While Google and Bing have spent the past 12 months building social sites and claiming that they’re really good at search, honest, Yahoo have quietly been biding their time.
Because it looks like Yahoo have spotted a gap in the search market that the other two major search engines haven’t. While Google and Bing have scrapped over their ability to index the billions of websites available on the internet, Yahoo have dropped out of online search and adopted Bing’s own algorithm. Because they’ve been working out how to search mobile phone apps.
Rough estimates state that there are around 350,000 apps (short for applications) in Apple’s iStore and upwards of 200,000 apps in the Android market. And no way of searching for the application you want without using the sometimes unreliable in-built search functions.
Until now.
Yahoo App Search combines Droid and iPhone apps into one easily searchable database, allowing you to find app descriptions, price details and a screenshot – filtered by platform, price and genre. While this dual-platform feature seems like it will only be of use to people with both Android and Apple handsets (so, nobody), it will help developers spot gaps in the market, leading to even more useful, intuitive applications.
And, in true social internet style, the search also lets you know which applications are trending and popular. Which is a far less intrusive way of bringing social data into search…
This isn’t the first time Yahoo have brought in a groundbreaking new search product to the market under the noses of the competition. The company released (and promptly scrapped) a real-time search years before everyone was excited by Google’s ‘game-changing’ Google Instant release.
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Yahoo Launch Groundbreaking App Search
Because it looks like Yahoo have spotted a gap in the search market that the other two major search engines haven’t. While Google and Bing have scrapped over their ability to index the billions of websites available on the internet, Yahoo have dropped out of online search and adopted Bing’s own algorithm. Because they’ve been working out how to search mobile phone apps.
Rough estimates state that there are around 350,000 apps (short for applications) in Apple’s iStore and upwards of 200,000 apps in the Android market. And no way of searching for the application you want without using the sometimes unreliable in-built search functions.
Until now.
Yahoo App Search combines Droid and iPhone apps into one easily searchable database, allowing you to find app descriptions, price details and a screenshot – filtered by platform, price and genre. While this dual-platform feature seems like it will only be of use to people with both Android and Apple handsets (so, nobody), it will help developers spot gaps in the market, leading to even more useful, intuitive applications.
And, in true social internet style, the search also lets you know which applications are trending and popular. Which is a far less intrusive way of bringing social data into search…
This isn’t the first time Yahoo have brought in a groundbreaking new search product to the market under the noses of the competition. The company released (and promptly scrapped) a real-time search years before everyone was excited by Google’s ‘game-changing’ Google Instant release.
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