Google have released yet another new Android app, this time it’s a method of searching your phone for contacts, music files, apps or a browser bookmark by drawing characters on the screen.  Here’s what the official blog post had to say by way of an explanation-

“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.

Additionally, Gesture Search improves search quality by learning from your search history, so Anne’s contact info will jump to the top of the list the next time you write “A”.

To download Gesture Search, search for it in Android Market. You can get more information on our Google Labs page.”

It’s worth noting that Gesture Search is only available for Android 2.x phones at present.