Google’s Instant search service is now up and running on its mobile sites as well — when you hit up google.com on your iPhone or iPad’s Mobile Safari browser, you’ll see search results appear as you type your query in. As you probably know from using instant search in other browser, this is more of an average time saver than anything really revolutionary (and in some cases, I’ve even been bothered by early search results that weren’t anywhere near what I was actually looking for). But anyone who really dislikes it can turn it off, and fans of the service should be happy to see it running on Mobile Safari.
When they use the actual site, anyway — note that since this is only a feature on Google’s site and not actually built into the browser, you still won’t get instant search results when searching from Safari’s own title bar search field. Still, if you happen to be searching Google after that initial search, it will probably be helpful to save that second and a half or so while you’re still typing the query in.
Google Instant beta now available on iOS devices originally appeared on TUAW on Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments