Google bestows home screen search upon WinMo, too

by Chris Ziegler posted Mar 19th 2008 at 9:19PM

S60 ate first, but now it's Windows Mobile's turn -- a bit backward from an American perspective, to be sure, but a very logical one when you look at global market share. Google has now brought its home screen search application to the WinMo platform, noting on its blog that it has discovered that S60 and BlackBerry users with the app installed are able to get to Google search results about 40 percent quicker than those without -- and they search 20 percent more. Makes sense, considering the pain involved with loading the browser, navigating to a favorite (or even worse, typing in google.com by hand) and tapping your feet for a few seconds. The plug-in is available immediately.

Filed under: Software, Windows Mobile

Tags: google, search, windows mobile, WindowsMobile, winmo

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Dave @ Mar 19th 2008 9:50PM

sweet, aside from people on xda-devs doing this with a windows live hack for about the last year...

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packetsniffer @ Mar 20th 2008 12:19AM

Yeah and all those Treo users for the last *few* years.

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matt @ Mar 20th 2008 3:31AM

The SearchToday plugin for PPC's has been around forever and lets you search google from the Today Screen

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Christopher Vendemio @ Mar 20th 2008 8:45AM

WM5 on a BJII? They couldn't at least photoshop a more realistic image? lol

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murph @ Mar 20th 2008 10:36AM

FYI: Doesn't work with WM 6.1's new sliding panel home screen.

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Mike @ Mar 20th 2008 2:52PM

I can't get this working on my HTC S620 running WM6 Standard. It says it's installed itself but then nothing much happens to the home screen, nothing prompts me to complete some next step to modify an existing home screen, and there's no icon anywhere in the start menu. I wonder what's up?