Internet giant Google has launched a new service for mobile phones designed to produce faster and more relevant results for local search.Available in the US since March 2007, the service has now been expanded to the UK, Germany, France and Canada.
As part of the revamp, Google says it has streamlined the interface and introduced an experience that, it hopes, will be more relevant to mobile handset users.
Previously users were offered a search box and a number of radio buttons for different types of results, such as images and news. Now, they will now be able to view the results together.
This means that people will no longer have to specify what type of search they wish to conduct.
A Google spokesman stated: "The big thing that people will notice is that they just get the results they want, without them having to think ahead of time what sort of information they are looking for," the BBC reports.
"You don't have to click through so many pages on that tiny little screen and on those tiny little buttons," he added.
Another improvement in the service provided by Google means that the mobile search facility will remember a user's recent search locations, so that when they hunt for things such as restaurants and weather on subsequent occasions it will focus on that area.
Google's mobile search enables users to access web pages, images, local listings and mobile-specific web pages through the Google search engine.
