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New Google Mobile

2 replies · 2,376 views · Started 03 April 2007

Google has rolled out a new version of its mobile optimized search site, including a simpler interface, new result page layouts, location awareness, quick links to build a mobile customized homepage and easy access to Gmail mobile. In your smartphone's web browser, type google.com/m

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Looks good, but I've set a bookmark to ".co.uk" rather than ".com". The only difference seems to be that the .com version has local search, but I think that's USA-only anyway. The mobile versions of both gmail and personalised homepage work well, although I have to follow the link to gmail from the first page rather than from my personal homepage, which seems to confuse it. It's a shame, but the Google Reader doesn't seem to want to work. That could be a good solution for us poor souls who don't have RSS-capable browsers.

There is a mobile version of the reader, at www.google.co.uk/reader/m. The confusion seems to arise when I follow links on my personalised homepage. In order to get the mobile version of each google component I have to bookmark each one.