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Google has updated theirGoogle Search application for Froyo and later devices. Well, this does exclude Ice Cream Sandwich since Ice Cream Sandwich has already had much of the features in this search application. It adopts the style and features from Ice Cream Sandwich’s implementation but Google gives us a convenient run down of what’s actually [...]

Google has updated how movie results are displayed when performing a web search from a mobile device. When searching for  a movie or local theater, Google will display interactive results in a “swipeable ribbon” featuring movies posters, ratings, summaries, and showtimes. Information updates as you swipe through movies, avoiding the need to load and reload [...]

Google has tweaked the code for their image search when accessed by a tablet. Search results are now displayed as larger image files in a carousel view, accessed by tapping on an image result and swiping left or right to navigate to surrounding entries. Images load as you scroll, eliminating the need to navigate through [...]

Here at Phandroid, sometimes so much news comes our way that it would be impossible to write it all up. Other times, some articles just didn’t make the cut. For everything else, there is the Android Overload. These are the stories that didn’t quite make it onto our front page but we still felt deserved [...]

Google uploaded a pair of videos to their YouTube channel today highlighting none other than their Google Voice Search. The videos were no doubt incited from all the attention Apple’s Siri has been receiving lately and showcase a few experiments conducted by a few of Google’s Aussie engineers. The experiments show how well the Voice [...]

Looks like this dark, ugly chapter in the Nexus S novel is finally coming to an end. The voice search bug we first reported on (that would erroneously activate the application intermittently while the user is using other apps) frustrated a lot of users, but Google finally promised a fix would be here soon. Well, [...]

It was only 6 weeks ago that the Federal Trade Commission served Google with subpoenas and we now have an idea what they were looking for. The FTC antitrust probe has reportedly locked their sights onto key Google businesses like the Android operating system and Google’s Web Search. How is Android a target? Well, the [...]

Minutes ago Google published a post to their Mobile Blog detailing an update to the Search app for Android devices. For whatever reason, the post has since been pulled, but not before Phandroid reader and screen-cap ninja Art preserved a copy to share with the rest of us. The new Google Search app features an updated [...]

Google has updated Google Search (web) to improve the experience on tablet devices. Most of the changes the end-user will experience are all design. Buttons are bigger, text is more legible and images will scroll faster with better continuous scroll support. All of this is available now on your tablet’s browser – just visit http://www.google.com. [...]

A peculiar problem has been pestering Canadian Nexus S owners, particularly those with the phone tied to Rogers’ network. The phone will randomly launch functions normally associated with the search softkey without ever laying a finger on the capacitive button. This has the rather annoying effect of launching the search box or voice search randomly [...]