Google Delivers New Search Experience for Honeycomb Tablets

Owners of tablet PCs running under Google's Android 3.1 Honeycomb operating system have now the possibility to enjoy a new experience when accessing Google Search on their devices.

The Mountain View-based Internet giant notes that this change is part of its effort to enhance the experience it offers to all of its users.

On tablet PCs, users will enjoy a new layout of the search results page, as well as increased size for page contents.

“As part of our effort to evolve the Google design and experience, we’ve improved the www.google.com search experience on tablets,” Xiaorui Gan, software engineer, Google, notes in a recent blog post.

“We’ve simplified the layout of search results pages and increased the size of page contents like text, buttons and other touch targets to make it faster and easier to browse and interact with search results in portrait or landscape view.”

The new Google Search experience on Android tablet PCs will provide users with fast access to specific types of results when hitting the search button beneath the search box.

“The search button located below the search box provides quick access to specific types of results like Images, Videos, Places, Shopping and more,” the said blog post continues.

Users will be able to simply tap to open the search menu, and then select one of the available options there to see the results in a specific category.

Xiaorui Gan also explains that Google was focused on making a series of improvements for image searches, so as to enhance the experience users receive when viewing the results page.

For example, the image results page will offer enlarged image previews, along with continuous scroll, as well as faster loading of image thumbnails.

The new improved search experience is available for all tablet PCs that run under the Android 3.1+ operating system, as well as for the Apple iPad. It should become available for all devices in a matter of days, in 36 languages.