Mar 24
Yahoo Revamps Search
Posted in: Today's Chili, Yahoo
Yahoo’s search for meaning in a post-Google world continues this week with the introduction of Search Direct, a new feature aimed at speeding up search results and “giving you the answers you’re looking for right there in the search box as you type.” It’s certainly similar to Google Instant–a fact we’re not the first to point out.
Begin typing a query into the search box over at search.yahoo.com (where the feature is currently live), and a dialog box will drop down. The left-hand side offers up search suggestions as you type, and right-hand side offers links and related content–begin typing “weather,” for example, and the local forecast will pop up.
The company is banking on the new feature to help give it a leg up in a field dominated by Google–and, increasingly, Microsoft’s Bing, which has actually been providing back end search results for Yahoo for the past two years.
It’s a cool feature, certainly–we advise you to go over to Yahoo to take it for a spin. The feature alone, however, likely won’t bring too many back to Yahoo’s side.
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