Google Instant Previews brings visual search results to the iPhone
Earlier today Google rolled out their Instant Previews feature for mobile devices like iPhone. The feature adds elegant thumbnail previews to your search results and works perfectly on your iPhone or iPod touch, even bearing a resemblance to the way Mobile Safari handles tab management.
Instant Previews has been available on the desktop since last year but I never found myself actually using it. I've only been playing with it on my iPhone for a few minutes but can already tell you I'll be using Instant Previews a lot more on the go than I ever did on the desktop. Just tap the little magnifying glass next to your search results to see Instant Previews in action.
If you don't have your iPhone handy then check out the video after the break to get a better idea of how it works, and don't forget to let us know what you think in the comments!
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Works great. Nice feature and update by google.
Works Great! Good job google.
Somewhat off topic; but please help me out anyway: Did something change at Wikipedia or Google so that when I click through to wiki articles from Google search results on my iPhone (4), I am now seeing the full-web / desktop layout and not the mobile version anymore?
I can't figure out how to make the mobile versions default. I know I can add .m (after .en) but this is rather tedious, and I just prefer the mobile version.
Thanks!!
I found this. Seems I am one of the affected: http://tinyurl.com/6epbm2s
Can anyone get this working on the iPad?
I thought instant search was working, but it isn't. Neither is instant preview.
The iPhone version is working fine though.
Wow.. Nice info, Andrew. thanx.
This is what tipb should post, rather then crap rumors.
Thanks for the heads up....
It's nice, I didn't know this existed on a desktop.
Hmm. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work (at least yet) with Atomic Browser or Mercury Browser, even if they're identified as Mobile Safari for iPhone. I may have to switch back to Mobile Safari, because this is a very useful feature.