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Yahoo! Search iPhone app Review

Description:

The Yahoo! Search iPhone app is one of those reference apps that contains everything you need all in one location.  You will enjoy searching for any and everything on this little app.

Features:

• This app contains several local maps for you to reference to that will be tied to your current location and will help you to make any phone calls that you want or get directions to anyplace you are looking for
• There is a cool little feature called the Search Assist where you can get all kinds of local suggestions while you are typing you original destination.  This way you can get a variety of ideas of things to do when you are  bored
• There is of course the “Best of Yahoo” section that allows you to get information about finance, movies, sports, news, and everything else you can imagine.  This section was designed specifically for the iPhone
• There is a voice search function as well if you get sick of typing, or if you are trying to get information while driving.  All you have to do is just talk into the phone and it will quickly direct you to information that is related to your search
• You can get local business photos so that you can see their ratings, pictures, phone numbers, directions, and a lot more. This is done in collaboration with CitySearch, Local, Yelp, and Yahoo
• The information that is included with the app is all very personalized and you can get results that continually get better based on what you have searched before
• You can get queries extremely fast and get entire summaries of the site you are looking for with only a quick glance of the snapshot through the Quick Load function
• There is a little section called “My Log” where you can get access to a variety of different searches that include recent queries and also local businesses
• Whenever you want to clear your searches and start again, all you have to do is shake your iPhone and it will bring up the option to search a different query

Conclusion:

This app is incredibly easy to use and the whole shake to erase the query thing is kind of cool.  The voice search feature is also really nice so that you don’t always have to type all of your searches in.

Voted 3 stars by a variety of different iPhone app users and is a free reference app to download.