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Launch Party at the "Search Bar"
Date : 2007 10 03 Yahoo! Search BlogHere are a few photos taken at yesterday's internal launch party for the new Yahoo! Search. After many sleepless nights, it's great to see some of the positive reactions from users. Now that we've had a few celebratory drinks -- the Yahootini was quite popular -- we're back to working on more new features a read more »
From "To Do" to "Done" in One Search
Date : 2007 10 01 Yahoo! Search BlogThat sums up Yahoo! Search in a nutshell; the whole point is we want to get you from "to do" to "done." Whatever it is you want to do: research a topic, find a website, plan a vacation, research a medical condition, view a funny video, or any of the other billions of queries we get from users -- their intents read more »
Flickr and Explorer Bar Expand in Image Search
Date : 2007 09 19 Yahoo! Search BlogBuilding on our initial announcement of Flickr's integration into Yahoo! Image Search earlier this summer, we've now expanded the integration to the countries, regions and languages listed below. You can now access many Flickr images when doing your Yahoo! Image Search from the following countries: Asia, Ar read more »
One Weekend, oneSearch
Date : 2007 09 14 Yahoo! Search BlogI went to a wedding in Marquette, Michigan a couple of weekends ago. The weather? A beautiful 85 degrees Fahrenheit. The weekend-long celebration? Actually, pretty fun. My date? Yahoo! oneSearch. Yes, Yahoo! oneSearch and I were quite the pair. I color-coordinated my tie and dress shirt with oneSearch's read more »
Come and Explore your Site...
Date : 2007 09 10 Yahoo! Search BlogYahoo! Small Business just made it easier for customers to submit and authenticate their sites to Yahoo! Site Explorer. Now, all you have to do is make sure that 'sitemap.xml' is enabled and your site will be submitted to Yahoo! Site Explorer automatically. With this feature, new stores as well as existing read more »
Take to the Open Roads...
Date : 2007 08 30 Yahoo! Search BlogGas relief comes not from a bottle, but from the pumps. As summer draws to an end, the meter has dropped a few pennies -- enough to tempt perhaps one more asphalt adventure. And, with Labor Day weekend upon us, what better way to spend your time than the open roads? "Road trips" buzz usually peaks in April, read more »
First-Timer with Yahoo! and SES San Jose
Date : 2007 08 27 Yahoo! Search BlogHeading into the Search Engine Strategies (SES) conference in San Jose last week, I'd been at Yahoo! just over a week. The four-day summer event was a welcome respite to my new gig and certainly to some of my colleagues who were beginning to feel a little stuffed in their cubes and meeting rooms. We all hea read more »
Are You Ready for Some Football?
Date : 2007 08 23 Yahoo! Search BlogFor the past few weeks, Major League Baseball has been the only game in town -- and the only Sports Shortcut on Yahoo! Search. But all that has changed. The National Football League is on the horizon, putting an end to the preseason speculation, the glory of last year's Fantasy Football championships and th read more »
What Do Laptops and Hypothyroidism Have in Common?
Date : 2007 08 22 Yahoo! Search BlogMore than you think because we've expanded upon the popular narrowing options for restaurants and hotels (try San Diego restaurants or San Diego hotels). Now searches for popular queries around electronics, medical conditions and medications also display narrowing shortcuts on Yahoo! Search. If you happen read more »
Weather Report -- Major Crawl Improvements
Date : 2007 08 22 Yahoo! Search BlogIf you haven't been busy at SES in our neck of the woods this week, you might have noticed we've been rolling out fresh updates to our crawl, index and ranking systems -- ones that are relatively significant for webmasters. In response to feedback from the community, we're reducing our crawling machines by read more »
Be Dynamic, Be Confident -- Yahoo! Search Supports You
Date : 2007 08 21 Yahoo! Search BlogPlease excuse the dramatic start to this post. Between the anticipation of rolling this out and my incessant Harry Potter reading, I couldn't resist. Once upon a time, on the World Wide Web, all URLs were fixed strings -- static in form. The idea of URL parameters then came along, allowing for database drive read more »
Be Dynamic, Be Confident -- Yahoo! Search Supports You
Date : 2007 08 21 Yahoo! Search BlogPlease excuse the dramatic start to this post. Between the anticipation of rolling this out and my incessant Harry Potter reading, I couldn't resist. Once upon a time, on the World Wide Web, all URLs were fixed strings -- static in form. The idea of URL parameters then came along, allowing for database drive read more »
Who Doesn't Love Samples?
Date : 2007 08 20 Yahoo! Search BlogWhen was the last time you suddenly remembered a favorite song and craved to hear a piece of it right away? If you're like me, it happens pretty often. Now on Yahoo! Audio Search you can play samples of millions of songs. The new inline player provides instant playback right next to the search results. read more »
Sweet 16 at SES
Date : 2007 08 17 Yahoo! Search BlogThere's a sense of anticipation in the San Jose air. It's summertime and what's hotter than the Fahrenheit (or Celsius) in the Silicon Valley city this time of year? Perhaps it's the influx of high-tech and Internet companies gearing up to attend Search Engine Strategies(SES) at the San Jose Convention Cent read more »
Power To The (Local) People...
Date : 2007 08 15 Yahoo! Search BlogThe team here at Yahoo! Local, the source behind the shortcuts that appear at the top of the search results page when you do searches like "New York, NY restaurants," rolled out some new features today. We've been working on some changes to our Local search capabilities to better utilize the millions of user read more »
Take Me Out to the Ballgame...
Date : 2007 08 09 Yahoo! Search BlogUnless you're a huge sports fanatic, you may find it hard to keep up with all the new players in professional sports. I used to be pretty good at it back when I collected baseball cards, or when I was able to watch news and highlights every night. These days, I don't have the time to track it all, especiall read more »
Growing Search Suggestions...
Date : 2007 08 03 Yahoo! Search BlogOver the past several months, Yahoo! has been rolling out Search Suggestions to users across Firefox browsers (aka "chrome search" for the geeks among us), Yahoo! Toolbar for Firefox and, most recently, Yahoo.com. And today, we're expanding Search Suggestions to Yahoo! Toolbar for Internet Explorer. Now, a read more »