Comments on: Yahoo Launches Suggest Search Feature

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By: Mia

Mia — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 03:56:19 +0000

Poor Yahoo!. Always a step behind these days.

By: Tom McGovern

Tom McGovern — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:09:04 +0000

We do believe we were first to the market with this tool and we even put it on our “front page” What site is bdb from?

By: iNuron

iNuron — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:44:39 +0000

Yes, there is a diable function (bottom right)

When I use the searchbar in firefox for either google or yahoo search I get these ’suggestions’ too. I can’t remember when I first noticed them but it has been there for quite some time.

It would be great to have a suggestion for alternative spelling when you mistype something. (like the ‘did you mean:’ feature after you search something in google.

By: TienNETi Magazine

TienNETi Magazine — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:16:15 +0000

Yahoo suggest search…

Yahoo ha lanciato suggest search…

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Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:03:12 +0000

[...] Yahoo resmi bloğundan yaptığı açıklama ile arama motoruna tavsiye özelliği eklediğini duyurdu. Yahoo suggest google’ın arama motorundaki tavsiye özelliği gibi kullanıcı yazmaya başladığı anda kelimeleri tamamlayarak kullanıcıya tavsilerde bulunuyor.[Kaynak] [...]

By: bdb

bdb — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:25:05 +0000

@steven, do you really think it was ask.com out of the gates first with this one?

100% Wrong!

I have used this for 3 yrs, and I never knew if it was part of customizegoogle add-on (unaffiliated) or what.

My current understanding is that it was “snap” that was first. Anyone know for sure? Proof?

By: Sze

Sze — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:17:46 +0000

This feature is available at Yahoo Hong Kong for a few months
you can also check it out

By: mikewarm

mikewarm — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:46:24 +0000

google.cn has alreadey offer this feature, you could check it out.

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:47:55 +0000

@agnoster:
> But of those four search engines, Yahoo! is the only one so far to have taken it from the lab and onto their front page

Have you looked at Ask.com lately?

> Don’t get me wrong, being the first to come up with something is very cool…

Sorry to spoil your party

By: Bill Hartzer

Bill Hartzer — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:47:04 +0000

I’ve actually had some fun playing with this feature today, as I’ve been intrigued at the suggestions–which are totally way off base in certain cases.

By: customer service

customer service — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:51:32 +0000

But does this feature help you pick better adwords.

By: Corporate theives

Corporate theives — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:49:45 +0000

You know invented that feature?

Someone did invent that feature. Corporation spend millions dollar stealing people’s hard drive without premission. They do this to increase marketshares.

This is why startups put privacy policy.

By: website copywriter

website copywriter — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:48:52 +0000

Unknowingly, I’ve used this feature a few times. Discovered it by accident, as with gettit, and I thought it was really helpful.

By: agnoster

agnoster — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:56:20 +0000

(Disclaimer: Yahoo! supplies me with tasty coffee, foosball, and a steady paycheck.)

Yes, this feature has been in various labs (Google, Yahoo!, and I imagine MSN and Ask have experimented with live keyword suggestions), or on sub-sites. But of those four search engines, Yahoo! is the only one so far to have taken it from the lab and onto their front page - it might not be innovation in the strictest sense, but the devil’s in the details, and serving live suggestions on the front page is not an engineering achievement to brush off lightly - it takes a lot of tweaking and performance work beyond just showing it can be done.

Don’t get me wrong, being the first to come up with something is very cool - but ultimately, getting stable products out for the masses ain’t easy, but it’s still why we work on technology in the long run. Not just for the nifty hacks (thought Yahoo! doesn’t skimp with those either - see Hack Day), but so that we can bring the new technology to everyone in a way they can rely on and will make their lives better.

By: bdb

bdb — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:42:37 +0000

So it was snap, Russ? I wasn’t sure whose “innovation” this was but I’ve been using this for 3yrs.

By: Tom Chi

Tom Chi — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:40:42 +0000

The reason that this is news is that instead of being a demo at a conference or a special feature to turn on, it is now the default on the world’s biggest start page.

When things are first invented it’s news — when they hit the mainstream it’s big news. Simple as that.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:51:59 +0000

A little late, eh?

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:50:18 +0000

i know it’s supposed to help people search faster and more effectively, but honestly, it’s quite annoying. I know what i want to search for so stop trying to give me suggestions on what to search, dammit!

Just my opinion anyway.

By: Russ Lang

Russ Lang — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:43:40 +0000

I remember when snap launched this back at the first Web 2.0 conference in 1994. It was like ooooh. Then Google copied it for the toolbar, then Yahoo on alltheweb. So this is nothing new.

Amazing that this little feature rises to the leve of a TC post.

Move along now.

By: Ravi

Ravi — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:37:34 +0000

oh finally!
What took them so long?

By: Concrete Stain

Concrete Stain — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:30:23 +0000

This isn’t anything special -

AS SEO; perhaps a way to find relavant keywords even better?

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:26:16 +0000

A gimmick of the “monkey see, monkey do” variety. Zzzz….

By: Jeremiah Owyang

Jeremiah Owyang — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:24:36 +0000

As a Yahoo shareholder, it’s sad that Yahoo always seems late to the party.

Check out this clever “Personas of the top four web companies: Google, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL”

http://www.web-strategist.com/.....companies/