Google Search, iPhone Version

window.document.getElementById(‘post-3845’).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Google has released a special iPhone-formatted version of its search engine. Besides being sized properly for the smaller screen, Ionut Alex explains that it is actually an implementation of Google’s AJAX Search API, and comes with the limitations of that API. You only get eight results (web search, news, and images), and clicking to see more only brings you to the regular sized Google. Plus, the back button probably won’t work. Still, it looks like it works well on a phone.
You’d think the iPhone would launch with a special Google search capability, given Google’s incestuous relationship with Apple. At least, since it uses a public API, anyone else can try their hand at changing the design or adding other API functions, like Custom Search Engines, blog search, and video search (not that any of the video can play on the iPhone).

Original post by Nathan Weinberg