Google Search for iPhone

Google Search for Phones

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About Google Search for iphones

Most likely you've already got Google search on your iPhone, via the handhelds Safari mobile browser search bar (though you may not know that you can change this to Bing or Yahoo, too), so why install an app, as well? The Google app adds a few nifty tricks of its own, including voice search, Google goggles for visual search using the iPhone's camera, local search, and search suggestions and history. The Bing iPhone app offers most of the same features, and Dragon Go uses your voice for search and can even open other apps based on your search. And we can't forget Ask iPhone app, which also does speech. How does the Web search leader stack up to the competition when it comes to its mobile app? Read on to find out.

Voice Search

I clicked the microphone icon, clearly said "sell a used car" and the Google app came up with "how are used car." But it was easy enough to drop down the green-tinted results for more choices. Ask came up with "salary used car," which doesn't make much sense. Dragon Go came closer, with "selling used car" and Bing, which was the only app to play helpful sounds indicating when I should speed and when it was thinking, came up with the closest result, "sell used car."

Interface Google Search for Phones

The Google iPhone app's interface is much more bare-bones than the rest, in typical Google fashion, mostly displaying a plain white screen. If you've done a search in a previous run of the app, the lower half of the screen will show the first result from your last search. At the bottom of the screen is an Apps button, which brings up a menu of other Google services, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs—17 in all. Google+ hasn't made it here yet, though Orkut, a previous social network attempt is. Tapping any of these links simply opens Safari mobile to the mobile Web page for the chosen service.

The main point of the interface is the search bar, which on the app is flanked by two important icons—a microphone and a camera. These, as you might have guessed, open the voice search and Google Goggles visual search features. Up top are the setting and help question mark icons. Touching the latter simple overlays the screen with more question marks that you can tap for an explanation of that part of the screen's function. The most important settings are for SafeSearch, Voice search (with its "Just talk" option that saves you from pressing the mic icon), and enabling Goggles.

The interface makes some interesting use of the swiping gesture. When you slide your digit towards the right on the screen, you reveal a sidebar of search result filters, just like the Google website's sidebar. The choices here let you limit your results to Places, Images, News, Shopping, Blogs, and so on. The actual results appear exactly the way they do on the Google mobile site, and ads sometimes only leave room for one result. The Instant results were a unique plus for Google, though, sometimes showing a result before I'd even finished entering the query.

Searching for the Right Search App

As I said at the start of this review, you don't really need to install an app on your iPhone for straight Web search: That's built into the device's browser. What these apps get you are the extras like voice and camera search. The mobile Web versions of Google and Bing even have the location and search suggestion features of these apps. So, if voice and visual search and search history are the only true adds of these apps over their browser-based, Bing is our Editors' Choice for iPhone search, with Google and Dragon Go close behind.

Camera Search with Google Goggles

When I pointed my iPhone at a software box and clicked the camera icon, several rectangles of different size and color floated up the screen, and finally the picture stopped, with three rectangles matching three color coded results below them. When I clicked on the first, which had correctly recognized the product name, Google showed me an Amazon link where I could purchase the software. When I did the same in Bing for iPhone, the app told me it was searching for cover art and text, and I could select text on the image—niftier. The Bing result also found the product merchant number and brought me to a page that not only more clearly gave me the option to buy it, but displayed the price and an image of the box.

Another difference between the Bing and Google apps' camera search is that Google supposedly adds the ability to search more than product cover art, text, and barcodes: It also has object search. But everything I tried to find this way turned out useless results. I shot a professional photo lamp, and among the "similar images" the app suggested was a nude male sculpture. Shots of a popular webcam and a laptop were equally unhelpful. Bing probably has the right idea here in sticking with identifiable products.

Both the Google and Bing apps do a good job of search suggestion, but Google lacks Bing's back and forward buttons to take you through your search history.

Another piece of the Google iPhone app artillery is location search. To test location search, I entered the query "current temperature" with location services enabled in settings for all apps. For this question in the Bing and Dragon Go apps, I got a result showing me the current local temperature and weather. In the Google app, though, the results were another click away—I had to tap the "Use location" button. In Ask's app, I was prompted to enter my ZIP code. Clear wins for Bing and Dragon Go.
For another location test, I entered "pizza" (you can be sure there are plenty of local pizzerias in the New York City location I was testing in). The Google and Bing apps showed some nearby top picks, even including star ratings and phone links, while the Ask app presented links for Amazon pizza recipes and national chains and Dragon Go brought up the relevant Yelp page. So, all but Ask were satisfactory.

Pros
Voice search. Visual search with Google Goggles. Instant results.

Cons
No back arrow to page through previous searches. Voice recognition not as accurate as others. Goggles produces dubious results. Local results require extra click.

Bottom Line
The Google iPhone app brings voice and visual search on your Apple mobile or iPod touch, as well as Instant results as you key in your query. Bing's app is slightly more useful, however.

