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Google Still Believes in the Web, Revamps Google+ Mobile Site

While the mobile world may be all about the apps, the web is still important, in fact, it's increasingly important. Hopefully, the web will prevail on mobile devices eventually and Google is doing its part in this respect. It has now debuted a new Google+ website for mobiles, phones and tablets. The new Google...

13 March 2012
09:43 GMT

Google Launches Instant Previews for Android Devices

Google's Instant Preview feature that provides users with a visual preview of their search results is available now for devices running Android 2.2 or later. With Instant Previews, users will be able to quickly compare results, pinpoint relevant content, as well as interact with the search results page. The new ...

8 March 2011
13:41 GMT

Download New Google iOS App 0.7.3.5675 with Voice App Integration, Goggles Enhancements

Google has updated the Google Mobile app for iOS devices to include support for opening the Google Voice app, bug fixes, sudoku puzzle support, and US print ad support in Goggles. Google Mobile is a free app that iDevice users can download from the iTunes App Store and search Google quickly using the typical keybo...

11 January 2011
06:34 GMT

Google Instant on Mobile Devices and in Chrome 8

When Google unveiled Instant on its homepage, it promised that the technology would find its way to other Google products and to other platforms. Sure enough, Google has now released Google Instant for mobile phones, right on the heels of the quiet integration of Instant features into the Google Chrome 8 beta."In Sep...

5 November 2010
07:11 GMT

Google Mobile Gets New YouTube Channel

Google Mobile has just got an upgraded feature in place for its users, in the form of a new YouTube channel, which sports a new look and more. “By now, some of you may have noticed our new Google Mobile YouTube channel, with a fresh look that includes a video box that rotates among multiple axes (we love the R...

31 August 2010
03:10 GMT

Buzz Now on Google Maps for Desktop Users

Google has recently announced that Google Buzz has become available for the desktop version of Google Maps, after having received numerous user requests. This service was initially launched for mobile devices only, allowing people to add notes to a certain location displayed on Google Maps, with the sole purpose to p...

23 April 2010
01:54 GMT

Google's Mobile Apps for the iPad

Everybody is getting the iPad craze and Google isn't immune. With the latest hyped gadget to come from Apple having been launched over the weekend, publishers, developers and everyone in between have been releasing iPad versions of their sites or apps. Google has taken a mixed approach to the iPad. Some apps hav...

6 April 2010
05:21 GMT

The FTC May Challenge Google's AdMob Acquisition

Google's ambitious, new wave of acquisitions may be hampered by the realities of being one of the largest companies on the web. Google already dominates in many areas and, with each new move, competitors and government regulators are getting more concerned and twitchy. The latest example is the AdMob acquisition...

11 March 2010
04:32 GMT

Google Releasing Search by Voice in Mandarin

Anyone is eyeing the mobile web space these days and Google is no exception. In fact, the search giant is pushing hard on all fronts, from its dedicated search services for mobile to creating its own mobile OS, Android. After making a big splash last week with a dedicated turn-by-turn GPS app for Android, it's n...

2 November 2009
12:13 GMT

Google Introduces New Mobile Search Features

Google is launching several new features for the mobile version of its website geared towards requiring users to input less typing, cutting down on the time needed to do a search on mobile phones and making the site easier to use. One feature that the search engine just introduced is a sync option that synchronizes t...

1 October 2009
11:51 GMT

Google Mobile Enhanced for the Olympic Games

The 2008 Beijing Olympic Summer Games will debut today (August 8); this is why the Mobile version of Google's official website has undergone through some changes. These have enhanced the search engine in such way that it is now optimized to offer users the best-possible Olympic coverage. More exactly, when sear...

8 August 2008
07:01 GMT

New Google Search App for Nokia S60 Phones

Google has recently made available a new search application for Nokia S60 handsets. This little app (that looks like a widget but it's not) is supposed to provide the quickest way of searching the Web from a S60 phone. It can do that by placing, on the phone's Idle screen, a shortcut to a Google search box...

22 February 2008
14:10 GMT

Google Introduced an Improved Search Engine for Mobiles

Browsing the Internet via your mobile phone is definitely less effective than browsing from your desktop PC, regardless of your handset's display size. Google knows that (it would be funny not to), and it continuously tries to improve its mobile homepage as well as its search engine for mobiles. The latest m...

29 January 2008
11:28 GMT

iPhone Users Now Have a Special iGoogle Homepage

iGoogle, the customizable Google homepage offered by the Mountain View giant company, has now an optimized version for iPhone users. This comes after Google released, back in December 2007, a Google Mobile homepage that was also specially designed for those who browse the Internet via Apple's handset. The new iG...

14 January 2008
04:20 GMT

Yahoo! Offers Best Experience on Mobiles

According to Strategy Analytics, a global research and consulting firm, Yahoo! currently offers the best mobile experience as Interest in Web 2.0 Outstrips Media Industry Content. When compared to Google, YouTube, Napster and MySpace by participants that carried out a number of tasks, specific to each provider, on bo...

14 March 2007
07:21 GMT


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