| The Power of Google Search, now in your Mobile |
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Google Inc. announced today the beta of its new search, Google Mobile Web Search targeted for handheld devices like mobile phones.
Since millions of people across the globe already use mobile phones like there’s no tomorrow, we’re launching Mobile Web Search in many languages. Try it the next time you visit Google on your mobile phone - you’ll see a new option to search the Mobile Web. How different is it than standard web search? There are sites out there that have already been designed for your mobile phone, which makes them more navigable on the small screen. So we’ve created an index specifically for these sites. And so your phone can now be that much more useful, says a Google Blog.
When selected on the mobile screen, Google Mobile search shows results from special index of pages optimized by publishers for the small screen.
“Given that a lot of browsing does tend to happen outside the desktop, XHTML is an important new technology,” said Deep Nishar, director of wireless product management for Google.
"In general, we believe mobile devices are a very important interface for our user base to access content,"
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