{"id":55774,"date":"2013-11-19T02:14:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T00:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=55774"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:01:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:01:31","slug":"google-search-app-for-windows-phone-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-search-app-for-windows-phone-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Search app for Windows Phone updated, still missing Google Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google and Microsoft may have a <a title=\"Microsoft blames Google for 'manufacturing' reasons for blocking Windows Phone YouTube app\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/microsoft-blames-google-for-manufacturing-reasons-for-blocking-windows-phone-youtube-app\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rocky relationship<\/a> with their competing mobile platforms but that hasn&#8217;t stopped Google from updating Google Search for Windows Phone with more features. Windows Phone users finally get voice search and autocomplete but there&#8217;s something missing: Google Now.<\/p>\n<p>Google Now, Google&#8217;s personal assistant, is baked into <a title=\"Android news on Softonic\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a>&#8216;s search function while iOS users have access to Now in the <a title=\"Google Search for iOS download\" href=\"http:\/\/google_search.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Search<\/a> app for iOS. Unfortunately, the new Google Search app for Windows Phone doesn&#8217;t include Google Now, one of Google&#8217;s most compelling products.<\/p>\n<p>However, Google Search for Windows Phone finally brings supports Voice Search and local search results. Google Instant is also baked into the app so your searches get autocompleted.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully Google will bring Google Now to Google Search for Windows Phone in the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download <a title=\"Google Search for Windows Phone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsphone.com\/en-us\/store\/app\/google\/220bfbf2-ee02-496c-a656-651a6c0c6518\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Search for Windows Phone<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"Windows Phone Store\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsphone.com\/en-us\/store\/app\/google\/220bfbf2-ee02-496c-a656-651a6c0c6518\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows Phone Store<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/vine-for-windows-phone-out-now\">Vine for Windows Phone out now<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/flipboard-for-windows-8-1-released\">Flipboard for Windows 8.1 released<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/5-free-racing-games-for-pc\">5 free racing games for PC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google and Microsoft may have a rocky relationship with their competing mobile platforms but that hasn&#8217;t stopped Google from updating Google Search for Windows Phone with more features. Windows Phone users finally get voice search and autocomplete but there&#8217;s something missing: Google Now. Google Now, Google&#8217;s personal assistant, is baked into Android&#8216;s search function while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-search-app-for-windows-phone-updated\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Search app for Windows Phone updated, still missing Google Now&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2340],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-55774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331795,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55774\/revisions\/331795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55774"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=55774"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=55774"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=55774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}