Google will soon release a new version of the Google Search app for Android with some handy user experience improvements. The app will group suggestions by content type, with Web search results at the top. It will also offer country-specific suggestions and results for all international Google domains. It adds several new gestures for editing or removing search history items. The overall interface has been simplified, and performance has been smoothed out.
Google published the announcement on their Google Mobile blog, but it has since been removed, and the update is not yet live. We will update when the app is released.
These are sensible improvements for a mobile search interface, and the app has several compelling features that make it a good starting point for any kind of search from the phone, such as setting other apps on the phone as searchable items. Search is Google’s forte, obviously, and these improvements make native search on Android into an even more powerful mobile tool.
