Yahoo Search Seeks a Hug
September 1, 2010
Yahoo Search now features Bing results. You have to look closely to find the image file, but it was there the last time I looked. So what’s happening at Yahoo search? I am not sure. I did notice a Yahoo blog post.
After the announcement of a Search Alliance with Microsoft’s Bing many people were left wondering whether Yahoo was getting out of the search engine game. “Yahoo’s Shahshahani On Search Evolution” shows a discussion by the head of Yahoo Labs Search Sciences Dr. Ben Shahshahani on the future of the Yahoo search engine. The entire conversation is located on Yahoo’s Search Blog. Shahshahani wanted to announce Yahoo was not ending its Search options but instead improving their outlook on the process. He stated “We like to consider search not as a stateless, information-extraction, but sort of an ongoing dialogue between the user and the system.” They strive to make the search process easier and provide users with search suggestions “to give them the information they need before they even think to search.” Also Yahoo is going to integrate social platforms into its results. It seems Yahoo is clearing up the rumor mill and doing a little PR for its declining Search Engine.
Okay, Yahooligans. Come to Harrod’s Creek. The goose will give you a hug. I hope it helps because I still have to do a lot of clicking to see my Yahoo email, and I find the results of the same query on Yahoo.com quite different when I run the query on Yahoo’s international Web sites.
Stephen E Arnold, September 1, 2010
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