Yahoo Search Launches iPhone Safari Version

Yahoo has built a mobile Safari version of Yahoo Search for the iPhone. Ryan Grove, a Yahoo developer, blogged about the experience of building out the application. In short, the mobile Safari version gives you almost all of the features the normal Yahoo Search gives you, but with fewer ads and on a smaller screen. […]

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Yahoo has built a mobile Safari version of Yahoo Search for the iPhone. Ryan Grove, a Yahoo developer, blogged about the experience of building out the application.

In short, the mobile Safari version gives you almost all of the features the normal Yahoo Search gives you, but with fewer ads and on a smaller screen. Included features are SearchMonkey, Search Assist, shortcuts, and much more. Do note that Yahoo has not built out an iPhone App; this is just a mobile Safari enabled version of Yahoo Search. Here are some screen captures of Yahoo Search on my iPhone:


Yahoo Search front page:
Yahoo Search on iPhone

Search Assist in action:
Yahoo Search on iPhone

Search results include a single ad, news results, and web results with quick links:
Yahoo Search on iPhone

Additional search selections can be found at the bottom, and you can click five pages ahead:
Yahoo Search on iPhone

A local result:
Yahoo Search on iPhone

A weather result:
Yahoo Search on iPhone

Flickr results:
Yahoo Search on iPhone

Movie results:
Yahoo Search on iPhone

Search Monkey result from Yelp on Yahoo:
Search Monkey on Yahoo for iPhone

Yes, Google does have many mobile Safari formatted products already.

Hat tip to Mashable for spotting this.


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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