Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo has released a free Web search application for users of Apple's popular  iPhone that is built on technology from Inquisitor, a start-up Yahoo purchased last May specializing in making mobile searches easier. The Yahoo Inquisitor application for the iPhone became available Thursday in the Apple iTunes App Store, and joined Inquisitor's supported Web browser add-ons for Mozilla's Firefox, Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Apple's Safari. Free Yahoo Search Application Tries For iPhone Navigation Elegance The iPhone version of Inquisitor uses Yahoo Search Assist typing recognition logic to make searches faster by deducing possible words from the first letters a user types in, reducing the amount of typing for mobile searchers. The application uses Yahoo's own search engine, the second most-used behind that of search giant Google. "Inquisitor Mobile Search auto-completes your search and gives suggestions as you type to refine your search," Yahoo Search's Ariel Seidman and David Watanabe wrote Thursday in a message announcing the new iPhone application posted on the Yahoo search blog. "When you type in your query, websites and suggestions appear immediately below the search box," Seidman and Watanabe noted. "Searching on-the-go should be quick and easy – that’s why we focused on making the design of the Inquisitor application simple and seamless so you can get your answers quickly," the Yahoo team added. Pre-Fetching Search Results For Faster Page Display The Inquisitor iPhone application has been set up to pre-load those Web pages matching what a user searches for even before the search is complete, in an attempt to speed up the display of results. "Inquisitor also speeds up your search by quickly loading site summaries and allowing you to navigate between results and the browser with just one click," Yahoo said Thursday of its Inquisitor iPhone application, which with the new release it said had become "ubiquitous across platforms." Yahoo's latest mobile search product was designed to display search results using easy-to-read gray boxes and small icons representing each site in a presentation likely to appeal to iPhone users accustomed to simple and elegant application interfaces. The new Yahoo mobile search tool for the iPhone displayed several preview lines of text from each search result, news results from Yahoo News when available, and was built to personalize search results by learning each user's search habits. SearchEngineWorld presents two example images from the new Yahoo iPhone application below.   Yahoo Launches Apple iPhone Inquisitor Search Application Yahoo Inquisitor for the iPhone was built to hide any affiliate advertising links from its results pages, and to present visited pages in a framed display, although users were also able to view any page in the iPhone's native  Safari Web browser via a menu option. Yahoo added an option to simplify the process of e-mailing links to the new iPhone Inquisitor application, and utilized some of the Apple phone's special features such as an optional provision that cleared the current search results by shaking the phone. In August 2008 Yahoo launched an iPhone-specific mobile search engine site utilizing add-ons created with Yahoo's Search Monkey open development platform. Related Links:
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