Filed under: Design, Internet, Web services, Google, Yahoo!
Yahoo cleans things up with the Alpha search engine
Yahoo is fighting hard in these search engine wars, and seems to be quite frequently releasing new and interesting goodies for web users. This new entry into the market is a fresh looking search tool called Alpha. Yahoo Alpha takes a clean approach to searching, and closely compares to Google's Searchmash. Searchmash provides users clean results, with associated image, blog, video, and wikipedia results. The new Yahoo Alpha gives users results for Flickr photos, YouTube videos, News search, Wikipedia entries, and also gives users the ability to see sponsored listings if they choose, all in a nice contrast to Yahoo's busy homepage.
The cleaner the search application the better. The more that clutters the space, the more users get distracted and frustrated with the whole searching experience. Yahoo is on the move with this; now let's see who wins the battle for the new search landscape. What do DLS readers prefer, the new Yahoo Alpha, or Google's Searchmash?
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Tim said 9:08AM on 4-05-2007
I am a big Yahoo! Fan boy and checked and I say go Alpha!
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Jeff said 12:11PM on 4-05-2007
Hmmm...
Alpha Beta? LOL
Looks nice. I too am a Yahoo fan. :)
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Mysterius said 12:17PM on 4-06-2007
@Jeff: Alpha Beta -> Alpha Gamma -> Beta Alpha -> Beta Beta (or Beta^2) -> Beta Gamma -> Gamma ... ;)
I prefer Searchmash
By the way, did you notice that Yahoo Alpha has YouTube as a search option? Is that just strange, or sorta sad?
And since when did "Yahoo!" become "Yahoo!7" (as it's seen in the search options)?
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Chris Gilmer said 8:52AM on 4-06-2007
Mysterius - i thought i was seeing things at first when i saw the YouTube video search in Yahoo!
After all... they do have their video search they could have tossed in at http://video.search.yahoo.com/
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Shayne said 11:35AM on 4-06-2007
I am a BIG google fan, although I like Yahoo Alpha better. It just looks nice.
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