“Google Releases Gesture Search for Android”

Gesture Search is pretty straightforward: you open it up and then draw letters. Draw a M and you’ll get contacts, bookmarks, and apps that start with M. Draw an o and you’ll get results starting with “Mo,” and so on until you find what you’re looking for. Queries can also be erased by drawing a line left to right, while drawing right to left removes the last letter in the current sequence.

Want!

But for Apple to do that on the Spotlight home screen would mean to acknowledge that the software keyboard isn’t perfect, and I don’t see that happening.