Google enables faster search for mobile users

Google enables faster search for mobile users

Google added new features to speed up web searches for mobile users. On Tuesday at a briefing in San Francisco Google demonstrated a new feature called Instant Pages which allows certain Web pages to pop-up in a user's Web browser nearly instantaneously, as well as a revamped version of its website for mobile devices.

The Mountain View noted that traffic coming from mobile devices such as smartphones has increased by a factor of five during the past two years.

"We see all this mobile traffic growing on top of our desktop (PC) traffic," Google Fellow Amit Singhal said.

New Instant Page feature can eliminate 2 seconds to 5 seconds from the time it takes for a user to conduct a Web search and arrive at the desired page.

The technology works by predicting the search result a user is most likely to click and automatically downloading that page in the background.

Google said the Instant Pages feature will initially be available as an add-on to Google's Chrome Web browser and that it planned to make it available for mobile devices in the coming weeks.