Specifications
Type - Personal
Free - Yes
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Updated, exceptionally detailed map software you can use anywhere - on the go with your laptop PC, netbook, touchscreen phone or PDA. No Internet access or subscription required. Get street-level detail for the U.S. and Canada, plus highways and major roads for Mexico. Pre-plan your trips with automatic routing and over 4 million places of interest. User controls let you plan side trips, avoid congested areas, choose back roads, and more.

Locate restaurants, lodgings, attractions, truck stops, sports venues, and businesses of all kinds. Calculate fuel usage and costs. Customize the maps to meet your needs. Import aerial imagery. Print a wide variety of map packages, or use MapShare to send maps, routes, and directions to others via a secure Web link. GPS-ready - connect a DeLorme Earthmate or other receiver to your laptop and receive spoken directions. New E-Z Nav wizard makes on-the-go searching and routing a breeze. Use NavMode for optional 3-D perspective.

MapShare
MapShare makes it easy to share your customized maps and directions with family, friends, and business associates. You create exactly the content you want and then post within our online MapShare library, which includes private administrative tools for you to manage. Similar to some of the better online photo resources, MapShare allows you to provide controlled access to your important maps without worrying about email and spam filters.

E-Z Nav Wizard Details:
Try out the new E-Z Nav wizard for on-the-go routing. Just search on any category (see below), choose your destination (retailer, hospital, gas station, friends address, etc), and start real-time navigation with your GPS receiver. Great for daily and overall trip planning, too.

Printing & Sharing

Print
Print crisp color or black & white maps that you control to best match what is seen on screen. Also print Travel Packages containing strip maps and directions to bring on your trip. Dont want to use a lot of ink and paper? Then print just the Turn Details which show thumbnail maps of each of the decision points along your route.

E-Z Nav Search Categories:
A New Address, Saved Locations, Food & Restaurants, Auto & Travel, Entertainment & Recreation, Emergency & Community

GPS Spoken Directions
The software can offer voice directions indicating upcoming turns and street names. It also can be set up to respond to your voice and answer common travel questions--a very powerful capability for mapping software within this price category. Several different voice types are included.

Much More Powerful than Online Mapping
Comprehensive tools for detailed desktop planning of your vacation or sales trip BEFORE you go, AND for on-the-go traveling using the latest electronic gear. Most other vehicle GPS systems are NOT planning tools and only track as you go. Support for Windows Vista, Pocket PCs, Windows Mobile 5.0 and later, UMPCs, and Palm OS included.

Automatic Back-on-Track GPS
Using the Earthmate GPS LT-40, which turns a laptop PC into a powerful GPS navigator, its possible to have the software offer new spoken and visual directions when you stray off course. Within the GPS tab of the Options section of the E-Z Nav toolbar, you can select or type the off-route distances you want to travel before the automatic recalculations kick in. Select short distances for city travel and longer ones for highway travel where you may exit frequently for roadside travel services.

The GPS Leader
Innovative GPS features: 2-D and 3-D NavMode voice commands, spoken directions, automatic back-on-track re-routing with off-route distance settings, high contrast mobile map colors, and much more. All in addition to the new E-Z Nav Search feature.

GPS Features

GPS Radar Search
Now you can travel with GPS and have the software find upcoming travel services based on their location from you. Find gas, hotels, shopping, and much more in your direction of travel and then easily make detours to these desired stops along the way.

Its like having your personal travel concierge with you at all times.

Up-to-Date Maps & Travel Information
Comprehensive street and POI updates for the U.S and Canada, now with Mexico highways. Over 300,000 new or updated roads for 2010. Powerful travel planning tools, MapShare, and many data types.

Places of Interest (POI) Data
The DeLorme database contains over 4 million annually updated places of interest across the U.S., with additional ones in Canada, including restaurants, lodgings, gas stations, travel services, RV stops, truck stops, malls, shopping - just about everything you could ever need on the road. The software settings let you choose the magnification level to display the various POIs to void cluttering your map views. The POIs can be accessed using the many Find capabilities or by right-clicking on the map and selecting places based on type and distance from map center.

Download Aerial Imagery
Download $40 of aerial imagery FREE using included DeLorme Data Dollars and the softwares NetLink tab. Imagery can be used with all of the Street Atlas USA routing, GPS, and draw tools.

Map Data
Because all DeLorme map data is created, updated annually, and owned by DeLorme, we are able to provide many features typically reserved for expensive in-vehicle navigation systems. Free from the license restrictions and third-party dependencies of other publishers, we can also evaluate customer-submitted revisions and implement these changes after triple-checking all submissions.

DeLorme currently has an enhanced commitment with staff in place to make as many customer revisions as possible.

Authentic DeLorme Maps
Not licensed from 3rd party companies, the updated maps and 4 million places of interest are produced by experienced mapmakers at DeLorme.

