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Google Mobile blurring boundaries?

I always used to think, are the mobile phones with their teeny weeny power, ever going to match the mammoth options I have with my Desktop. I, personally, am not even all that big a fan of Laptops despite so many people touting the umptieth number of benefits of Laptops over Desktops. I just can’t get over the humongous power of my Desktop over even the Best lappy available in the market.

Considering mobile phones, yeah even in this age, I consider them more to be important for making and receiving calls. At times, some text messages. To me, all others look fancy add-ons.

All this seems to be changing, and changing quite fast. Needless to say, Google is turning out to be the pioneer here, once again. Google search has been available on the mobile phone for quite some time now. Google has now gone one step ahead and introduced some advanced Search Options on its mobile version too! In the process, Google has just brought the mobile version closer to the Desktop search.

Most notable are the additional searching options such as
Choosing the timeframe for search results
Dedicated searches for forums and reviews
The amount of images to be displayed

Come on now, the Desktop offers sooo many more options. Yet, well begun is half done! Great work so far, Google!

The painful part is that these new options are currently available only on a limited set of smartphones – running of Android OS, WebOS and our very own, Apple iPhone. Yet, the support for other mobile Operating Systems, including Windows Mobile, Symbian and Blackberry may not be too far away.

The existing Android users are anyways in for a party. The Google 1.6 Donut upgrade introduces Quick Search Box (QSB). This practically combines phone search tool with a Google Search Box. The QSB lets its users search on a wide range of data like the content on your phone and content from the web without ever opening the Web Browser.

Voice Searches and Voice Dialling may be enabled. Another limitation that came into picture was English as the only search option. If it is not all that important to Google, how does Google Desktop search occurs in so many languages around the world?

Let’s see what is next, that Google churns out. We will keep you posted.

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