Hot on the tail of Google and Mahalo, Yahoo! aims to help searchers get to where they want faster.
The goal of Yahoo! OneSearch is "to get things done." Now Yahoo! has integrated a little feature called Search Assist.
Yahoo!'s integrated a real time query suggestion tool earlier this year that helped users refine search queries. With the newly launched Search Assist from Yahoo!, they are suggesting formatting for queries and concepts related to the specific search. This is done through better understanding user's intent and providing them with the information they are looking for in one single search.
It's all about bringing users to the content they want faster, and Yahoo! has done a good job at cutting down the time and provided users with search suggestions, and related concepts to do just that.
Yahoo! has also integrated multimedia into search results. Users can now watch video, view images and listen to audio directly within search results without having to leave a results page.
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10-02-2007 @ 11:13AM
Gardiner Westbound said...
Yahoo was my home page and search engine of choice for years. Then, in a misbegotten effort to be everything to everybody, it changed its front page and became nothing to anybody.
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10-03-2007 @ 8:24AM
Kesey said...
Yea, Mahalo is right up there with Google. Way to advertise the search engine owned by Weblogs, Inc. and not disclose it.
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10-03-2007 @ 10:18AM
Chris Gilmer said...
Kesey - Mahalo is not owned by WeblogsInc or AOL. They do both happen to have the same founder who is no longer involved with WeblogsInc. Mahalo is another online tool that people are using to get the information they are after faster, without having to sort through the clutter. Something that Yahoo is trying to achieve with Search Assist.
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