Google Bring Gesture based search to Android

by Farhan on March 3, 2010

Over at Google Mobile Blog , Google has a new freebie for Android 2.0 and above users , Gesture Search at Google Labs  . All the user has to do is open Gesture Search and draw the corresponding letter , like if I want to search Andy , al I have to do is draw the letter A and I will get all the contacts,  installed applications , bookmarks and music tracks starting with A .

For those with a sloppy handwriting like me , it will even return matches which starts with letters which are closer to what I’ve drawn like if my A looks like H I will get both A and H results. Enter the second alphabet for a more refined search so on and so forth . The Gesture Search also keeps track of your favorites which will show up as first next time you run the query .

Google Gesture Search A Google Gesture Search N Google gesture Search refined

You can download the application from  Android Market.and more information can be obtained from Google Labs page where Google would like to have your feedback

In my opinion it’s a good approach but need improvement , why run gesture search , can’t it be always running my default so at any screen just drawing a gesture will bring out the search .  On a second thought is it the start of new hand writing recognition system for Android -  just thinking ;)

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