New Version Of Google Mobile Search

Ionut Alex writes about Google’s newest release of their mobile search product. I tried it out, and it seems like a good improvement. Google’s added some formatting to the page, so it is more than just text on a blank screen, and they’re trying the same thing Yahoo OneSearch is trying, putting multiple search verticals on the same page, guessing based on your query what you might find helpful.
For example, I searched for “Goggles”, and I got web search results, followed by local results (you enter your zip code and it remembers) and then pictures of goggles (and dogs wearing goggles). Search for “Knicks” and get sports scores atop those results. The results seem biased towards mobile websites, which results in a poorer set of search results, like when I searched for “Microsoft” and the second result was the WAP site of Microsoft’s Philippines office.
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Original post by Nathan Weinberg