Google Search Mobile -- The Next Generation

Google is also rolling out a new look and feel for Google mobile search results to iPhones and Android mobile devices in the United States.

The search results page on these devices in the U.S. will have a button to the left of the search box that launches a new search options menu. Users can select any item in this menu to refine their search.

When the menu expands, the search results slide offscreen to the right. Users can still interact with those results and see them all by panning to the right.

Google has also added additional menu options such as "News" and "Products."

It plans to support more devices and locales in the future and expanding the number of options available.
Managing the Rollouts

Google is rolling out the updates to users in 37 languages. Apart from English, they include Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish, Swedish and Lithuanian, Google's Tyler said.

The rollout is being handled in stages, so not all users will get them at the same time, even here in the U.S.

"To ensure the stable launch of large changes like this, we roll products out to our users gradually, testing performance as we go," Tyler explained. Google expects to complete the rollout Thursday.

"Staging an update is typical business practice for large websites or cloud service providers," Dan Kusnetzky, an analyst at the 451 Group, told TechNewsWorld."This allows issues to be discovered and resolved prior to a full-scale replacement of previous technology."