Google updates mobile search

Hot on the heels of Yahoo, Google has launched an update to its mobile search page.

There are a few major changes:

• Customize your personal home page with gadgets including stock listings, news feeds, and movie listings.
• Google's mobile search page now remembers your location. So if you were looking for movie listings in Des Moines, then decided to look for a barber shop, Google would show you barber shops in Des Moines first.
• Rather than ask you to search images, news, web pages, etc, Google now searches various media and presents the images, web pages, or other information it thinks you're most likely looking for.

While that last bullet seems like a nice idea, it's kind of tricky to implement on a small screen. Images take up a lot of space, and if you're getting images, stock quotes, and web results when you just wanted a web page, that's a lot of clutter.

Google claims that the new interface is designed to reduce the number of clicks you'll have to make to find what you're looking for. But presenting different types of search results on one page means it could take a lot of scrolling to find the page you want.

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