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Dec. 13, 2007 at 1:28pm by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Adds Integrated Shortcuts For WordPress Blogs
The Yahoo Search Blog announced a new WordPress plugin that automatically creates Yahoo Shortcuts for the words you write in a blog post. If you mention a stock ticker, that word on your blog will typically contain a mouse-over effect that will display a Yahoo Finance chart. Or if you...
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Nov. 27, 2007 at 9:11am by Danny Sullivan
Search 3.0: The Blended & Vertical Search Revolution
This has been a remarkable year. After years of no real dramatic evolution in search, the third generation finally arrived. Google calls it Universal Search, and I've been tending to say "blended search" as a generic name for the change that's now hit all the major search engines. But in...
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Oct. 5, 2007 at 1:20pm by Danny Sullivan
Yahoo's Paid Shortcuts Now Labeled As Sponsored
Back in July, our Yahoo Shortcuts For Sale? article covered how Yahoo was selling some of its Yahoo Shortcuts units without -- to us -- enough disclosure. Looks like Yahoo's seen the light and now is using a "Yahoo Sponsored Shortcuts" label on these. Scott Hendison spotted the change here....
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Aug. 23, 2007 at 12:00am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Search Adds Health, Electronics & NFL Shortcuts
Yahoo Search will be launching new Search Shortcuts for health, consumer electronics and NFL related queries....
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Aug. 13, 2007 at 8:40am by Greg Sterling
Drop-Down Maps & Other Enhanced Data Appearing In Yahoo Hotel Search Results
Yahoo has been building out much richer Shortcuts, rolling out new ones almost daily. Here are recent additions, sports and music, for example. Yahoo has also done this for some time with restaurant reviews (e.g., "Sushi, San Francisco") and more recently travel (e.g., "London"). Locallytype noticed that some hotel searches...
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Aug. 9, 2007 at 1:10pm by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Search Adds Baseball Shortcut
The Yahoo Search Blog announced a new baseball search shortcut. For example, a search on Prince Fielder, of the Milwaukee Brewers, shows up a shortcut with a picture, his number, team, real statistics for the year and fantasy league statistics, plus links to news, game log, scores, schedules and more...
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Jul. 26, 2007 at 5:06pm by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Search Adds Travel Shortcuts
The Yahoo Search Blog has announced that they have added new Yahoo Travel shortcuts. If you search on a travel destination, such as Jerusalem, up comes a shortcut box with travel related information. It looks like this:...
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Jul. 20, 2007 at 1:32pm by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Shortcuts For Sale?
Scott Hendison found an interesting Yahoo Shortcut that appears to have been sold. A search on special k at Yahoo Search returns this Yahoo Shortcut, which contains the Special K logo:...
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May. 8, 2007 at 8:34am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Search Integrates Lyrics Shortcut
The Yahoo Search blog has reported that Yahoo has now integrated their new music lyrics database into the Yahoo search results. If you perform a search on neil young lyrics at Yahoo, you will see a Yahoo Shortcut for "Neil Young Lyrics - Music Results."...
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Feb. 23, 2007 at 10:42am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Search Improves Movie Shortcut Results
The Yahoo Search Blog announced they have improved their movie shortcuts to add more information. The added information includes, movie trailers, user and critic ratings, a brief summary, and movie showtimes. For example, a search on Dreamgirls, 10025 brings up this Yahoo Shortcut....
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Dec. 19, 2006 at 11:24am by Brian Smith
Yahoo Pushing Vertical Search Through More Yahoo Shortcuts
Yahoo! Shortcuts must be working for searchers and for Yahoo! Starting last week, I noticed Yahoo prompting me a lot more to search for retailer coupons, flights from city to city and movie showtimes - all which trigger a Yahoo Shortcut. While shortcuts have been around for a while, this...
