Google today brought its Instant Previews to mobile devices for the first time. Both Android and iOS now see a magnifying glass next to search results that will shift them to a thumbnail view of pages in the search results. The previews are optimized for touch and let users swipe through them much as they would the phone’s home screen.
The implementation needs a more recent HTML5 capable mobile browser and will so far only work on Android 2.2 or iOS 4. Google hasn’t said if it plans to implement the feature on other platforms.
Instant Previews should be available worldwide in 38 different languages.
