Google webpage search results now optimized for iPhone!
Google’s Mobile Blog is telling us that they have updated their search results from the Google mobile webpage . The main benefits I have discovered with this update is that there is no longer a need to scroll left and right and that business have easy to touch numbers and addresses that launch the phone and map apps.
Here is the exciting part:
“Over time, we intend to make the newly formatted results pages available through other search entry points on the iPhone.”This is really great news! I think we have all been wanting that dastardly Google Search box to present optimized iPhone results. I guess it is try that Google really “hearts” the iPhone
In the meantime, enjoy the gallery and video after the jump!
November 13th, 2008 at 10:44 am
It would be so nice if Apple would use this when you search. I find my self going to google.com and then doing a search.
They should make it so that it redirects to the mobile edition of google when you search from the safari search field.
Only makes sense to me.
November 13th, 2008 at 10:46 am
But this is lame: I have to 1) click to open a bookmark for Google’s mobile search page, 2) wait for that page to load 3) click in the search box and 4) type search terms and then 5) get my results. Compared to just 1) tap the magnifying glass icon 2) type search terms 3) get results. And those extra two steps actually take a fair amount of time.
Worth pointing out that if you set your default iphone search engine to Yahoo, you get the really nicely formatted Yahoo mobile site by default.
November 13th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Yea, this is basically useless to me if I have to go to google.com first.
It would only make sense if it worked through the safari google search in the tool bar.
November 13th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Yeah, this is lame. Google’s own Google app doesn’t do this, and i don’t want to open safari.
November 13th, 2008 at 11:33 am
@Thomas
Hey, good call on the Yahoo! Search, it us really, really nice. I like it! I have not used Yahoo! Search on the iPhone for some time. I swtiched for now to give it a spin. Good call.
November 13th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Had to try it. Wow, yea, go Yahoo! I guess it’s time to give the competition some love. Maybe it’ll light a fire under Google, I’m sure they COULD do it better…
November 13th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Great feature. I loaded the mobile Google home page and then saved it to my springboard. Now I have it in one step. Much easier to read.
November 13th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Waste of time if it doesn’t go to the iPhone version automatically. A more “iPhone like” UI to it would be nice too. It feels good to be unified. Please google-
November 13th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Scott is right, forget the google app or Safari button. Just go to the google page that is optimized for the iPhone and click on the plus sign and add it to your homescreen(springboard). This will add the optimized google sight icon so you can always launch from there. This should eliminate the problem that the first people who have posted have. Thanks Scott!
November 13th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
While saving it to the homescreen might work for some, that means I’d have to either make room for it or flip through a bunch of pages to get to it. But that still doesn’t solve the problem when you’re actually in safari already, the magnifying glass is right there and sooo easy. Doesn’t seem like it’d be that hard for google to fix anyway. Update us when it’s fixed, TiPB? Pretty please?
November 13th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
True ^^^ I want the built in search to return iPhone optimized results.
November 14th, 2008 at 7:52 am
@Keil Miller
So say we all.
December 7th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
I do not see the point of apple not fixing this problem.
January 8th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Hi. Good site.