Google bestows home screen search upon WinMo, too

S60 ate first, but now it's Windows Mobile's turn -- a bit backward from an American perspective, to be sure, but a very logical one when you look at global market share. Google has now brought its home screen search application to the WinMo platform, noting on its blog that it has discovered that S60 and BlackBerry users with the app installed are able to get to Google search results about 40 percent quicker than those without -- and they search 20 percent more. Makes sense, considering the pain involved with loading the browser, navigating to a favorite (or even worse, typing in google.com by hand) and tapping your feet for a few seconds. The plug-in is available immediately.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 19th 2008 9:50PM]

sweet, aside from people on xda-devs doing this with a windows live hack for about the last year...

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 20th 2008 12:19AM]

Yeah and all those Treo users for the last *few* years.

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[(Unverified) Posted Mar 20th 2008 3:31AM]

The SearchToday plugin for PPC's has been around forever and lets you search google from the Today Screen

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 20th 2008 8:45AM]

WM5 on a BJII? They couldn't at least photoshop a more realistic image? lol

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 20th 2008 10:36AM]

FYI: Doesn't work with WM 6.1's new sliding panel home screen.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 20th 2008 2:52PM]

I can't get this working on my HTC S620 running WM6 Standard. It says it's installed itself but then nothing much happens to the home screen, nothing prompts me to complete some next step to modify an existing home screen, and there's no icon anywhere in the start menu. I wonder what's up?