PSA: Google Search Bar Gives iPhone-Optimized Results
I’m sure that a few of you, like me, have been avoiding using the Google Search Bar in Safari in favor of the Google app. Avoiding it not because the Google App is that awesome (it is), but because the search results page in Safari that comes up when you use the Google Search Bar wasn’t optimized for Safari, but instead looked like the regular desktop page.
Well, quick tip if you’ve been avoiding that bar: it’s been mobile optimized while you were away. No need to avoid it anymore. The above search results screen shot shows what the new (to me, anyway) results page looks like. Chad emailed in (with more than a few exclamation points) showing the same.
Treat this Public Service Announcement like all PSAs — if you don’t care, move along, nothing to see here, threat-level orange, and all that. But If you’ve been keeping away from that search bar, it’s time to come back home.
December 17th, 2008 at 9:54 am
As always…google.com first. Not here so far, bummer.
December 17th, 2008 at 10:02 am
It didn’t work for me either. It just takes me to the regular google.com. What am I missing?
December 17th, 2008 at 10:09 am
If it doesn’t work for you, you can use the method listed here on a jailbroken iphone: http://iphonethink.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-change-iphone-google-search.html
December 17th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Works great for me! But I don’t like that every page I enter through google links in also optimized. Sometimes I want to see the full site. How do I turn that option off? I used to have an option, but now it’s gone.
December 17th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Jesh – If you scroll down to the bottom of hte page, there’s a link to view google in ‘Classic’. That should set a cookie to give you the old style google.
For you guys not getting it yet — that’s very weird! Are you on AT&T?
December 17th, 2008 at 11:12 am
About ******* time.
December 17th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
I downloaded the Google app on day one and still haven’t tried it. I guess I just never feel like opening another app when I’m already in Safari. I have Yahoo for my search bar anyway (okay, okay, I’ll “move along” now).
December 17th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Optimized Google search works for me.
However, is anyone else having a problem getting iPhone Safari to keep cookies from Google? I want to remove ‘moderate search’ but for some reason my iPhone won’t keep the cookies that Google sets.
Rajiv
December 17th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Doesn’t work for me. Annoying.
December 17th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Doesn’t work for me neither.
December 17th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Question: How do you delete your previous Google search entries? I tried deleting cookies, history, and cache, but that didnt delete my Google search history.
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:19 pm
flash on iPhone I’m getting so pissed off!!!!!!!!
February 3rd, 2009 at 3:11 am
@8 Rajiv – ssh into your iphone or open the terminal, log in as root, and chown -R mobile /var/mobile/