Google on Tuesday unveiled Instant Previews for mobile, a feature that will let users scroll through screen shots of Web sites before clicking through.
Sometimes the description of a Web site does not provide enough detail, and you have to click through to see if it's what you want. If you're on a slow connection, searching can be a time-consuming process. Google's Instant Previews option, therefore, will let you scroll through side-by-side snapshots of the pages displayed in search results. When you find something you like, tap on it and your phone will take you to that page.
To activate, conduct a mobile search on Google.com. Next to the results, there will be a small magnifying glass. Tap on it and Google will navigate to the Instant Previews section.
At this point, the feature works on phones running Android 2.2 or higher and Apple's iOS 4.0 and higher, in 38 languages.
"If you're looking for a webpage that has both photos and descriptions, you can use Instant Previews to quickly identify these pages by navigating across the visual search results with a few swipes of your finger," Google said in a blog post. "Or perhaps you're looking for an article, a step-by-step instructions list, or a product comparison chart—with Instant Previews, you can see easily spot pages with the right content without having to navigate back and forth between websites and search results."
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