Yahoo.com Adds Search Suggestions

Jul 12, 2007 at 8:49am ET by Barry Schwartz

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.

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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ONE COMMENT ON Yahoo.com Adds Search Suggestions

Tony Ruscoe, July 12th, 2007 at 1:11 pm ET:

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.

:-)

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