A few weeks ago, Google launched a mobile plug-in for Symbian devices that put a Google search shortcut onto the phone's home screen. This shortcut reduces the time it takes for you to get answers from Google by eliminating the initial search steps like finding and starting the web browser and navigating to Google.com before entering your query. The same plug-in has been available for BlackBerry devices since last December and today Google made it available for Windows Mobile devices too. Basically it's quite similar to Microsoft's original Windows Live search plug-in as available for Windows Mobile.

To get the 300 KB Home and Today screen plug-in - which is available for Windows Mobile Classic, Professional and Standard - simply browse to mobile.google.com on your device and download and install it to use Google Search straight from your Home screen.

Cheers ~ Arne