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Jul. 12, 2007 at 8:49am Eastern by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo.com Adds Search Suggestions
The Yahoo Search Blog announced that the search box on Yahoo.com now offers search suggestions as you type.
For example, as I started typing "danny s", Yahoo offered suggestions, including "danny sullivan."
What is important to note is that search suggestions are not the default at search.yahoo.com. Don't like the search suggestions at Yahoo? No worries, you can turn them off by clicking on "more" and then selecting "Disable Search Suggestions," as I show in this screen capture.
Danny gives some further background about how Yahoo and others have used predictive query refinement options over the years in Yahoo Search Suggest Launches, Saves Typing at our new Sphinn site. What's that site? He'll post formally about it later today.
Finally, Gary Price goes through some of the other engines offering search suggest by default including Snap.com and Ask.com.
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Look what I found...
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-07-12-n36.html
Their "Query Inspector" tool for this Search Suggest feature lets you play about with the results and gain an insight into how it's all working.
:-)