{"id":37934,"date":"2013-06-28T08:54:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T14:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/28\/google-now-is-better-than-google-in-a-minute.html"},"modified":"2013-06-30T17:05:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T23:05:54","slug":"google-now-is-better-than-google-in-a-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/28\/google-now-is-better-than-google-in-a-minute.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Now is better than Google In A Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">I&#39;ve found Google Now on my phone (Moto Razr Maxx) to be nearly unusable due to the slowness. \u00a0Until now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/107345380056943591322'>Lifehacker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In case you missed it yesterday: If searches using the Google Search or Google Now apps on your Android phone are painfully slow, this tweak will give you a serious speed boost:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/4IRjQoxBEm-0Vha5eRk3k0S-Adgd3n3lBXomXYh2VBHQYINmOG7jGdYz4MOBnDhsJQIIaLmYAqUG2R_Eor7mkbMUcBteKGuU6ufZODA=w125-h125' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/speed-up-slow-google-searches-in-android-with-this-twea-591677040'>Speed Up Slow Google Searches in Android with This Tweak<\/a><br \/>\n                                                If tapping the search bar and typing a search term inside the Google Search app seems painfully slow on your Android device, you&#8217;re not alone. Thankfully, there&#8217;s a an easy\u2014albeit experimental\u2014fix that can speed up those searches significantly, and all you have to do is disable a built-in system app to do it.\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/JvzymGbzWkP' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve found Google Now on my phone (Moto Razr Maxx) to be nearly unusable due to the slowness. \u00a0Until now. Reshared post from +Lifehacker In case you missed it yesterday: If searches using the Google Search or Google Now apps on your Android phone are painfully slow, this tweak will give you a serious speed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/28\/google-now-is-better-than-google-in-a-minute.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Now is better than Google In A Minute&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-my-mobile-pda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40330,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/07\/eek-google-knows-my-wifi-passwords-eek.html","url_meta":{"origin":37934,"position":0},"title":"Eek! 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