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Google patent points at search-specific Android gestures

24 February 2012 by Michael Crider Discuss (0)

Never one to settle for the status quo, Google seems to be investigating in never-before-seen methods of gesture control for Android or other touch-based systems. A newly published patent from 2011 indicates that software engineers have come up with a unique method of highlighting and searching for various types of content using a system that recalls Palm’s old Graffiti input. …

Yahoo unveils new app search option for Android

03 February 2012 by Cory Gunther Discuss (0)

Yahoo, that search engine you used sometime back in the 90′s is apparently staying with the times and have just added an entirely new option to their search results. Updating and trying to stay relevant they’ve added an “Apps” tab right to their front page for search results. If you had a hard time finding …

Google Images gets a makeover on Android tablets

08 December 2011 by Michael Crider Discuss (0)

Google announced via its Mobile Blog that the standard image search on Android and iOS tablets is getting a significant update today, not unlike the previous standard search update. There’s some adjusted UI settings to take advantage of the larger form factor, most notably an infinite scroll feature that will continually load images as you …

Ice Cream Sandwich gets dedicated search button mod

22 November 2011 by Chris Davies Discuss (0)

Google may be a search company first and foremost, but Ice Cream Sandwich shifts Android away from a dedicated search button and replaces it with the app switcher. Using virtual buttons has benefits for modders, however, and MoDaCo’s Paul O’Brien has wasted no time in adding a dedicated search option in the ICS button bar. As you’d …

Google Offices Raided by Korean Fair Trade Commission

06 September 2011 by Chris Burns Discuss (1)

It appears that Google’s Seoul offices have been raided today by Korean trustbusters looking for information on the possible stoppering of search opponents in the company’s mobile operating system Android. Search engine company NHN (popular in the area) and Daum Communications this past April asked the country’s Fair Trade Commission to investigate Google’s mobile search …

Quixey App Search Receives $3.8 Million for Development

30 August 2011 by Cory Gunther Discuss (0)

With hundreds and thousands of mobile applications available and more being added each day, don’t you wish there was an easier way to search for apps? Recently the App search service Quixey signed a deal with investors for around $3.8 million to help with research, development and to help grow new partnerships. With Quixey users …

Developers angry at Android Market search shakeup

27 July 2011 by Shane McGlaun Discuss (3)

Many developers of apps on the Android Market are unhappy today with the change of the search functionality on the Android Market. The search tweaks have seen a lot of developers that had popular apps in the past plummet in popularity and search ranking. The shakeup has seen apps that previously ranked very highly for …

Android Market now Available Via Google Mobile Search

28 October 2010 by Dylan Bailey Discuss (0)

It’s been hinted at for a while now, and it’s here. Now users have the option of seeing Android Market search results directly from their mobile browser via Google Search.

AppBrain now filters Adobe Air apps

11 October 2010 by Shane McGlaun Discuss (1)

If you downloaded Adobe Air when it launched last week and have been wondering what to do with it, AppBrain makes it easy to find new apps that use Air. AppBrain has a new filter that will sort by apps that use Air.

Get Google Search on your Verizon Fascinate before 2.2 (without root)

13 September 2010 by Dylan Bailey Discuss (0)

Since the announcement of Bing on some of Verizon’s handsets many people want Google search back on their Android phones. Now that is possible on the newly released Fascinate with just a third-party launcher and a single download. This does not require root and brings native Google search and voice search back to the homescreen.

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