Comments on: Personal Search: My Yahoo! Search Beta http://www.ysearchblog.com/2004/10/04/personal-search-my-yahoo-search-beta/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:49:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: doug http://www.ysearchblog.com/2004/10/04/personal-search-my-yahoo-search-beta/comment-page-1/#comment-281 doug Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:14:59 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2004/10/04/personal-search-my-yahoo-search-beta/#comment-281 Y!Q searchbar...great tool! i like the idea that i can easily return to my point of initial interest on my yahoo!homepage, immediately. i find it quite handy. doug Y!Q searchbar…great tool! i like the idea that i can easily return to my point of initial interest on my yahoo!homepage, immediately. i find it quite handy. doug

]]> By: Guillaume http://www.ysearchblog.com/2004/10/04/personal-search-my-yahoo-search-beta/comment-page-1/#comment-280 Guillaume Sun, 10 Oct 2004 00:48:12 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2004/10/04/personal-search-my-yahoo-search-beta/#comment-280 Where do you come from??? "personalization is dead"... Can you be more explicit in your comment Where do you come from??? “personalization is dead”… Can you be more explicit in your comment

]]> By: maf http://www.ysearchblog.com/2004/10/04/personal-search-my-yahoo-search-beta/comment-page-1/#comment-279 maf Thu, 07 Oct 2004 13:42:39 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2004/10/04/personal-search-my-yahoo-search-beta/#comment-279 Wakeup yahoo! personalization is dead and you'are not going to change that.. my yahoo! locks up users, not empowers them. How can you be so blind? You used to be such a reasonable company before.. Wakeup yahoo! personalization is dead and you’are not going to change that.. my yahoo! locks up users, not empowers them. How can you be so blind? You used to be such a reasonable company before..

]]> By: Mike http://www.ysearchblog.com/2004/10/04/personal-search-my-yahoo-search-beta/comment-page-1/#comment-278 Mike Wed, 06 Oct 2004 16:12:00 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2004/10/04/personal-search-my-yahoo-search-beta/#comment-278 There are other, possibly better services for searching of PersonalWeb, bookmarks and so on. One such is Simpy ( <a href="http://www.simpy.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.simpy.com</a> ). Delicious is cool, but its search is really bad. There are other, possibly better services for searching of PersonalWeb, bookmarks and so on. One such is Simpy ( http://www.simpy.com ). Delicious is cool, but its search is really bad.

]]> By: Thomas Hawk http://www.ysearchblog.com/2004/10/04/personal-search-my-yahoo-search-beta/comment-page-1/#comment-277 Thomas Hawk Tue, 05 Oct 2004 17:51:44 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2004/10/04/personal-search-my-yahoo-search-beta/#comment-277 I'm kind of interested in this personal search thing but rapidly losing interest in My Yahoo! After using My Yahoo! for many, many years it is beginning to lose it's grasp on my digital life and I may have abandoned it entirely today. With RSS and Bloglines there is no longer any reason to go to My Yahoo! for customized content as I have done in years past. I get better customized feeds in a much better format from Bloglines. So let's see what else I use My Yahoo! for in my own personal case. 1. Calendar. I've always accessed my calendar through my My Yahoo! home page. The problem? I have to click through to actually get my calendar. So instead I've just put a direct link to my calendar in my Firefox quick launch bookmark bar and can go direct skipping the side trip through My Yahoo!. 2. Driving directions. Ditto. I always hated the additional few steps I had to go through from the My Yahoo! home page to actually get my driving directions. Instead I just put a link in my Firefox quick launch bar directly to Yahoo!'s driving directions. 3. What else. Yahoo/SBC mail preview. It does me no good because the majority of the time I want to access this email via My Yahoo! I'm at work and work has blocked Yahoo! mail from coming in to the office. Since I've moved my blog to another hosting company I just use their remote email anyways. So that's it for me. Unless I'm missing something significant here I'm done with My Yahoo! RIP. With Bloglines/RSS, direct buttons to yahoo calendar and driving directions and a non Yahoo! email/hosting provider I simply don't need it anymore. It still bothers me that as an SBC My Yahoo! client I can't upgrade to the beta but frankly I'm not sure that there would be anything there anyways which would convince me to stay. I’m kind of interested in this personal search thing but rapidly losing interest in My Yahoo!
After using My Yahoo! for many, many years it is beginning to lose it’s grasp on my digital life and I may have abandoned it entirely today.

With RSS and Bloglines there is no longer any reason to go to My Yahoo! for customized content as I have done in years past. I get better customized feeds in a much better format from Bloglines.

So let’s see what else I use My Yahoo! for in my own personal case.

1. Calendar. I’ve always accessed my calendar through my My Yahoo! home page. The problem? I have to click through to actually get my calendar. So instead I’ve just put a direct link to my calendar in my Firefox quick launch bookmark bar and can go direct skipping the side trip through My Yahoo!.

2. Driving directions. Ditto. I always hated the additional few steps I had to go through from the My Yahoo! home page to actually get my driving directions. Instead I just put a link in my Firefox quick launch bar directly to Yahoo!’s driving directions.

3. What else. Yahoo/SBC mail preview. It does me no good because the majority of the time I want to access this email via My Yahoo! I’m at work and work has blocked Yahoo! mail from coming in to the office. Since I’ve moved my blog to another hosting company I just use their remote email anyways.

So that’s it for me. Unless I’m missing something significant here I’m done with My Yahoo! RIP. With Bloglines/RSS, direct buttons to yahoo calendar and driving directions and a non Yahoo! email/hosting provider I simply don’t need it anymore.

It still bothers me that as an SBC My Yahoo! client I can’t upgrade to the beta but frankly I’m not sure that there would be anything there anyways which would convince me to stay.

]]> By: Pramod Biligiri http://www.ysearchblog.com/2004/10/04/personal-search-my-yahoo-search-beta/comment-page-1/#comment-276 Pramod Biligiri Tue, 05 Oct 2004 11:45:58 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2004/10/04/personal-search-my-yahoo-search-beta/#comment-276 This is really great!! It would be nice if I could share my search results/bookmarks like Bloglines/public/ or <a href="http://Delicious" rel="nofollow">http://Delicious</a> This is really great!!

It would be nice if I could share my search results/bookmarks like Bloglines/public/ or http://Delicious

]]> By: Guillaume http://www.ysearchblog.com/2004/10/04/personal-search-my-yahoo-search-beta/comment-page-1/#comment-275 Guillaume Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:35:23 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2004/10/04/personal-search-my-yahoo-search-beta/#comment-275 As well as personal dat like emails, briefcase, photos, notepad and all ! As well as personal dat like emails, briefcase, photos, notepad and all !

]]> By: Michael P. http://www.ysearchblog.com/2004/10/04/personal-search-my-yahoo-search-beta/comment-page-1/#comment-274 Michael P. Tue, 05 Oct 2004 08:06:01 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2004/10/04/personal-search-my-yahoo-search-beta/#comment-274 That's a very good idea, it can be very useful. I think it would also be interesting if with "My Yahoo! Search" there was an option to search within the Yahoo! Bookmarks. That’s a very good idea, it can be very useful.

I think it would also be interesting if with “My Yahoo! Search” there was an option to search within the Yahoo! Bookmarks.

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