Avid Yahoo users owning iPhones have a treat stored in for them. Yahoo has declared the release of two new apps for the iPhone, namely Yahoo! Sketch-a-Search and Yahoo! Search. The apps deliver users with enjoyable and attractive search experiences that offer potent details in a quick, locally aware and chic manner.
Yahoo! Sketch-a-Search enables search to be even more effortless without typing keywords or thinking about search terms. One can just draw a border on their device’s map to find out local businesses in that site. The app offers animated local content without people needing to know the neighborhood. Primarily accessible for restaurant searches in the U.S., the app is all set to come up with supplementary local categories on a continuing basis and would expand to global markets in the near future.
Users have to simply use a finger to draw a circle, line, or any shape to acquire a bird’s eye view of what’s close by in a certain region or on a particular street. The app defaults to a person’s present site, remembers preceding places and enables people to look for a particular city or a region of interest. It sorts out restaurant outcomes by cuisine, ambiance, and star rating. One can click on restaurants to read reviews, leaf through images, receive directions or make a phone call within the app.
David Ko, senior vice president of Yahoo!’s Audience, Mobile, and Local businesses, commented, “Yahoo! is defining the next era of the Internet, search, and mobile, by demonstrating what’s possible when you leverage innovative design and technical prowess to engage people with personally relevant experiences. We’re growing our mobile audience globally by providing people with search experiences that have simple input and discovery methods, and advertisers with a highly engaged mobile audience.”
The Yahoo! Search iPhone app includes an amazing interface that provides contextually pertinent results rapidly and capably. The app is equipped with firmly entrenched maps, localized query ideas that presents itself as one types, clever search history, voice search and opulent content and details from Yahoo and other sources that emerge promptly in the results and fashion an optimal experience for discovering precisely what one requires. This iPhone app is accessible in around 22 markets across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia and would be released in other places.
With this app, users can obtain results, comprehensive synopsis at a glance, and immediate local suggestions that shows itself as one types with Yahoo! Search Assist. Users can see pictures, ratings, phone numbers and many more via Yahoo! Local, Yelp, and Citysearch. One can get the exact information they need from different sources like Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Movies, and other sources. With the built-in voice search, users need not type but simply speak their query, enabling input to be quite effortless and quick. One has to shake the device to begin a new question.
Both Yahoo! Sketch-A-Search and Yahoo! Search iPhone apps are available for download from the iTunes app Store.