Comments on: Yahoo Search Just Got Smarter

By: Liveblogging Yahoo-Google Conference Call

Liveblogging Yahoo-Google Conference Call — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:27:40 +0000

[...] new display ad platform, will be available next week. Recent announcements such as SearchMonkey, Search Assist, Buzz and others are showing success with consumers. We remain strong in algorithmic [...]

By: What Comes After Google?

What Comes After Google? — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:53:44 +0000

[...] What Comes After Google?Yahoo just released a new Search Assistant feature this week (TechCrunch) (Read/WriteWeb). Ask has been trying a new interface lift for a while (TechCrunch) [...]

By: Sunday Weekly Roundup #11 - 10/07/2007 » Blog at veanndesign.com

Sunday Weekly Roundup #11 - 10/07/2007 » Blog at veanndesign.com — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:44:19 +0000

[...] Yahoo Search got smarter - Yahoo is live with new search enhancements that include Yahoo!’s Search Assist and Yahoo! Shortcuts. [...]

By: The Universal Digital Digest Issue 01 Concept » New Yahoo! Search Features

The Universal Digital Digest Issue 01 Concept » New Yahoo! Search Features — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:25:38 +0000

[...] Yahoo! has recently updated its search tools with some clever new features. Read more… [...]

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Home Office Supply — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:27:00 +0000

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By: hillary hartley

hillary hartley — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:37:15 +0000

i am liking this update a lot. however, the “office sublets” example is, unfortunately, just lucky for you. i am in san francisco (and have my zip code set to sf w/in yahoo), and still all 5 top suggestions are about new york, nyc, or manhattan.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:08:39 +0000

What Comes After Google?…

Question: What Comes After Google?
Yahoo just released a new Search Assistant feature this week (TechCrunch) (Read/WriteWeb). Ask has been trying a new interface lift for a while (TechCrunch) (Read/WriteWeb). While these are all very nice incremental…

By: Jeremy Crane

Jeremy Crane — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:27:46 +0000

Sorry folks … bogus link above … here’s the correct one
http://blog.compete.com/2007/0.....-msn-live/
if you are interested

By: Jeremy Crane

Jeremy Crane — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:17:14 +0000

I’m happy to see Yahoo! getting back into the game. I think the search world could use some creativity. I was pleased to see Ask’s changes a few months ago, but a little disappointed they haven’t caught the public eye a little more. I’m curious whether any changes to web search at this point can have any impact on behavior. It’s funny a few days ago I posted on our blog about Yahoo! getting more click through on search results than Google.

http://blog.compete.com/http:/.....-msn-live/

There’s a lot of complicating factors to my very simply cut of the data but it’s still interesting to see things shifting around a bit.

Also interesting to Jobs speaking to Yahoo! execs … I always thought of Apple and Google being joined at the hip.

By: Aaron R.

Aaron R. — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:46:16 +0000

Has everyone completely overlooked the fact that this is all due to Yahoo’s purchase of Zimbra for $350M? Look at Zimbra, an enterprise grade highly flexible and out-right awesome messaging system, and you’ll start to see Yahoo adopting many of it’s cool features.

Yahoo’s new search looks slightly different with a little Yahoo flava, but it’s all still Zimbra. One of my favorite components of Zimbra has been its search capabilities and obviously Yahoo thought so too- since it took them less than two weeks from their purchase of Zimbra to incorporate this into their own email….

Oh… and since Yahoo blew most of it’s reserve cash on Zimbra ($350M), they must have some pretty big plans??? Yahoo getting into enterprise email??? Me thinks so…..

By: Velioncho

Velioncho — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:50:26 +0000

@jeff,
for simple look like that of Google, see here.
http://search.yahoo.com/web

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Web Tech News Flash: Yahoo Search is Smarter! « Family Resource for You — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:47:38 +0000

[...] and Yahoo search is smarter from techcrunch: [...]

