The redesigned Google Search app for iPad presents you with a simple home screen with a large search field for you to type your query. You can also search by using voice commands or Goggles, which allows you to search for items by taking photos of them with the iPad camera. You can also Google’s main services from the home screen, such as Gmail, Calendar, News or Maps.
Once you enter your search term, results will start to display instantly as you type, so there’s no need to press the search button altogether. Google has worked a lot on refining the results browsing experience. For regular search results, you can switch to instant preview mode, where you are presented with a series of sliding page snapshots from the top results of your query.
The image results browser has been redesigned, too. When you tap on the first image result, you are presented with a carousel (similar to iTunes CoverFlow) of images that you browse by swiping left or right. Tapping on an image then opens in a viewer panel the page containing the respective image.
Here’s a video from Google demoing the new Search app for iPad:
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