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    Google Product Search Formatted for Android, iPhone

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    Nicholas Kolakowski
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    April 23, 2009
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      Google announced a mobile-friendly version of its Product Search application, emphasizing its utility for iPhone and Android-powered devices, in an April 23 corporate blog posting.

      Google Product Search, which can be found here, allows users to type whatever they’re searching for – such as “server software” – into the search bar and receive results pulled from a variety of shopping sites.

      On their smartphone’s browser, users can navigate to Google.com, type in the name of a particular product, and then click or touch the “Shopping” link that appears in the search results. They could also click “More” on Google’s main search page, and then click “Shopping” to access Product Search.

      “Say you’re in a store and having a hard time deciding between two products,” Rob Stacey, a software engineer with the Google mobile team, wrote on the Official Google Mobile Blog. “Instead of waiting to go home to check the Internet for ratings and reviews, you can now get all of this information right there on the spot.”

      Google has increasingly geared itself toward smartphone variants on its core products, particularly as the iPhone gains in popularity and Google’s Android operating system becomes more prevalent within the global mobile-device ecosystem.

      On April 14, Google released the Google Android 1.5 “Early Look” SDK for developers, including a number of new-and-improved tools such as user interface refinements to the browser. The Early Look SDK features a different component structure than earlier SDKs, and does not work with older Eclipse plug-ins (ADT 0.8), which in turn do not work with the new Eclipse plug-in (ADT 0.9).

      Google has adjusted other products in its line to run more effectively on Android, including an updated version of Gmail specifically designed to run faster on the Android Web browser.

      In an April 16 earnings call, Google CEO Eric Schmidt suggested that Android would have “a very, very strong year” in 2009.

      “We’re already aware of many, many uses of Android, which as you know is open source,” Schmidt added. “The open source part of the strategy is working.”

      Since making its debut in August 2008, Android has been slowly penetrating the mobile market, with analysts predicting that it will be running on 12 percent of global smartphone shipments by 2012. Companies ranging from Dell to Hewlett-Packard and T-Mobile have been planning a variety of applications for Android, which by the end of 2009 will likely begin a substantial rollout into the mini-notebook, i.e., “netbook” market.

      Nicholas Kolakowski
      Nicholas Kolakowski is a staff editor at eWEEK, covering Microsoft and other companies in the enterprise space, as well as evolving technology such as tablet PCs. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Playboy, WebMD, AARP the Magazine, AutoWeek, Washington City Paper, Trader Monthly, and Private Air. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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