Yahoo Audio Search Adds Inline Previews

Aug 20, 2007 at 2:21pm ET by Barry Schwartz

The Yahoo Search Blog announced they have added inline audio samples to their audio search feature.

So now when you do a search on free bird, you can listen to a quick sample before clicking for more.

You simple click on “Play Sample” and you should hear the audio come out of your speakers.

You can stop playing the sample at any time.

Here is a screen capture:

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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2 COMMENTS ON Yahoo Audio Search Adds Inline Previews

Todd Mintz, August 20th, 2007 at 2:51 pm ET:

Placing the Charlie Daniels version of “Free Bird” ahead of Lynyrd Skynryd version shows that Yahoo has a long way to go in serving up quality search results:.)

rustybrick, August 20th, 2007 at 4:03 pm ET:

Seriously. Thanks for commenting on that.

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