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Android Google Search Over Bing

Marilyn Torres — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:08:45 +0000

Again I’m looking apologetically at my AT&T Tilt, but Android has boiled down searching the internet or a handset into one button push. On the HTC Hero there is a dedicated Search button on the front of the handset that brings up the Google Search field on the home screen or any panel. After a search term is entered, the number of hits auto-populate in a pull-down menu. Then, the browser goes straight to the full web browser Google search results. The search button also searches trending topics through HTC’s Twitter app, Peep, the Android Market, and anything else on the handset depending on what application is open.

Now I wonder why Microsoft wants to introduce an upgrade to Bing Mobile, an app that for all intents and purposes searches the internet like Google Maps. Whatever happened to polishing Pocket Internet Explorer to the point where it’s used for more than just downloading another browser like Skyfire, Fennec, or NetFront? Bing is a quick and easy search provider to use on a desktop, and the Internet Explorer Bing search add-on is handy for a quick spell or grammar check, but if Bing continues on it’s current mobile path as an app it’s doomed redundancy. I’m hoping those other “exciting announcements” regarding Bing will aim higher than Google Maps at least. Until then, I’ll continue to search through Google Maps or a mobile browser.

Source: Windows Mobile Training

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A Mobile Version of Bing

Jack Cook — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:53:08 +0000

BaDa (Mobile) Bing!

Recently Microsoft introduced their NEW search called Bing and my guess is that many, if not all of you, have tried it. So far, I’ve been really pleased with the results and in fact it has been the ONLY Search Engine that I have been using since its introduction. That is not because I think it is the best but rather because I really want to give it a good workout. So to my surprise (again), there was yet another “quiet” release from Microsoft and that was the mobile version of Bing.

Have you tried it? If not, you may want to run it through its paces as well. I think you will like it. So check it out and point your mobile browser to http://m.bing.com.

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Google Products on the T-mobile G1

Jack Cook — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:33:35 +0000

Thinking about getting the G1? Here is an an overview of Google products on the world’s first Android-powered phone, the T-mobile G1.

To learn more, click this link: http://www.google.com/mobile/android/

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