Google Reformats Web Sites for Phones
With no Portable Google Machine on the horizon, Google is providing a new option for mobile phone users looking up a quick answer to their query: automatically reformatting the top search result for small screens. The page's layout is translated through Google's servers and broken up into smaller pieces.
"What if, say, you're out somewhere and absolutely must know if that new Super Monkey Ball game for the Nintendo DS is in stores yet?" asked Google engineer Roger Skubowius. "The whole idea is to get you the information you want as quickly as possible, so you can spend less time downloading and scrolling through long documents on a pocket-sized screen."
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