Newton sports fan , wallow : If you like writing your queries on a cover rather than typing them on a practical keyboard , Google ’s new project , Handwrite , should awe and delight .

Announcedon Google ’s blogThursday morning , the party ’s young beta project aims to make it easier to search , no matter where you are or what you ’re doing . Handwrite allow you to jam print or handwrite varsity letter , words , and punctuation on the screen , where it will be instantly analyzed and convert into a search term .

The feature is fairly simple to turn on : On an iPhone , scroll down to the options link on Google.com ( on an iPad , click Search options from the Gear icon ) , enable Handwrite mode , then hark back to Google.com . Tap the raw button in the lower good corner — it resembles a cursive lower - case g — to turn Handwrite on , and just get scribbling .

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On an iPhone or iPod jot , I found Handwrite a small finicky due to the little screen . ( See my hand - on telecasting , below . ) The religious service will intelligently seek to opine at your letters and password , though , so if you only indite “ dowag ” before you run out of room , you’re able to continue with “ er ” and it will put the letters together to make “ dowager”—and suggest you might be looking forthe Dowager Countess from Downton Abbey , at that .

On an iPad , using Handwrite is a dream , especiallyif you apply a style . There ’s no worry of real estate crunch , and you have much more exemption in forming your letter .

Unfortunately , I come up that Google ’s recognition locomotive was much poor at break down cursive lettering than it was at block printing . I ’m not certain whether that has to do with my own messy panache of cursive or the railway locomotive itself , but I often find it dropping letter ( it did n’t know what to do with a lower - case s or radius ) or misunderstanding words wholly . fortuitously , Google ’s search locomotive is good enough to more or less pick up the slack ( turning “ teasures ” to “ treasure , ” for example ) , but it ’s still a little vexing .

For a beta feature article , though , Handwrite is great fun , and something I could really see myself using pretty often . My handwriting ’s slow — but not as dull as my practical keyboard touch - typing .