Yahoo announced two new features on Yahoo Image Search, social sharing and continuous scrolling. Social Sharing On Images: Yahoo Images enables you to share the images you find on Yahoo Image Search with your friends on Facebook or Twitter, not Google +. When you click on an image result and are taken to the larger image, Yahoo provides two small links for sharing on those networks. The links take your friends to the Yahoo Image Search page, where you can preview the image - it does not take you to the owner (host page) of the image. Continuous Image Scrolling: Yahoo also ann [...]

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Yahoo's Image Search is sporting a fresh look today that presents the image results in a cleaner, more organized fashion. Do a search and the results page shows all matches in a grid, with each image sized almost uniformly no matter their true dimensions or orientation (horizontal vs. vertical). Each image expands when you hover it. The new layout also includes a series of tabs across the top of the image results, with choices that may include "Top Images," "Latest," "Galleries" and "Facebook." In its announcement today, Yahoo says that the "Latest" tab will show when your searc [...]

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Yahoo is launching a number of search enhancements this evening that start to deliver on the UI innovation that the company has been promising since the Microsoft search deal was announced. It's part of Yahoo's bid to remain relevant in search by spicing up the user experience and trying to bring more utility to page one. Many of these new features were previewed at the recent "Runway" event last month. The two biggest changes or enhancements that users will immediately notice involve image search and a new "accordion" module at the top of search results (though it doesn't always appear). [...]

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Yahoo announced they have redesigned the home page for Yahoo Image Search and Yahoo Video Search to include trending search results. The new pages are no longer dull looking, they show up to "five pages of topics that are trending in search," in a sleek black background. You can scroll through the pages manually or turn on the autoscroll feature. As part of this announcement, Yahoo keeps pushing the "engagement" metric saying: Already, we’ve seen double-digit percentage increases in engagement for both image and video search since launching these new homepages, with a 60% increase [...]

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Image search could use a little organization, especially when you're searching for generic terms like place names -- cities, states, or tourist/geographic attractions. Who wants to browse through a couple million images of Boston to help plan your first visit there? Yahoo is making it easier to virtually tour popular places with what it calls a travel image refiner -- photos of popular destinations are organized in a new left-side column to speed up the search/browse/find process. On a search for Boston, as shown above, Yahoo lists 10 popular destinations within Boston on the left, and [...]

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