Google Officially Brings Google Search To Windows Phone 7
Posted By Manan Kakkar On February 2, 2012 @ 4:38 am In Microsoft | No Comments
Over the past few weeks Google has started considering Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 as an OS to stay. Google Analytics started listing [1] Windows Phone as OS under mobile, followed by Google enabling multiple calendar sync [2] for Windows Phone 7.
The love did not stop there. If one visited Google’s homepage via IE on WP7, there’s a big option to pin Google on your homescreen. Here’s what it looks like:
Once pinned, a tile to google.com’s mobile website is added to the homescreen and I quite like the tile icon:
While Google doesn’t have an official app for WP7, it is an interesting approach of using Microsoft’s new found love for turning web pages into applications; a trend that will continue with Windows 8.
Update: @harsha_g11 pointed out [3] that the guys at WPCentral spotted this [4] two weeks back.
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[1] Google Analytics started listing: http://www.wpcentral.com/google-analytics-now-picks-windows-phone-os
[2] Google enabling multiple calendar sync: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2012/01/26/sync-multiple-google-calendars-search-more-gmail.aspx
[3] pointed out: https://twitter.com/harsha_g11/status/165020287295946752
[4] the guys at WPCentral spotted this: http://www.wpcentral.com/google-search-comes-around-offers-pinnable-tile-windows-phone?style_mobile=0
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