FoxBoom!

For as long as I can remember Google being around, it’s been my favourite search engine. When I got my iPhone, I left its default engine to be just that.

This morning, whilst enduring an ad break during Deep Space Nine, I browsed through the settings on my phone, and found the “default search engine” page. Just for fun, I hit Yahoo!, and gave it a whirl.

For comparison, this is what a search for “Jon Eccleston” looks like in Google:

…and here’s the same search in Yahoo:

Wow! Look at that! Yahoo! has formatted the results for the iPhone, giving them a nice big, readable font, with iPhone-like list item separators.

Google, despite having the more accurate results (though I don’t mind my photo gallery being the top match) has to be zoomed to be useable. Yahoo! is useable as soon as it loads, and it looks great to boot.

Plus, you can’t tell from the photos, but Yahoo! lists the first few web matches, then also includes a few image matches, and any matching photos from Flickr. There’s a whole variety of results, presented in one simple, easy to read list.

Yahoo! oneSearch FTW!