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Google Retools BlackBerry Browser Support
Starting today in the U.S., users of BlackBerry smartphones should begin noticing a number of improvements to their Google search results. Google has tailored its software to better accommodate the BlackBerry Web browser.Starting today in the U.S., users of BlackBerry smartphones should begin noticing a number of improvements to their Google search results. Google has tailored its software to better accommodate the BlackBerry Web browser.Google has been on a roll lately with customized phone support. It goes to greater and greater lengths to make sure each mobile phone platform has what it needs to view and use Google's mobile services better. Google has, for example, rolled out some seriously customized versions of its services for the iPhone, which has different usability characteristics than many other phones. Now, Google has turned its attention to BlackBerry users, specifically the browser.
The Official Google Mobile Blog spells out what it has done:
According to Google, these changes reflect its desktop search results pages. I was not able to test the new enhancements on a BlackBerry to confirm that. Feel free to check it out for yourself and share your experience in the comments section below.
- Improved comprehensiveness: Our mobile search now incorporates results from Product Search, Blog Search, News archives search, and more.
- Blended results: Instead of showing you web, image, local and news results in separate sections, we now combine them to improve relevance. We've also made it easier for you to focus your search on any one of these categories -- notice how the links are now placed at the top of the results page.
- Longer snippets: Web results include longer snippets so that your answer may be right on the results page.
- Related searches: At the bottom of the search results page, you'll find a list of related searches to help you refine a query.
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Enjoy and happy searching.
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