I do have to admit, this application is pretty pointless.

It’s not exactly difficult to go into Safari, add Google as a bookmark and then just use that. But for those even lazier people (Like me), Google made a nice Google iPhone Application, which is simply called Google.

So what does this actually do?

It’s a simple Google search thing by nature, but another cool feature of it is the voice search, where you can speak into the iPhone and it will search for it on Google. Since you have to wait for it to work out what you said, it probably would be quicker just to type it yourself.

There is also another section in the Google app, called “Apps”. This basically gives you a list of all of the Google services, with links to each. You can simply click the title and it will redirect you to the webpage in Safari, which again, does seem pretty pointless.

If you need to open up quite a lot of Google services (Or if you’re just curious about what sites Google runs) then it can be quite helpful. What does seem quite odd is that you cannot enter your Google account details directly into the plugin, which doesn’t really make much sense at all in my opinion.

It’s a nice little thought for iPhone owners, although it’s a perfect example of a pointless application.

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