Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is designed to run on phones and tablets that don’t have physical buttons. Instead, the Home, Menu, and Back buttons are on-screen icons that automatically rotate when you change your grip on the screen. For some reason Google decided to do away with the dedicated Search button though. Originally the search button was a key component of any Android… Read more »

Google is rolling out a new version of its Google Search app for Android devices. The new app offers improved search suggestions, faster performance, and the ability to remove items from your search history by long-pressing on them. The Google Search app is available for free from the Android Market. It supports Android 2.2 and up. When you start typing in the search box in the new app,… Read more »

Google is starting to roll out a new search page designed for touchscreen displays. The idea is to make it easier to interact with Google’s primary product: its search engine, while using a device with a reasonably large display and touch input. The new page looks like a cross between the desktop browser interface and the mobile page you’d see when visiting Google.com on an… Read more »

Just a few weeks after Google redesigned its mobile search page to include location-based links to restaurants, coffee shops, and bars at the bottom of the main screen, Google had launched another redesign which may be even more useful. Now instead of only seeing new options on the main search page, there’s a list of options at the top of every Google search page. For… Read more »

Yahoo has launched new mobile apps for iOS and Android which are designed to make it easier to sift through the enormous list of available apps to find the ones you’re looking for. While Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market let you sort by category or search by name, Yahoo goes a few steps further by offering tools that make it easy to find… Read more »

Google has redesigned its mobile search page for Android and iOS. Google has a long track record of basically just showing you a big search box and nothing else on the front page, but now if you enable local search on your mobile browser you’ll also find a few icons along the bottom of the screen for restaurants, coffee and bars. There’s also a “more”icon… Read more »

Microsoft has rolled out a new feature that lets iOS users discover mobile apps related to their searches. Say you’re looking up movie showtimes. Movie-related apps such as IMDB or Fandango might show up in your Bing mobile search results. You have to scroll through a few more traditional listings before you find the app results, but once you see them you can click the… Read more »

Some iPhone users are beginning to notice some design changes and UI enhancements coming to their Google search page in Safari. Phone Arena originally noticed the changes, pointing out that large new icons have replaced the smaller text links at the top of the page. The new icons are visible upon running a search query on an iOS device. The icons include Google searches, images, places,… Read more »

Google has rolled out updates for two of its iOS apps today: and . The Google Search app snow includes larger fonts, tappable search results, and an option to disable voice search via gestures. But the biggest change is that Google says the app should be up to 20% more responsive. Apparently the company had received complaints that the last update made the app much… Read more »

Google has rolled out an updated version of its image recognition app for Android. The biggest change in Google Goggles 1.4 is an enhanced search history feature which lets you view pictures you’ve already snapped, add notes, share results with your contacts, or offer Google better results to help improve the product. The update also adds improvements to business card scanning. The app should now… Read more »