Galaxy Tab: The Missing Manual

Searching

Remember that Search button up at the top left of the screen? Tap it, and a box and keyboard appear that let you type in a search term. As you tap the text you’re searching for, your Tab displays matching results. Those on the left are matching and suggested results from the Web, for searching Google, and those on the right are for matching results from your Tab or from your browser’s bookmarks. Tap a term on the left, and you search the Internet; tap one on the right, and you launch the appropriate Galaxy Tab app—an app, say, or a contact, or a website, and so on.

If no matches appear, tap your entire search term, and then tap the triangle at the right of the search box. To delete all the text in the search box so you can launch another search, tap the X.

Your Galaxy Tab also lets you do a voice search—instead of typing in your search terms, you can speak them. To do a voice search, hold down the Search key instead of just pressing it, and then speak. The Tab does its best to interpret what you say, and it generally does a good job of it. For more details, see Using the Magic of Voice Actions.