Yahoo Search

You can customize your news feed by drilling into the settings and selecting topics you care about, like tech or science. The app then prioritizes articles from sources like IEEE Spectrum and Nature blogs, filtering out celebrity gossip. It’s surprisingly effective, updating your feed by the next day to match your interests.

Yes, searching for a ticker symbol like "AAPL" displays a clean stock card at the top of the results with the day’s price movement. This integrates Yahoo Finance data directly, so you don’t need to open a separate app. It’s a handy feature for quick market checks.

The image search results load in a grid layout that can glitch, causing blank white areas you have to scroll past. This is a known bug that appears intermittently, likely due to how the app handles image thumbnails. Restarting the app or refreshing the search usually resolves it temporarily.

The "trending" module refreshes inconsistently, sometimes sticking with headlines from early morning for hours. This is a frustration for a news-focused app, as it shows stale content. The fix is to manually refresh the homepage or check back later, but Yahoo needs to address this in an update.

Yahoo Search offers better news personalization and a cleaner, less cluttered homepage than Google, especially if you value curated feeds over raw results. However, Google has more reliable image search and faster trending updates. For quick searches and stock info, Yahoo is competitive, but Google still wins on overall speed and bug-free performance.