Google recently launched a new image search results page for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android platform. The new results place up to 20 pictures on a single page, allowing users to find what they want faster and get the information they need.I use Google search on my iPhone all the time. More often than not, I am searching for images of something to share with a colleague or friend. As it was, the results were useful, but navigating around was a bit cumbersome. All the results were returned in a single column, and you had to continually scroll down to get at them. Depending on what you searched for, this list could be extensive, and you could be forced to load page after page to find what you want. It's a bit different now.

As long as you remember to search through the "images" filter first, all of the pictures are piled at the top of the results page. I performed a generic search for "guitar" using both the old and the new search tools. As stated, the old tool produced a list that I had to scroll through. Under each result was information about that image. With the new results, all the images are bunched together collage style at the top of the page. If the image I am looking for isn't in that first set of results, I can easily jump to the second page.

Once you see the image you want, tap it and it will bring up just that image. Below it are links to the Web site where that image is hosted, and a link to expand the image to fill the screen. Rather than force you to go back to the previous screen if you want to look at another image, the results have been set up into a slideshow of sorts, and you can scan sideways through them to call up the next result. This speeds up sorting through image search results immensely.

According to Google, you can also set up filters that allow you to "restrict your search results to people's faces, clip art, line drawings, or photo content."

If you're an iPhone, iPod Touch, or Android user in the United States, United Kingdom, or Japan, I'd highly recommend you check it out.