With the absolute explosion of mobile computing, including cellular phone use, the search industry has not been shy about its embrace of these users.
Most, if not all, of the major search entities feature services designed for the mobile user. Google has long had such a service, but now they are releasing a revamped version that supports a number of different languages. Now supporting 80 different languages (including Elmer Fudd and Klingon), Google Mobile Search is positioning itself to be the flagship mobile search engine.
According to the Google Blog, they’ve created a special index of sites designed specifically for the mobile user. This means they are the sites are designed to be smaller in order to support the decreased viewing space, a seemingly permanent fixture for the mobile phone industry.
Google’s mobile search page features directions on how to use their multi-lingual service:
- Access your phone’s mobile web browser.
- Type http://www.google.com in the URL field (if you get an error message, type www.google.com/xhtml).
- Type your search query.
- Select “Mobile Web ” then scroll up to highlight the “Google Search” button and press “Enter.”
- Ten results will appear per page.
* Select the desired page by scrolling through the results page and selecting the corresponding image
* Or scroll down to the bottom of the page, select the “Next” link to view the next ten results
For questions concerning Google Mobile Search, please visit their FAQ.
Chris Richardson is a search engine writer and editor for Murdok. Visit Murdok for the latest search news.
