• March 13, 2009

Google has introduced image search results for Android-powered phones and the iPhone and iPod touch devices in the U.S., U.K. and Japan. The new service allows users to scan up to 20 images on a single results page and get the details for images of interest, according to Google's mobile blog.

From the details page, users can see a larger thumbnail, visit the Web page containing the image, or view the image by itself in full size. The new results page also includes "search-by-style" filters, allowing search results to be narrowed to people's faces, clip art, line drawings or photo content. That feature was launched on main Google's image search service in December.

Separately, the company released a preview of Google Voice, an application which helps people manage their voice communications. Stemming from the GrandCentral service Google acquired in July 2007, the app allows users to get transcripts of voicemail messages on their handsets and search all SMS text messages they send or receive.

It also provides a single number to ring home, work, and mobile phones as well as a central voicemail inbox that can be accessed on the Web.--Mark Walsh