This is one of the coolest features to hit the mobile scene in a long time: Google Mobile App for iPhone lets you talk to your phone to do a full-text Google search. The input is all voice, with no typing.

It’s hard to understand just how revolutionary this is until you’ve seen a video. Even if you don’t have an iPhone, check this out to see where the entire mobile world will be in a few years:

As you can see in the video, it includes a seamless “search with my location” feature so that you can search for “movie showtimes” and the results will be based on your current location.

To get the latest Google Mobile App for iPhone or iPod touch, go to the App Store and search for “Google Mobile App.” A version is expected soon for Android phones—just the T-Mobile G1 at the moment, but many more models are on their way.

Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, is on record as saying that he believes the potential mobile market for search dwarfs the desktop market, largely because location-based searches are so heavily commercial in nature.¹ Right now, searching on a mobile device is far from effortless—in fact, it’s often a major PITA—so this gee-whiz new technology also brings us closer to that commercial reality. Consumers win and search providers win. Isn’t it wonderful when capitalism works the way it’s supposed to?

1. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to find an exact cite for this Schmidt quote, but I’m 90% certain I originally saw it on John Battelle’s Searchblog. [↩]