Gesture Search on Android

For those Android users who voice search just doesn't satisfy, Google has just released an app for you. Gesture Search is the name of the app and it allows users to search by simply drawing the first letter of whatever they are looking for. Here's how Google explains it:

Say you want to call your friend Anne. Just open Gesture Search and draw letter "A", and Gesture Search returns a list of items that have words starting with "A". If your handwriting isn't all that neat, that's okay. If the "A" you draw looks a bit like an "H", as seen in the bottom left corner of the screenshot, "H" results will be brought up as well. If needed, you can also erase a query by crossing it horizontally: left to right erases the entire query, and right to left removes the last letter or space in the query. Now you can either scroll down the list to find Anne or write more letters to refine the search.

It seems like the app actually does a decent job of recognizing my handwriting, admittedly I have only played with it for a little while though. For users who have issue with the voice search (I am not one of them), this may be a nice alternative for your searching needs.