Weekly Roundup: Google

It is a common thing today that when you are in search of something, instead of asking someone for answer, you just type in your inquiry on Google search box. Anyway, that’s how Google become an important part of life. But before anything else, let’s be informed of what’s happening inside the company:

1. In the White House’s state dinner for China last Wednesday, no one from Google found time to attend the said event. On the official guest list, names like Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Intel CEO Paul Otellini, Motorola Solutions CEO Greg Brown and many other business leaders were present. Although it is common knowledge thatGoogle CEO Eric Schmidt and President Obama are colleagues, this absence can’t help but be related to China and Google’s clash about properties.

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Apple Approves GV Mobile +

The masters behind the Google Voice app for iPhone – GV Mobile + – announced today that Apple approved their app. Yesterday, GV Connect popped out of the App Store, with another reversal of Apple’s policy. Apple initially gave permission to the Google Voice apps but banned them from the App Store because of the “duplicated” iPhone features.

Any supporter of Google Voice knows that this is not a fair assessment on the matter.The apps are providing a different twist on the features through Google Voice service. Helping you create and use a virtual phone number of your choice plus added features to give extra services to your phones.

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Google Predictions on Mobile Coming this Fall

Expect the unexpected guys, but this fall Google Instant Search will launch its first mobile phone app.

Earlier today, the search titan released its Google Instant to the people of the web. A dramatic change to Google’s search engine delivering for real search results as you type without the click of the mouse. As a matter of fact, the company calls it “search before you type”. Because Instant Search will predict what you’re about to type and delivers search results based on predictions.

Today’s big announcement marked the change in the search space, but this didn’t give satisfaction to our icon. It wants mobile dominance too.

Instant Search for mobile works just like the desktop app. Start typing a word and Google delivers search results that you might want. A few restrictions though was tagged along, 3G connection speeds, no tab button for some phones and not all mobile phone can support this. But the demo looks charming. We wish it works best on iPhone and Android phones. Google also noted that some of their mobile apps will support this new feature.

Sneak peek of the Google Instant Search for mobile:

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