Yahoo! Sketch-a-Search

...and iPod touch are pretty useful.

Yahoo! Sketch-a-Search

First of all, both these features are available in 22 countries across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia, at least for now. So, if you are not inside these border, dont reach out for your handset just yet.

However, what the application does is this:

Lets say you are looking for restaurants in a particular are and you dont have the name or the zip code. Now, all you have to do is mark out a area on the map and the application will show up the restaurants on that area. Moreover, it will also provide the reviews, prices, photos and any other info available about the restaurant.

Now, not much is new in terms of the results. But I love the part about outlining the field of search with such effortlessness.

Yahoo! Search app for iPhone

This one integrates voice search, embedded maps, and information from Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Movies, Yahoo! News, and other sources that appear directly in the results.

Simply, this is a happier marriage between the map and the list search. When searching for any local business, you can decide between different permutations of map and search until you find the
combination you like. The rest works more or less the way you would expect it to. Read reviews, see ratings and the map will readjust as per your search.

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