One of our top goals on the mobile search team is to bring you the comprehensiveness of Google’s web search while optimizing the search experience for your mobile device and in your language. Here is an update on our progress.After launching new optim…
As is well known, our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. We aim to do this through technology, and in Africa, that means developing tools for the mobile phone. Africa has the world’s highest …
As an engineer based in Taipei, I frequently travel to Google headquarters in Mountain View. When I’m there, I’m always looking for local businesses to try out, like coffee shops and restaurants. I also forget where the banks and ATM’s are. While Se…
It is amazing how much information can be displayed on even the smallest map, yet we sometimes forget that geographic content is not always available visually.If you’re out and about, you can call GOOG-411 and get local information about businesses. No…
Since we launched Google Product Search for mobile a few weeks ago, I’ve been using it to check prices, reviews and product details on my Android phone. In addition to typing in my product searches, I’ve also had some fun speaking them. Sometimes, th…
In my spare time, I like to build computer systems at home. So I often use Google Product Search on a desktop computer to look for video cards, memory, and peripherals. Google Product Search gives me information like prices, ratings, reviews, and pro…
In December, we launched ads for iPhone and Android devices. This feature allows advertisers to target their standard AdWords text and image ads to the iPhone, Android devices, and other mobile devices with full (HTML) Internet browsers. Before that,…
Last December, those of you who responded to our 100th mobile blog post said that you wanted more editorial content and mobile industry insight. Here are a couple of recent mobile-related articles that you might find interesting from Google executives…
In September 2007, we launched Adsense for mobile content so that publishers could join our mobile content network and monetize their sites with Google text ads.Today, we’re happy to announce a new AdSense product for both mobile network operators and …
Over 1.5 million public domain books in the US (and over half a million outside the US) are now available for perusing on iPhone and Android devices. Just go to books.google.com/m in your mobile browser. You can search for a title, author, or subject….
Don’t want to type a long query, like “U.S. economic stimulus plan”, on your T-Mobile G1? Just say it. Or, perhaps you’d like to browse the web without sliding out the keyboard? Well now you can. For those of you with a G1 in the US, the next time …
A couple months ago, Tasks launched in Gmail Labs. Tasks lets you easily create and manage to-do lists right in Gmail. Now, you can access and manage your task lists from your phone, too. Just go to gmail.com/tasks in your mobile browser and log in….
Happy New Year!One evening in Zurich, after a late night cake run, we decided that our iPhone app, Google Mobile App with Voice Search, could do with a little bling. The result of this is a few extra options hidden below the preferences on the Settings…
Have you ever left a comment on the Google mobile blog about a new feature or platform that you really wanted supported? Have you ever wanted to cast a vote for another reader’s comment to make your opinion heard? Well now you can.While we do read yo…
We don’t always say this, but thank you for reading the Google mobile blog.When we launched last year, we realized that we needed to better communicate what the Google mobile team was up to. Since then, we’ve been working hard to provide you with time…