If you’ve been to Times Square in New York City over the past couple weeks, on any day from 12:30-2:00pm or 6:30-8:00pm, you may have noticed that Google Search by voice is powering Times Square’s largest combined displays — the Reuters Sign and the N…
Heads up, movie fans — today we’ve launched a mobile version of our new Google Search results for movies, which makes it easier to plan a trip to the movies. Just go to google.com in the web browser on your iPhone, Palm WebOS, or Android-powered devi…
On April 7th, we announced a new version of Gmail for mobile for iPhone and Android-powered devices. Among the improvements was a complete redesign of the web application’s underlying code which allows us to more rapidly develop and release new feature…
Since we launched printable coupons on Google Maps a few years ago, people are increasingly using their mobile phones to find local information when they’re away from a computer. With more of you going mobile to search for this information, it makes se…
If you’re a regular reader of the Google Mobile Blog, then you’ve probably installed or accessed our mobile applications on your phone at one point or another. You may have even shown our applications to your friends and explained how to get them. Or…
Last week, we introduced expanded mobile reporting features in Google Analytics. To help developers, this launch includes features that make it easy to see how people are using specific parts of their iPhone and Android applications. The same Google An…
Google Custom Search makes it easy for web site owners to add Google-powered search boxes to their sites. Since a rapidly growing percentage of web search traffic originates from smartphones, we’re pleased to announce that Google Custom Search now for…
Finding the exact information you need sometimes requires filtering and refining your search results. Earlier in the year, we launched a collection of tools called Search Options which enable you to easily and quickly do this from a computer. Today i…
Sometimes I do a search on my desktop computer, only to find that I need to repeat the same search again later on my mobile phone. Today in the US we’re launching Personalized Suggest for Android, iPhone and Palm WebOS, which makes it really easy to r…
The mobile search team is always looking for new ways to make searching the world around you as easy and useful as searching the web. Today we’re introducing a redesigned local search experience on your phone that integrates with Google Maps on your co…
Forty-language support is an important milestone for a product at Google. We are very excited that by adding support for Hebrew and Arabic, our new optimized mobile Search experience is now available in 40 languages for feature phones.We launched in 38…
Today we’re pleased to announce a new Google Labs application for Android-powered devices in the US called, Listen. Listen quickly finds podcasts and web audio relevant to your searches, lets you stream over-the-air or download for later, and subscrib…
Earlier this year, we launched new Image Search results for iPhone and Android-powered devices. Since then, we’ve rolled out the new format to iPhone and Android in 28 countries. Now, the new Image Search results pages are also available for most other…
I recently visited NYC where I met up with my friend Joanne, a jazz singer with a wonderful 1920′s throwback style. I wanted to find a jazz club close to my hotel on the west side for us to meet. The problem was that I hadn’t lived in Manhattan for 5…
A few months ago we launched Google Product Search for iPhone and Android-powered devices. At the time, a number of you asked why Product Search for mobile was not available for your phone model. Well since then, we’ve added support for the Palm Pre,…