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Google Search and The Transcoder

September 02, 2007 by Jason

Many of us tried to access Google Search from a mobile device and even if the company allows such operations, viewing the results provided by the search engine was very difficult. Google launched a tool that allows users to visit all the pages from a mobile phone without any issue using a special transcoder.

T.V. Raman, Research Scientist at Google, posted a message in his blog to present and describe the new utility: “designed for cell phone users, I find the Google web transcoder has become an indispensable tool for me when I’m confronted with complex web pages. In fact when one searches the web using mobile phones, Google search hits often get redirected to go through the transcoder in order to provide the mobile user with a web page that works on small displays. Read More»