Comments on: Search Tricks #2: News Search http://www.ysearchblog.com/2004/10/26/search-tricks-2-news-search/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:49:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jacob Rosenberg http://www.ysearchblog.com/2004/10/26/search-tricks-2-news-search/comment-page-1/#comment-349 Jacob Rosenberg Thu, 04 Nov 2004 01:57:18 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2004/10/26/search-tricks-2-news-search/#comment-349 Hi Dave- There is a 'Got Feedback?' link in the upper right corner of each one of our news search result pages. That links to a survey which you can fill out and include any comments or suggestions that you have for us. Please be sure to let us know what you think! Hi Dave-

There is a ‘Got Feedback?’ link in the upper right corner of each one of our news search result pages. That links to a survey which you can fill out and include any comments or suggestions that you have for us.

Please be sure to let us know what you think!

]]> By: Dave Golden http://www.ysearchblog.com/2004/10/26/search-tricks-2-news-search/comment-page-1/#comment-348 Dave Golden Wed, 03 Nov 2004 01:31:41 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2004/10/26/search-tricks-2-news-search/#comment-348 Hi, it would be nice for a link on that page to provide feedback or look at existing suggestions. I didn't initially see it. Am I missing something? If not, who is the product manager or the best way to provide feedback? Hi, it would be nice for a link on that page to provide feedback or look at existing suggestions. I didn’t initially see it. Am I missing something? If not, who is the product manager or the best way to provide feedback?

]]> By: Jacob Rosenberg http://www.ysearchblog.com/2004/10/26/search-tricks-2-news-search/comment-page-1/#comment-347 Jacob Rosenberg Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:48:01 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2004/10/26/search-tricks-2-news-search/#comment-347 Hi everyone! I've been away from our Sunnyvale campus for the past couple days so forgive the delay in responding to all your comments. You can find a lot of helpful information at <a href="http://help.yahoo.com/help/news/" rel="nofollow">http://help.yahoo.com/help/news/</a> under the section 'Searching Yahoo! News'. This has information on how to add your content to Yahoo! News Search as well as the list of Y! News Search supported syntax (some of the keywords I discussed in the blog post are not listed there, as they are experimental). There is also a 'suggest a site' link on every news search result page that has information on how to recommend sources for our crawler. Steve: Currently the newstype argument supports only 'news' and 'pr', however we plan to use this keyword for some other classifications in the future. Guillaume and ct: we are looking into putting some more refinement options on our front page at <a href="http://search.yahoo.com/news" rel="nofollow">http://search.yahoo.com/news</a> . Thanks for the suggestions! JH: Not quite sure what you mean by common criteria. The YNS index has over 7,000 editorially selected and reviewed sites, in over 40 languages, from countries all over the world and about all possible news subjects. Alex and Philip: yup, I did mean &vl=lang_de, sorry for the typo. Andrew: yup, the word of the day is supplied by petersons.com and is targeted at students taking the SAT/ACT. I'll pass the suggestion on to the education.yahoo.com folks who own our reference stuff (dictionary, thesaurus, etc). Hi everyone! I’ve been away from our Sunnyvale campus for the past couple days so forgive the delay in responding to all your comments.

You can find a lot of helpful information at http://help.yahoo.com/help/news/ under the section ‘Searching Yahoo! News’. This has information on how to add your content to Yahoo! News Search as well as the list of Y! News Search supported syntax (some of the keywords I discussed in the blog post are not listed there, as they are experimental). There is also a ’suggest a site’ link on every news search result page that has information on how to recommend sources for our crawler.

Steve: Currently the newstype argument supports only ‘news’ and ‘pr’, however we plan to use this keyword for some other classifications in the future.

Guillaume and ct: we are looking into putting some more refinement options on our front page at http://search.yahoo.com/news . Thanks for the suggestions!

JH: Not quite sure what you mean by common criteria. The YNS index has over 7,000 editorially selected and reviewed sites, in over 40 languages, from countries all over the world and about all possible news subjects.

Alex and Philip: yup, I did mean &vl=lang_de, sorry for the typo.

Andrew: yup, the word of the day is supplied by petersons.com and is targeted at students taking the SAT/ACT. I’ll pass the suggestion on to the education.yahoo.com folks who own our reference stuff (dictionary, thesaurus, etc).

