On Tuesday, Google hosted a Searchology event, during which time the company revealed a number of core search upgrades, including some dealing with mobile.
Engineering Director Scott Huffman showed how Google searchers will soon be able to automatically synch their desktop and mobile searches.
“Mobile search is growing faster than search on PCs, and it’s the primary way that people access search in some countries,” he said. “But we want [it] to become a daily engagement activity no matter where you are.”
For instance, if someone is searching for upcoming flight information on a desktop, they could have the flight’s status translate to their phone, getting rid of any need to enter the data again. Huffman said this would stop people from having to “frantically look through their baggage for the sheet of paper with the flight number on it.”
In order for this type of function to work, people would need to be logged into a Google account. Google also recently upgraded its mobile image search, which has been optimized for touch-screen phones, and launched a location-aware astronomy app for the Android mobile operating system.
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