Comments on: Search Tricks #1

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:07:35 +0000

This is excellent. I love it!

By: Pat McDonald

Pat McDonald — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 21:59:34 +0000

A new search tool for Firefox users is the Firefox Toolbar for Yahoo.(yes, this is a shameless plug)

Http://www.firefoxtoolbar.com/yahoo

It searches all of the yahoo properties, including Launch.Yahoo. It also allows you to add/delete/change any engine you want.

Only for firefox. If you have IE,(get Firefox) use the yahoo companion.

thanks,
-Pat

By: Jeremy Leader

Jeremy Leader — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 00:43:53 +0000

dave wrote: out of curiosity, do ANY of your ideas come from WOMEN???? I know of at least one woman researcher at Yahoo Research Labs, Rosie Jones, Sr. Researcher in Algorithms: http://research.yahoo.com/staff/algorithms/jonesr.xml

By: jr

jr — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:17:50 +0000

Ah, good, I was just being dense then, Mad. (May I call you Mad? ;) )

I know that there’s great plans afoot for changing the top page (Nope, they won’t tell me what they are) and we’re always looking for suggestions. I’m definitely passing that along.

By: The Mad Dater

The Mad Dater — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:05:32 +0000

JR: By graphical I, meant visual aid.

Hey searchers are lazy ( I guess this would be why there are so many studies that say people only look through the first 2 pages of a search) and I’m no different ( I only look through the first few and then refine my search – or god forbid use another search engine).

I don’t know wheat it is – ther’s so much info on the yahoo home page that your eyes just zone them out. (even the highlighted stuff) So you do a search and hope you find the info.

I wonder if you all have ever tested how much pwople know about your home page. Example: even though the CNN home page is filled with many things. I know where these things are and can probably draw from memory what the cnn page looks like. I couldn’t tell you what’s on the Yahoo page other than the search box. (I’ve memorized mail.yahoo.com – so that I don’t have to look for it)

Hope this helps
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By: tim

tim — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:59:46 +0000

Excellent post – a lot of this information is new to me. For the future, I would suggest an entry that deals with search relevance and how Yahoo!’s search capability is unique.

By: jr

jr — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:25:46 +0000

Rudy: Just asked the local folks. Sorry, no hidden shortcuts are available. They spent most of their time getting things working. I guess we should give them a few weeks before we start pestering for cool add-ons. ;)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 16:39:51 +0000

Well what I personally have in mind in order to make the shortcuts easier to remenber would be a sort of drop down menu at the beginning of the search box,but I dunno if this is possible; for example

site:
define:
convert:
…

Or it could be some buttons to click on that would automatically enter the keywords of the entry in the search box. In this this sense, the shortcut Categoty table of this page http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/ is intuitive…but i would have ONE search box on the page of course

By: rac

rac — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:15:38 +0000

Hate to mention opposition but have you seen soople.com which someone has cleverly spent time creating. How about someone doing the same for yahoo?

By: Kimspitstop.dk

Kimspitstop.dk — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:13:25 +0000

Yahoo Buzz Index

Well, the buzz index can give a clue
combined with the knowledge from Overture,
but that would only be “paid search terms”
anyway not everybody search for popular person’s, names ect.
So a more common buzz category would be appreciated!

Kind regards
Ps: Can see that the olympic is the overall topic around the globe not only on TV but also as an search term and the next would proberly bee XMAS
“what would peoble wish for X-mas”
Can Yahoo predict what kind of gift under the Xmas tree most peoble want :O) Just kidding