Yahoo Glue, a new search results page design that the company has been testing in India, is rolling out to the US market this evening. You can view it at glue.yahoo.com, although Yahoo says it is rolling out in stages, so sit tight if you don’t see it.
It’s also a little different than the Indian version, and includes a number of resources beyond what India’s version of Glue offers. On a typical query, content from Wikipedia, Yahoo Shopping, Yahoo Answers, blog search results (from Google) and YouTube videos are shown.
For the US, Yahoo is starting with a limited set of topics and using a two column instead of a three column design. They’ve also left out the search results altogether. In this example for Barack Obama, prominent links to Memorandum (a political blog aggregator) are also shown.
Yahoo says they won’t use Glue to replace search in the US. Instead it seems to be a useful content page that brings in data from lots of different sources on topics.
Might be useful to synthesize pages for all queries even they don’t have the same quality of data. I guess this might be interesting competition for kosmix & mahalo? (in the sense of building topic pages)
An easy way for users to suggest urls who’s content can be displayed in the results page in an ajax like frame might also be useful.
Will it stick? No punt intented. I feel Yahoo! is trying really hard to be hip like it’s 1995; but does it matter any more? For now, I will stick with Google, because that’s where I get what I want.
I wouldn’t really hate to say it, but you may eat your words sometimes in the near future.
Yes, but you work for yahoo, so…
An anonymous comment supporting Yahoo! after their latest string of funky news certainly screams – EMPLOYEE.
It’s very hard to put trust in a company that may be another notch in the innovation through acquisition Microsoft belt. Google rules for a reason.
I think all search results pages (Google included) will look something like this in a couple of years. The basic idea is right to show search results this way, but maybe with a little more emphasis on links to websites. I also think Microsoft will be running Yahoo’s search engine in a couple of years (or a lot sooner). So this is all temporary.
good ,jerry give yahoo new engine
Why does Michael write ungrammatical sentences such as “different than”?
he’s southern?
There’s only a limited number of Glue Pages. I looked up some companies and names that are available on google and yahoo search, but not on the glue page…after going to google’s glue page, I discovered a link to submit a new glue page idea – but it was an email link…I’m just wondering if they’re going to start dynamically building and caching content, instead of manually (which is what I assume they’re doing now)…unless they’re considering User Generated Content, in which case it might be reasonable.
Either way, the platform still needs some fine tuning and something more to instigate the migration of users over to yahoo from google.
It’s a good sign of change of Yahoo. This and Buzz!, after some fine tuning of course, are possibly great products. I’m looking forward for newer developments!
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I like it, although it does not appear to be dynamic….
Mike, weren’t you saying how Yang stepping down added “billions in shareholder value instantly” ???
http://finance....p;q=NASDAQ:YHOO
Looks like your Yang firing recovery theory was dead wrong. If anything Yang leaving made it even worse.
I cashed out a LONG time ago. Thank god I found out that the hedge funds had yet to liquidate, and that the margin traders were running out on their loans.
They’re ALL out of money!
Gas is $2.10 a gallon here in Long Beach. Wall street loses, we win! Hooray California! Hooray Japan!
BTW, Forbes just scooped you.
http://www.forb.../ap5717664.html
“Ba11mer dismisses Yahoo buyout but open on search”
Yahoo is pretty much gone. It will take YEARS before their value returns. They really should have taken that deal.
OK, if I was Yahoo I definitely would not be showing anything “Google”
The service is….. “OK” may need a re-design and few more rounds of optimization but hey, anything new at Yahoo I am all for it.
Best,
Mike
Hi Mike, Yahoo Glue is Very good and got very good response in India. Now a days all are testing new apps in India like Google, Yahoo …
Here is my review on Yahoo Glue India
Sorry, but your country is poor (very little ad $). What works in India won’t necessarily translate well in the US (different cultures/ economic status). Look at GDP if you want to understand.
haha .. thats true .. but look 5 years down the line – emerging markets are becoming stronger markets every day!
Fundamentally I love the Glue’s approach i.e. to aggregate content from different sources for a given topic. However, to do this really well one has walk the last mile. Glue has much to catch up with Kosmix on that. To illustrate Glue does not have results for many topics. And for the ones it has, the pages are not as rich as can be. For instance take thee topics: Techcrunch, Seinfeld, and NFL. Glue has no pages but corresponding pages on Kosmix are actually very rich:
http://www.kosm.../topic/seinfeld, http://www.kosm....com/topic/NFL?
http://www.kosm....com/topic/2008 Olympics?
Right..while not forgetting that kosmix is nothing but “stealing” content and slapping ads on the pages and resulting in arbitrage!
Thats not the normal page you land on for kosmix by the way..I like to refer to it as “cloaking” at its best..show the normal users and search engines this ugly stolen content and show adwords and yahoo search marketing a page filled with ads..
I have no idea what you’re talking about. It’s fair use really. It’s equivalent to Google News except with more types of content. Tons of sites have internal APIs which they don’t list, I know that because I email them to see if they have them in the first place. If they place ads on their page, why not? Last I checked, bandwidth and harddrive space is still not free. Stealing content from sites like Hulu, Flickr, Youtube, Google Search, Google Maps, Yahoo! Answers, Scribd is not exactly stealing, considering they have pretty good APIs that allow developers extract data they need to put on their site.
why google blog search? first of google is a competitor, and secondly there are much better blog search engines than google.
Yahoo must be sucking up to google
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I think they are trying to do something like Propeller which belongs to AOL.
This is a pretty weak effort, and doesn’t automatically fall back to Yahoo standard search if there is no “glue” page.
I think it is a weaker implementation of what Ask.com tried in 2007.
Looks pretty cool.
Yahoo! is always rolling out cool shit, it’s such a shame they’re always in trouble, and an even worse shame if they fold or get broken up.
Glue kind of reminds me of Mahalo.com