]]> By: Andrew http://www.ysearchblog.com/2004/10/26/search-tricks-2-news-search/comment-page-1/#comment-346 Andrew Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:55:32 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2004/10/26/search-tricks-2-news-search/#comment-346 Every so slightly off topic - but RSS. I found the Yahoo "Word of the Day" RSS the other day and immediately set up an LJ community around it. It was immediately popular. Today's word of the day is: condescending There's an irony there! I have a terrible suspicion that Yahoo's Word of the Day is targetted at the young/college level. Oh poo. I'd much rather have interesting words of the day. The sort of word of the day that could be a new addition to someone's vocabulary. Or, in a lame attempt to be on topic, let's have a Word of the Day which is good enough to be News of the Day. :) Every so slightly off topic – but RSS.
I found the Yahoo “Word of the Day” RSS the other day and immediately set up an LJ community around it. It was immediately popular.

Today’s word of the day is: condescending
There’s an irony there!

I have a terrible suspicion that Yahoo’s Word of the Day is targetted at the young/college level. Oh poo.

I’d much rather have interesting words of the day. The sort of word of the day that could be a new addition to someone’s vocabulary. Or, in a lame attempt to be on topic, let’s have a Word of the Day which is good enough to be News of the Day. :)

]]> By: Philip http://www.ysearchblog.com/2004/10/26/search-tricks-2-news-search/comment-page-1/#comment-345 Philip Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:21:39 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2004/10/26/search-tricks-2-news-search/#comment-345 Don't you mean &vl=lang_de Don’t you mean &vl=lang_de

]]> By: Alex Porter http://www.ysearchblog.com/2004/10/26/search-tricks-2-news-search/comment-page-1/#comment-344 Alex Porter Wed, 27 Oct 2004 06:36:35 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2004/10/26/search-tricks-2-news-search/#comment-344 I love the new "Add to My Yahoo!" link in the search results. I'm always browsing for news related to Yahoo...now I can just head to My Yahoo! and instantly see the latest headlines about the company. Great work! Thanks! One little correction: In your line about the German language search, the parameter should be "&vl=lang_de" rather than having the & before the = sign. I love the new “Add to My Yahoo!” link in the search results. I’m always browsing for news related to Yahoo…now I can just head to My Yahoo! and instantly see the latest headlines about the company. Great work! Thanks!

One little correction: In your line about the German language search, the parameter should be “&vl=lang_de” rather than having the & before the = sign.

]]> By: JH http://www.ysearchblog.com/2004/10/26/search-tricks-2-news-search/comment-page-1/#comment-343 JH Wed, 27 Oct 2004 06:33:23 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2004/10/26/search-tricks-2-news-search/#comment-343 Could you please outline the criteria common to the "7,000 sources" ... Could you please outline the criteria common to the “7,000 sources” …

]]> By: ct http://www.ysearchblog.com/2004/10/26/search-tricks-2-news-search/comment-page-1/#comment-342 ct Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:17:12 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2004/10/26/search-tricks-2-news-search/#comment-342 All the search shortcuts listed in this post could be better presented by doing these two things: 1. formatted like the Y! Search Shortcuts: <a href="http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/" rel="nofollow">http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/</a> 2. made available on the News Search frontpage, at the _bottom_ (footer area) of the page - this increases access to these shortcuts without compromising the simplicity of the page. Flickr is one good example: <a href="http://blackbeltjones.typepad.com/work/2004/10/fruit_at_the_bo.html" rel="nofollow">http://blackbeltjones.typepad.com/work/2004/10/fruit_at_the_bo.html</a> (in fact, these would be useful additions to the various search frontpages) All the search shortcuts listed in this post could be better presented by doing these two things:
1. formatted like the Y! Search Shortcuts: http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/
2. made available on the News Search frontpage, at the _bottom_ (footer area) of the page – this increases access to these shortcuts without compromising the simplicity of the page. Flickr is one good example: http://blackbeltjones.typepad.com/work/2004/10/fruit_at_the_bo.html

(in fact, these would be useful additions to the various search frontpages)

]]> By: Matt http://www.ysearchblog.com/2004/10/26/search-tricks-2-news-search/comment-page-1/#comment-341 Matt Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:55:14 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2004/10/26/search-tricks-2-news-search/#comment-341 Ditto to Tim's question in the first comment. I oversee a content site, and our original news is already picked up by Google News and Moreover, but I've never had any luck figuring out how to invite Yahoo News to grab our content, too. Ditto to Tim’s question in the first comment. I oversee a content site, and our original news is already picked up by Google News and Moreover, but I’ve never had any luck figuring out how to invite Yahoo News to grab our content, too.

]]> By: Steve Rubel http://www.ysearchblog.com/2004/10/26/search-tricks-2-news-search/comment-page-1/#comment-340 Steve Rubel Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:23:05 +0000 http://ysearchblog.com/blog/2004/10/26/search-tricks-2-news-search/#comment-340 Jacob, can you post a list somewhere of all the search parameters? For example, what other options are there for newstype? Jacob, can you post a list somewhere of all the search parameters? For example, what other options are there for newstype?

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