Google on your Pocket PC

[Ed Hansberry]

<a href="http://www.google.com/ie">http://www.google.com/ie</a><br /><br />Google has a new page that seems to be for Pocket PC users. &lt;!><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/google.jpg" /><br /><br />They have had the <a href="www.google.com/palm">www.google.com/palm</a> link for a while which works great on Pocket PC's too, but this new one has some cool things, like color! <img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif" /><br /><br />Just an FYI - Amazon has one too at <a href="http://www.amazon.com/pocketpc">www.amazon.com/pocketpc</a>. Too bad they don't sniff for the browser and take you there automatically.

[Jason Dunn]

Cool! I was hoping they'd do this!

[Arne Hess]

Now I know that Ed never read PPCW.Net... ;-)

Goole is PPC optimzed since last year... :P

http://www.ppcw.net/stories.php?story=01/12/10/4843489

http://www.ppcw.net/images/column/google/snap009.gif

Another mobile version of Google is this i-Mode reduced url: http://www.google.com/imode?hl=en

[Ant]

This is hard to find at the google site but it's my favorite feature.

This page you're describing was actually set up to be a replacement for the side search window in internet explorer. Go to

http://www.google.com/options/defaults.html

and search for "Download this file to make Google the default search engine for Internet Explorer"

click on it and the side search window will be google'd.

It's a great page for Pocket PC but you're missing out if you're not using this feature on your desktop.

[Arne Hess]

This is hard to find at the google site but it's my favorite feature.
This page you're describing was actually set up to be a replacement for the side search window in internet explorer.
Ah! That explains it! So it isn't the PPC optimized version but a general IE hack... Okay, but nice that it also works so briliant on the PPC. :-)

BTW: I'm using the Google Toolbar and love it!

[Ed Hansberry]

Now I know that Ed never read PPCW.Net... ;-)

Goole is PPC optimzed since last year... :P

There is too much stuff out there Arne! 8O I can't get to all of them.
:lol:

[Arne Hess]

There is too much stuff out there Arne! 8O I can't get to all of them. :lol:
Oh yes, man I know what you mean. But there are only a handful must's - now it's up to you to define which one... :wink: :wink: :wink:
Just kidding... :lol:

[mmidgley]

> Too bad they don't sniff for the browser

:evil: My bank has this exact problem. Their SSL secure site worked when PPC first arrived, but later they decided to make it "better". Although my PPC2002 iPAQ has the necessary SSL security capability, it doesn't understand their new JavaScripting, starting with their 'Login' button. After hunting around on the phone for a while, a tech was able to tell me of an alternate URL that did simple banking--it worked, but only gave a subset of the features the regular site had. Again after more phone time I was given an URL that had a simple interface, but gave access to the full feature set the bank offers online, but it choked on the agent string. So after I did the registry hack to fake the web server that I was using a desktop browser, everything worked.

Its really stupid when they design a simple site specifically for wireless handhelds, and don't bother to research what handhelds and what software is popular these days. One simple change and I wouldn't have to hack my registry (which I'm not affraid to do, but prefer not to because in general its a shaky thing to do, but also if a website *does* understand the original PPC agent string, I won't get their PPC content!).

m.

[wiredguy]

Google has a new page that seems to be for Pocket PC users.

By the "ie" in the link it looks like the search page for Internet Explorers search bar. Makes me think there will be many other search engines that have pages for PIE, as the search bar is about the right width.

[Aceze]

> Too bad they don't sniff for the browser
Its really stupid when they design a simple site specifically for wireless handhelds, and don't bother to research what handhelds and what software is popular these days. One simple change and I wouldn't have to hack my registry (which I'm not affraid to do, but prefer not to because in general its a shaky thing to do, but also if a website *does* understand the original PPC agent string, I won't get their PPC content!).
m.

I think it's the other way round. I think it's stupid that MS puts this practically useless browser on the machine, when they can do a 1000% better job with javascript support, SSL support, etc, ad nauseam. When a competing product (Opera on the Zaurus) can do everything a good desktop browser can (SSL, Java/Javascript, style sheets, etc) why cant the browser on the PPC? Why is it so bad at rendering pages quickly as well?

Aceze

[Brad Adrian]

There is too much stuff out there Arne! 8O I can't get to all of them.
:lol:

You're always around when a good rant is needed, though!

[BevHoward]

very nice... the previous PDA version of google was overoptomized for palms and made the assumption that normal pages would not display and processed them down to text only... I had gone back to the general google page which, while not ideal, worked on a ppc.

This is nice because of the condensed topics.

One additional note... on the google.com page, there are some options, such as the dictionary lookup, at the top in different shades of blue... and the PPC colors rendered them invisible.