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Instant gratification - your way
August 31, 2005
Posted by Peiling Yao, Google Mobile Team
In the movie
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
, do you remember
Veruca Salt
, the girl who kept screaming, "I want it NOW, daddy!" Well, that's pretty much how I feel about
searching the web on my mobile phone
. It takes longer for pages to load, and it's not easy entering text in the first place - so I want the answer NOW, Google!
For all you Verucas out there, we engineers have been working on
three new Google search features for mobile phones
. Starting today, if you type [movies] or [weather] and a location, or enter a stock ticker symbol, we'll show, predictably enough, movie showtimes, weather forecasts, or live stock quotes above the Google web search results that display on your phone.
Talk about instant gratification - and the best part? No golden tickets required.
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