Google now revamps search integration in Android 4.1 Jellybean

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Google just officially unveiled its next iteration for Android -- Jelly Bean 4.1 -- and now we're getting to see the various "buttery" improvements the company's worked into the OS. Hugo Barra, Director of Product Management, took to the I/O 2012 stage to detail the refinements introduced to its search integration. The entire expereince has now been redeisgned from the ground-up with a fresher UI and a "faster, more natural" voice search ability. That refreshesed interface borrows from the recently outed Knowledge Graph, displaying queries for weather, Wikipedia and restaurants in graphical card format.

That same layout extends to voice search, now spoken by a much more human-sounding voice. You can also dismiss the card layout with a simple swipe, exposing the full list of search results beneath.

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