Core Functions

Personalized Routing with Address Book
Create and save commonly-used names for places you visit often, such as "home," work," or "Dads." Once these names are assigned, the routing Starts, Stops, and Finishes also display these names making retrieval easy for repeated usage. Customize routes using your own names and save them within MapShare for others to see - theyll be amazed. You can also include up to 200 names from your address book to be recognized using this system.

Map & Travel Information

Map Controls
The maps can be controlled using a variety of methods, including the traditional push-button zooming, which drills in/out while keeping the map exactly centered. Also, holding down the left mouse button enables you to drag and zoom, left-to-right, across the map, and moving the mouse in the same manner but in the opposite direction zooms out.

Add Local Roads to Routing
A DeLorme exclusive, this is the best way to update local roads when new developments are planned or added between DeLorme software releases. This tool is located within the Draw tab and lets you draw in the road segment, connecting it to another local road within the database. Assign a name, save it, and when you create automatic routes, the software is smart enough to include these new local roads in the routing calculations and also update the directions.

Find
DeLorme employs several powerful search capabilities within the software. The first is a simple box called QuickSearch where you type common requests including towns, cities, lat/lons, ZIP codes, street addresses, colleges, and many more to receive the quickest possible matches. The places-of-interest search offers more advanced parameters and the advanced search is used when locating exact matches requires additional customer input.

Routing
Create automatic routes using the quickest (time) or shortest (distance) routes. Use the E-Z Nav wizard if routing from a search result. Add VIAs to force the routing to take the roads you prefer. Turn on one-way indicators; select major areas to avoid; or select roads based on driving speed preferences. Add Stops and reorganize their order and the routing automatically recalculates. Create and manage routes either in the Route tab or by right-clicking on the maps. New translucent route highlight lets you see exit numbers and route shields beneath the route highlight.

Draw
Add MapNotes; draw your own circles, polygons, and squares; measure the area of your draw objects--even draw in your own roads and route on them--these are amazingly powerful draw tools for the money.

Right-Click Routing
The easiest way for many to create and alter routes is to use the right-click feature. Select the route on your map and add new stops or vias, delete the route, all by simply right-clicking the object of interest. You can also add your own MapNotes or view the many pre-populated tags provided by the software.

Info
Right-click on the map to learn more about whats underneath your cursor. Lat/Lon, names of streets and bodies of water--even local radio station information--can be viewed in this manner. Moreover, the bottom toolbar of the software displays a continuously updated readout of whats underneath your cursor.

Keyboard Shortcuts
Set your own keyboard shortcut preferences for optimum control when using GPS. The key-bindings function is very powerful and advanced so you can design your ideal in-vehicle navigation solution to your personal specifications.

Voice
Use your voice for issuing routing and GPS commands while tracking. Ask common questions such as "How far to my next turn?" and the software answers. Microphone recommended for optimal usage. The software also reads upcoming turn information, including the time to turn, time to finish, and name of the street to turn onto. New voice settings allow you to select how far in advance of your turn youd like to be prompted. Voice can also be turned off if you prefer.

NavMode
NavMode brings together all the primary GPS controls and readouts needed when using the GPS. Large-screen views make it easy to see the map and directions. You can switch between 2-D (standard) map view and 3-D perspective view for lifelike views.

Netlink and Aerial Imagery
NetLink is your online link to DeLorme for $40 of free aerial imagery now included with the Street Atlas USA 2010 versions. Select your areas of interest and download only those grids to the software. Toggle the imagery on and off in a single-screen view. Add notes and draw objects to the imagery to customize lifelike views from space.

E-Z Nav Wizard
New E-Z Nav wizard makes on-the-go searching and routing a breeze. Just search on any category (see below), choose your destination (retailer, hospital, gas station, friends address, etc), and start real-time navigation with your GPS receiver on your dashboard. Great for daily and overall trip planning, too.

Mobile Device Mapping
Pocket PC, Windows Mobile 5.0 and later, and Palm OS Compatible
Included at no extra charge is the DeLorme Handheld software, which now includes support for Windows Mobile 5.0 and later devices. Access the maps you want from the desktop software and hot-sync to your PDA. Add a DeLorme Bluetooth GPS for use with Bluetooth PDAs and navigate wire-free.

The DeLorme handheld functionality provides address-to-address routing, spoken directions, mobile map colors to reduce in-vehicle glare, and four million places of interest. Finding what you need is easy using the powerful search capabilities. Now you have powerful desktop mapping software and PDA software all conveniently provided in one Street Atlas USA 2010 package.

Maps on iPods
Using a tool similar to how MapShare works, now you can select the maps you want from the desktop software and send them to your photo-capable iPod. These map images are static (e.g., cannot be manipulated once on the iPod) and come across in the order you select them, same as with photos. Once on your device, you can access the ones you need, when you need them. Due to the small screen size of iPods, we recommend these maps for urban walking situations where you can discretely reference the maps you need. (Not GPS compatible.)

Convenience and Security on the Road.
Imagery can be used with all of the Street Atlas USA routing, GPS, and draw tools.

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