Yahoo! Search (Free)
Version – 1.0.0
REVIEW – “A great, simple search tool!”
Even though there are already a lot of great search apps available in
the App Store, Yahoo! decided to go ahead and release their own! While this app does not have a lot of customizable features, it is extremely simple to use. It also is very quick and has great speech recognition!
The icon for this app is great and makes it quick to recognize as a search app without reading the app name. Something I noticed when I first opened up 
this app is that it asks if you want to use your current location information. Curious as to what this was for, one of the first things I searched was for a local fast food place. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it searches not only the internet, but also Google maps to help you find things that are close to you!
The built in maps is particularly nice if you are looking for a business close to you. When you search the small map that
appears at the top of the screen will have quick links to call the phone number or get directions to the location of the closest business to your current location. This kind of thing is particularly nice for finding things like places to eat.
The overview for search results is certainly nice. Different types of search results show up in different ways. You have the location based results first 
if there are any, then you have everything else from “Wikipedia” results which show the main photo from the entry as well as some sub-topics to go directly to, to just regular web results.
The interface is very smooth when you touch a link to open a page. If you touch the small map it brings up a full screen version of the map with the locations listed at the bottom of the screen. If you touch a regular web link it slides the link you touched to the bottom of the screen while it loads the page above it. Once the page is fully 
loaded the link information goes away and reveals browsing controls.
The browsing controls are fairly basic. If you need more you’ll notice a button in the bottom right corner of your screen that will allow you to open up your current page up in the safari browser, or even send a link to the page in an email. With that said, I found the built in browser to be more than sufficient for quickly browsing pages and finding information.
All in all this is a great app that I would highly recommend. If you’re looking for lots of bells and whistles or maybe for ways to search multiple sources quickly and easily you might want to check out Dragon Search, or the Google search app which I’ve previously reviewed. However, if what you’re looking forward is speed and ease of use, I would highly recommend Yahoo! Search. So what are you waiting for? Check it out for yourself today!
- David H.
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Developer – Yahoo! Inc.
URL: http://mobile.yahoo.com/search/iphone
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