Yahoo Goes Hollywood With New Video Search Refiners
Dec 7, 2009 at 11:00am ET by Matt McGee
Building on its previous travel and music search refinements, Yahoo has now announced new refinements for TV shows and actors.
The new feature acts similarly to what Yahoo's done in the other verticals. Now, when using Yahoo Video Search to find TV shows, searchers will get a series of refinements in the left-side column that offer deeper searches for specific characters, popular episodes, and seasons. Here's the screenshot of a search for How I Met Your Mother:
The second refiner deals with searches for popular film actors. The video results page will now show links to clips from an [...]
Filed in: Yahoo: User Interface, Yahoo: Video
Yahoo’s Search Box Gets Smarter
Nov 24, 2009 at 11:00am ET by Matt McGee
Yahoo has announced a new set of features for its Search Assist service that makes the Yahoo search box a lot smarter.
Perhaps the main innovation here is the inclusion of content and information right inside the Search Assist dropdown. For example, do a search for a company's stock symbol, and Yahoo will show real-time stock prices and a couple related links before you even execute the search.
Yahoo says similar features are available for queries related to sports, travel, and movies.
Search Assist can now also help users reach other Yahoo properties more quickly. For certain qu [...]
Filed in: Search Features: Shortcuts, Yahoo: Search, Yahoo: Shortcuts, Yahoo: User Interface
Google’s Brin: “A Shame” That Yahoo Out Of Search
Oct 23, 2009 at 9:51am ET by Greg Sterling
Try as they might Yahoo is having a tough time convincing people that it's still "in search." On Yahoo's earnings call earlier this week CFO Tim Morse, who led the call because CEO Carol Bartz was ill, used her analogy to describe Yahoo's new way of positioning itself around search:
The next revolution isn’t with the algorithms that provide results, it’s in creating a better, more personally relevant search experience. This is where we’ll differentiate ourselves and compete vigorously without the billions required to keep up in the arms race that generating search results has become.
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Filed in: Google: Web Search, Microsoft: Bing, Top News, Yahoo: Business Issues, Yahoo: Search, Yahoo: User Interface
Yahoo Goes Live With New Search Format
Sep 22, 2009 at 11:03am ET by Greg Sterling
Yahoo has now gone live with its new search format. There's nothing radical or "game changing." However, there are some nice upgrades and improvements. Most prominently, it features a new left column that allows users to filter results by Search Monkey content providers or refine by related concepts. It also features more prominent placement for Search Pad and an expansion of Search Assist. Yahoo says it has also improved image and video search and says speed and performance are better across the board.
Yahoo previewed these new features previously and Danny discussed them at some length in [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Top News, Yahoo: Search, Yahoo: Search Monkey, Yahoo: User Interface
Do A Google Search From Yahoo.com? Maybe…
Sep 17, 2009 at 1:08am ET by Matt McGee
Is it possible that, say a couple years from now, you might visit Yahoo.com and its Bing-powered search engine, but actually search Google, instead?
It seems so. PaidContent reports on Yahoo's appearance Wednesday at the 2009 Deutsche Bank Technology Conference, where Burke Colligan, a senior director for Yahoo Front Doors -- the company's user experience group -- said it's possible the company may someday allow Yahoo users the choice to search a different search engine from the Yahoo home page.
"Right now, we're not doing that but long-term that may not be out of the question. We want t [...]
Filed in: Google: Web Search, Microsoft: Bing, Yahoo: Search, Yahoo: User Interface
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