The New Yahoo Search

Yahoo is launching a new search portal today that will make searches more “personally relevant.” According to the Yahoo Search Blog, “the page is designed to help you easily find and explore the things that matter most to you. This delivers a dynamic, compelling, and integrated experience that better understands what you are looking for so you can get things done quickly on the Web.”  Many users are just glad to finally see some life out of Yahoo, with the recent launches of the new home page, Yahoo Mail, upgraded Yahoo Messenger, and mobile developments.

Some Key Highlights from Yahoo:

  • Intelligent Search Results – Allows you to explore results from key sites and narrow results using different types of SearchMonkey structured data. Over the past few months, even more enhanced results for product, local, entertainment, reference, social, and tech sites have been displayed automatically.
  • Feature-Rich Experience – Provides quick access to search features that make people’s online lives safer and easier, including Search Scan/SafeSearch (which helps protect you from viruses, spyware, and spam while you search) and Search Pad. Now it will be even easier to return to the research documents you have created while searching.
  • Search Assist Expansion – With the new design, the powerful query assistance is still available directly below the search box, but they’ve also incorporated it into the left-hand column for quick access lower on the page, even when the Search Assist layer is hidden. You can use this column to easily explore and discover concepts related to your query. We have added Search Assist to the search box on every Yahoo! page in the U.S. with the launch of a new universal header.
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