Search Google images on your cell phone

Google image search is no longer restricted to iPhone and Android phones.

(Credit: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET)

Last March, Google's mobile team made it possible to search for images on your iPhone and Android phone. On Thursday, they rolled out image search for feature phones; that is, for pretty much any cell phone make and model with a Web browser.

Image search will work roughly the same way it does through a desktop browser. Starting from Google.com in the mobile browser, click "Images" in the top navigation, then fill in your search term. Google will return thumbnail images in the results page; between eight and fourteen, Google wrote in a blog post.

Click on one of these pictorial results to see a larger thumbnail image. Below, there's a link to view the photo in its original Web page and another one that takes you to the full-size image. You're also able to navigate "left" and "right" arrows to view other image results.

As with all Internet-dependent mobile apps, the slower your data or Wi-Fi connection is, the slower these images will be to load.

[monkeyfun14]

Eh you could always search Google images on phones. Even my old Motorola SLVR does it.

[01Phyxius]

Same here, my LG Dare, which is correctly identified as a mobile, could always image search.
Unfortunately I have been recently forced to use the mobile GMail view, rather than the HTML one that I was previously able to use. (Offtopic)

[bmelendy]

Yeah, this is not really new at all, m.google.com has always let you do it from any phone that has internet.

[jjolsen]

To be fair, they did recently improve/change the mobile interface, but yeah, I've been google image searching with my Palm Treo 755p for 2 years, and with different blackberries for 2 years before that.

[cradam818]

My name is Chris and I loooove Kristin!!!!!!

[AmmarYameen]

Hello,

Actually Google always improving their services, couple months ago they added new features to the images, like: similar images and color background.

Bottom line Google is the best and thank you so much Jessica Dolcourt for bringing this up.

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[ck-exe]

Can't believe she didn't knew about image search which I'm using on my nokia phones from year 2007.