Yahoo’s top searches list and Google Trends are great if all you want is raw data on popular searches (possibly to figure out what content to create on your site).
But Yahoo wants to do more with the data. Nicolas Scafuro, who leads the Yahoo Search Team for Latin America, says that his users want to know what’s popular, and they want to see it with pictures.
They’ve launched Yahoo Pop, a new Spanish-language site that ranks the ten most popular searches by day, month and category and shows pictures associated with each search. The site is available for U.S. Hispanics, Mexico and Argentina.
Pop is a destination site, designed to turn aggregate search data into news. And the appeal of visual results is well established (AOL has experimented with a somewhat related product called Mgnet).
Users can tailor the site’s layout, categories and overall look to create their own “module” of popular searches. Archived data for past days and months is also available..
Will this launch in the English U.S. market? Yahoo’s not saying for now, but they have a recent history of trying out new stuff in other countries before they bring it here. Glue, we’ve heard, may make a U.S. debut sometime soon.
I think Yahoo! is in great shape and doesn’t stop innovating. Don’t you think so?
sometimes.
Agreed! I myself would like to not see them revisit some of the same mistakes from last decade!
Check out their stock price for today buddy. Great shape indeed.
Why dont you write about Twing?
Twing is excellent!!!!11
They also got buzz and trends on their site:
http://www.twing.com/buzz/
Yahoo isn’t a startup! Isn’t it a startup blog? pffff
http://www.tech...tful-but-arent/
Cool stuff, hope it comes in english soon!
top searches with pictures…
looks like this page would just be tits and vaj every day
You missed http://a-list.msn.com/
A picture/image based search?
I am a little confused…but how is this different from searching “Images” with the name of the person/celebrity in the search box.
“The site is available for U.S. Hispanics, Mexico and Argentina.” – does this mean no one can use it, if their IP is in some other country??
http://www.livbit.com
Yahoo has different sites by country… and the idea i guess is to release to the audience what mexicans or latinos in US are searching right now… cool stuff
Where are we gonna end with these searches and ranking, it is starting to confuse the users. let go back to origins and history. http://www.yout...-blackjack.html
How good is the net connection in Latin America? Won’t pictures make for a larger, slower website?
Oh lord I clicked that first link, and what looks like 8pt font made my eyes scream…
Mike:
What happened to Mark Hendrickson? Was he kidnapped by envious North Koreans?
sites down now!
works for me…
i am commenting on a kindle. howabout that
No matter how bad people say Yahoo is doing, they keep rolling out cool apps.
Great, an app exclusively for Latin America although it is relevant for the entire world. Way to run a company…develop in silos to maximize efficiency.
This is just a copy of xrank which has been out for a long time now (www.xrank.com).
Yahoo! does make good products, but Google has some Hype machine working for them, everytime they launch something the early adopters/power user pitch for them so generously