Google Mobile Search Adds Tappable Shortcuts

Mar 22, 2017 - 7:54 am 1 by
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Google added a new feature on mobile search, including their iOS and Android search apps, to get to shortcuts faster. They are called "tappable shortcuts" and can be accessed under the main search box.

It gives you "great tools and the ability to explore deeper within topics you care about," Google said. But it also makes the simple Google search box, um, less simple and minimalistic.

Here is a video of it in action:

This brings many of Google's cool and neat search features.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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