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:32:43 +0000

Great additions Yahoo! Now if you could clean up your homepage already (maybe something between where you’re at and the simplicity of Google), you might borrow some traffic from other SE’s. I find it a waste of brainspace to see a Hannah Montana (who?) and a Buick ad (what?) on the homepage on top of the other 95% irrelevant content…surely I am not alone

By: Insider Chatter by Donna Bogatin » Smart Move? Yahoo Latest Google Universal Search Copycat

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:54:50 +0000

[...] What is so smart about following the leader in a multibillion dollar competitive smackdown? [...]

By: almond

almond — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:39:31 +0000

searching for the phrase ‘u2 lyrics’ gives three results that point back to yahoo’s lyrics site. however, two of the three end up on a generic page with no actual lyrics. trying to view lyrics from within yahoo music itself gives me a similar result. it seems the yahoo music site is full of broken links.

also:

- the lyrics are an image file so you cannot copy and paste them
- “explicit” words (even words like “tit”) are edited from the lyrics

i get a much better experience from any other random lyrics server.

as for integrated movie trailers, reviews and showtimes, it’s good to see yahoo catch up to where google was a year ago. linking to HD trailers is a welcome change from youtube’s quality. but showtimes are only useful if you live in the united states, and that’s where google comes out on top. it understands where “toronto, canada” and “london, uk” are.

By: Norman

Norman — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:05:50 +0000

One of the major problems now and will be getting worse later is the flooding of inaccurate information, ads, or spams and promotions. All these make the search answers become larger and larger, harder and harder or even impossible to find the correct information. The combination of my search with google search, will search 150 sites first then go to google searh. Based on my experience in years, these sites will solve majority of my problems, if not all.

http://topwebsitesGuide.com

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:29:06 +0000

I’m located in North India. The yahoo mainpage loads fine, search doesn’t

By: Jacob Levy

Jacob Levy — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:25:58 +0000

Disclosure — I work for Yahoo Search.

Abhishek, where are you located? I’m not sure whether the new features are launched for all geographies at the same time.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:20:50 +0000

Abhishek — yes you are missing something.

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:17:34 +0000

Am I missing something? Yahoo search page loads without any CSS. And no ajax search suggestions.

By: Velioncho

Velioncho — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:04:00 +0000

Almost after two years, I did a search today on Yahoo to test this feature, and I am really surprised by the whole experience. I have been using google suggestions since existence but yahoo folks nailed it the best. Even the search results seem to be better.

I decided I will try yahoo search for few days. These days, I am not that much happy with Google results anyways. I sincerely hope yahoo does not disappoint me.

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:46:29 +0000

The other day this self-important toothpaste salesman journalist showhost eyebrow raiser interviewed me and some guy from Crisco Systems together, boy, was he annoying!
I’m pretty good at being evasive but this guy kept on point no matter what I said, ARGH! He just kept on asking:
“Soooo are you guys ganna’ buy Yahoo?”
“Are you guys in talks with Yahoo?”
“Well-ah what about Yahoo?”
After Ali-class ducking and weaving, rope-a-doping, thrill’n ‘n Manill’n …. I finally lost it and just yelled:
“If I were, I wouldn’t say anything, and if I weren’t, I wouldn’t say anything!”

To which he replied:
“Soooo, waddayah trying to say?”

At that point I just stopped speaking at all and just gave him the ‘ol Ballmer-blank-stare …..

“Mistar Ballmer, Mistar Ballmer, **snap**snap are you there? Hellooooo, Helloooo ….”

After a minute or two he gave up, ignored me and just started to ask the Crisco guy:
“Soooo sir are you guys ganna buy Yahoo?”
I have to give it to the Crisco guy, he was pretty slippery …. all in all not that bad an interview.

By: phenom

phenom — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:32:43 +0000

that’s awesome….google hasn’t provided anything unique since 2005

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:53:43 +0000

I think search is going the way of everything else on the web - dynamic detection using ajax and similar technologies, when yahoo detects hesitation it offers more search suggestions, that is incredibly cool; often the problem I suffer from is not knowing what other searches I could try to find what I want… the age old old question… how do they talk about what I am looking for out there; often the industry jargon required escapes me.

By: Norman

Norman — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:36:31 +0000

My web has all the websites too, check http://topwebsitesGuide.com