2007

Google Launches Mobile Search Service


Google has made it possible, according to their blog, to get the "information you care about, right from your homepage."  You simply add gadgets to your homepage with a simple click.

With the new mobile search UI, finding answers is supposed to be quick, and done with a minimum of clicks.  They’ve eliminated the need to retype the location every time. 

"We realize that when you’re on the go, you usually just want an answer to your query, rather than everything and the kitchen sink…So if you search for [bbc] on your device, you’ll get a link to the mobile-friendly BBC website."

"Google has released a new mobile search engine designed to make it easier to find Web information using a handheld device. Launched on Tuesday, http://www.google.com/m?uipref=3 can be accessed from a mobile browser and customized to feature pre-selected weather, news, stocks, and movies information, tailored to a specific geographic area."

Source PocketPC Thoughts

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Brandon Steili
Apr 7, 2007

Why did this have to be a whole new “launch”? (not you Steve – Google) They already had a mobile page, and if you go to http://www.google.com on a Windows Mobile device it puts you at http://www.google.com/pda instead of the new “search” which is at http://www.google.com/m?uipref=3. I don’t know about you but there’s no way in you know what that I’m going to remember that address while I’m on the go, and since it’s designed for mobile why not just push users straight there instead of to a /pda link?!

Yea Yea, use it as a homepage. Sure. That’ll be handy the first time I open PIE, but on my phone I leave it running pretty much always so I rarely if ever hit my homepage.

Anyway, this whole “new search” thing doesn’t make much sense to me. They had the platform in place already for quite sometime, they just added some new functionality. It’s like Whirlpool launching Clothes Washers for the first time… all over again.

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