Yahoo! has passed over its search duties to Bing. The result has been greater focus on mobile search, and has it not been good so far!
Yahoo! Sketch-a-Search & Yahoo! Search app for iPhone are two cool new applications launched by the search-turned-into-search experience major. If one glosses over the superlatives and claims of them being very new, the new applications for iPhone and iPod touch are pretty useful.
Yahoo! Sketch-a-Search
First of all, both these features are available in 22 countries across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia, at least for now. So, if you are not inside these border, donÂ’t reach out for your handset just yet.
However, what the application does is this:
LetÂ’s say you are looking for restaurants in a particular are and you donÂ’t have the name or the zip code. Now, all you have to do is mark out a area on the map and the application will show up the restaurants on that area. Moreover, it will also provide the reviews, prices, photos and any other info available about the restaurant.
Now, not much is new in terms of the results. But I love the part about outlining the field of search with such effortlessness.
Yahoo! Search app for iPhone
This one “integrates voice search, embedded maps, and information from Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Movies, Yahoo! News, and other sources that appear directly in the results.”
Simply, this is a happier marriage between the map and the list search. When searching for any local business, you can decide between different permutations of map and search until you find the
combination you like. The rest works more or less the way you would expect it to. Read reviews, see ratings and the map will readjust as per your search.
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The information and the links you have provided here is really great….i have gone through it…this is really amazing post..great job.
Well, we will see what it brings!
I agree it's great to see Yahoo! doing new things as I was worried that they might start to disappear a little bit as I'm a keen Yahoo user. I think the reason that they have not got a text version is because that 80% is decreasing quite rapidly as smart phones are getting cheaper and cheaper and soon the budget end of mobile phone market will have smart phone capability as even Apple are working on a budget range.
Yahoo is second best search engine to have in your Iphone. Sketch a search must be a great tool to try out.
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Thanks for that, I didn't know that Yahoo was making such a user-friendly integration for finding iPhone apps. I'll be sure to write a comment about this on my blog!
Being someone who is into iphone app development I think the possibilities of having the yahoo search engine on your iphone are very exciting. I use Yahoo regularly and I am definitely very happy to see their search engine will be available.
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