Comments on: Google format search page specially for iPhone http://www.iphonebuzz.com/google-format-search-page-specially-for-iphone-251280.php tracking the iPhone revolution Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:31:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Patrick Murphy http://www.iphonebuzz.com/google-format-search-page-specially-for-iphone-251280.php/comment-page-1#comment-6187 Patrick Murphy Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:33:52 +0000 http://www.myitablet.com/google-format-search-page-specially-for-iphone-251280.php#comment-6187 The long URL is not a problem. On the iPhone's Safari browser, if you enter "google" in the address bar, the phone first goes to "www.google.com", then at Google they somehow know you're on an iPhone and they append "/m" to the URL, which automatically loads the iPhone-formatted Google results. In fact, from the iPhone Safari address bar, you cannot get to the standard Google results page! If you backspace to manually remove the "/m" (so the address is simply "www.google.com"), the resulting page gets the "/m" appended again so you see the iPhone Google results. Ironically, if Google is your default search engine in iPhone Safari, search results currently come up using the standard Google results format. Perhaps in the future this will change to the new Google iPhone results format. The long URL is not a problem. On the iPhone’s Safari browser, if you enter “google” in the address bar, the phone first goes to “www.google.com”, then at Google they somehow know you’re on an iPhone and they append “/m” to the URL, which automatically loads the iPhone-formatted Google results.

In fact, from the iPhone Safari address bar, you cannot get to the standard Google results page! If you backspace to manually remove the “/m” (so the address is simply “www.google.com”), the resulting page gets the “/m” appended again so you see the iPhone Google results.

Ironically, if Google is your default search engine in iPhone Safari, search results currently come up using the standard Google results format. Perhaps in the future this will change to the new Google iPhone results format.

]]> By: Vincent Nguyen http://www.iphonebuzz.com/google-format-search-page-specially-for-iphone-251280.php/comment-page-1#comment-6174 Vincent Nguyen Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:21:51 +0000 http://www.myitablet.com/google-format-search-page-specially-for-iphone-251280.php#comment-6174 If you find what you're looking for on the first page, things should be fine. However, should you need more results, google kicks ya' right back to the original format of the website ---- booo! If you find what you’re looking for on the first page, things should be fine. However, should you need more results, google kicks ya’ right back to the original format of the website —- booo!

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