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Yahoo! Continues To Test Search Powered Features

By: Rene LeMerle
2010-08-09

Youd think that Yahoo! would be winding down their investment into search related developments given the Search Alliance finally coming to fruition " BUT youd be wrong! Yahoo! is continuing to test and invest in search powered features, with the goal of leveraging the new Search Alliance and ensuring the Bing integration is generating the best experience for their users.



Yahoo! Continues To Test Search Powered Features
Yahoo! Continues To Test Search Powered Features


Yahoo! is continuing to test and invest in search powered features, with the goal of leveraging the new Search Alliance and ensuring the Bing integration is generating the best experience for their users.

Search is evolving to mean more than entering keywords in a text box " at Yahoo! we believe its also about finding the right information at the right time. To help people discover information they want online, were enhancing and rolling out new search-powered features across the Yahoo! network.

One of the features that are already generating positive results for the former search titan is Trending Now lists " which provide users easy access to searches generating the greatest buzz.

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You can find the Trending Now list on the Yahoo.com homepage, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, omg!, and more. When you click on any of the terms on the Trending Now list, you will find the latest information about a hot topic and discover related content from Yahoo! Search.

Yahoo! is also working on some new News based search features. The screen shot below highlights testing of how related information will be integrated into news posts.

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So while the search results might be coming from elsewhere, Yahoo! is very much committed to ensuring that theyre integrated in the most engaging way " its all about holding their market share!

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About the Author:
Rene is the marketing manager of ineedhits.com - a global search engine marketing company. He also leads the marketing for Gooruze.com - a web 2.0 style community for online and digital marketers. Rene has been in the industry since 1997 with much of that time spent helping businesses embrace the best of the internet and digital world.


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