Comments on: Google webpage search results now optimized for iPhone!

By: Santana

Santana — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:00:50 +0000

Hi. Good site.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:07:06 +0000

I do not see the point of apple not fixing this problem.

By: Chad Garrett

Chad Garrett — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:52:35 +0000

@Keil Miller

So say we all.

By: Keil Miller

Keil Miller — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:50:23 +0000

True ^^^ I want the built in search to return iPhone optimized results.

By: Mike M

Mike M — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:35 +0000

While saving it to the homescreen might work for some, that means I’d have to either make room for it or flip through a bunch of pages to get to it. But that still doesn’t solve the problem when you’re actually in safari already, the magnifying glass is right there and sooo easy. Doesn’t seem like it’d be that hard for google to fix anyway. Update us when it’s fixed, TiPB? Pretty please?

By: phillip j

phillip j — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:35:28 +0000

Scott is right, forget the google app or Safari button. Just go to the google page that is optimized for the iPhone and click on the plus sign and add it to your homescreen(springboard). This will add the optimized google sight icon so you can always launch from there. This should eliminate the problem that the first people who have posted have. Thanks Scott!

By: Keil Miller

Keil Miller — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:01:23 +0000

Waste of time if it doesn’t go to the iPhone version automatically. A more “iPhone like” UI to it would be nice too. It feels good to be unified. Please google-

By: scott

scott — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:00:49 +0000

Great feature. I loaded the mobile Google home page and then saved it to my springboard. Now I have it in one step. Much easier to read.

By: Mike M

Mike M — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:14:54 +0000

Had to try it. Wow, yea, go Yahoo! I guess it’s time to give the competition some love. Maybe it’ll light a fire under Google, I’m sure they COULD do it better…

By: Chad Garrett

Chad Garrett — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:33:14 +0000

@Thomas

Hey, good call on the Yahoo! Search, it us really, really nice. I like it! I have not used Yahoo! Search on the iPhone for some time. I swtiched for now to give it a spin. Good call.

By: Griff

Griff — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:17:03 +0000

Yeah, this is lame. Google’s own Google app doesn’t do this, and i don’t want to open safari.

By: ted

ted — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:49:52 +0000

Yea, this is basically useless to me if I have to go to google.com first.

It would only make sense if it worked through the safari google search in the tool bar.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:46:09 +0000

But this is lame: I have to 1) click to open a bookmark for Google's mobile search page, 2) wait for that page to load 3) click in the search box and 4) type search terms and then 5) get my results. Compared to just 1) tap the magnifying glass icon 2) type search terms 3) get results. And those extra two steps actually take a fair amount of time.

Worth pointing out that if you set your default iphone search engine to Yahoo, you get the really nicely formatted Yahoo mobile site by default.

By: Nicholas Dillon

Nicholas Dillon — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:44:12 +0000

It would be so nice if Apple would use this when you search. I find my self going to google.com and then doing a search.

They should make it so that it redirects to the mobile edition of google when you search from the safari search field.

Only makes sense to me.