Tuesday, July 06, 2004
John Battelle's Searchblog: "Yahoo's New Search Results Page...
(Logging in from BookLand with more news...) Yahoo has tweaked its search page....click on the gif at the left for a larger shot...this will fully populate Yahoo's servers by later this week, I'm told. The main changes: slightly muted colors, slightly cleaner design, and the 'Related' searches have been moved and renamed 'Also try...' This feature (which is not a new idea, but still, this is Yahoo...) was found to be very valuable but underutilized in its previous form. I think it's a neat feature, it adds another beat to the search process - rather like the 'Did you mean?' approach in spellchecking. It's based on analysis of logfiles for possibly related searches..."
(Logging in from BookLand with more news...) Yahoo has tweaked its search page....click on the gif at the left for a larger shot...this will fully populate Yahoo's servers by later this week, I'm told. The main changes: slightly muted colors, slightly cleaner design, and the 'Related' searches have been moved and renamed 'Also try...' This feature (which is not a new idea, but still, this is Yahoo...) was found to be very valuable but underutilized in its previous form. I think it's a neat feature, it adds another beat to the search process - rather like the 'Did you mean?' approach in spellchecking. It's based on analysis of logfiles for possibly related searches..."
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