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Tip: iPhone – Web Search: Google or Yahoo!? It's Your Choice

By James Alan Miller
August 31, 2007

You can't beat the iPhone's Safari browser for basic Web surfing from a mobile device. View full Web pages on the iPhone's sharp, bright and large display. Zoom in on a section you want to read with a pinch of two fingers on the touch screen and out by pulling them apart. A flick of your finger and you’re quickly scrolling through a page.

Another nice feature of Safari is how easy Apple's makes it to perform an Internet search.

Tap the Address Bar to open up a small Search Window. Tap that Window and type in your search term(s) or phrase and hit the Blue Button on the lower right-hand side of the iPhone's keyboard, which popped up back when you first tapped the Address Bar.

 
                   Safari                       Safari After Touching Address Bar

And while Google is the default search engine for Safari, Apple makes it simple enough for you to go with Yahoo! instead, if that's your preference.

To change from Google to Yahoo!, simply push your iPhone's Home button to go to the Home screen > Touch the Settings icon > Select Safari > Select Yahoo! That's it.


Choose Your Prefered Search Engine

The next time you launch Safari and tap on the Address Bar, instead of seeing the word Google in the Search Window that opens, you'll see Yahoo!. And when you tap on the Search Window, the Blue Key on the keyboard that says Go in Address Bar mode, will now say Yahoo! instead of Google in Search mode.

 
      Yahoo! Search In Safari          Google Search In Safari

A Yahoo! search takes you to a results page that has been optimized for the iPhone. Performing a Google search, however, takes you to the same results page you'd see if you did the same search on a desktop.

 
        Yahoo! Search Results              Google Search Results



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