Tinkering with search.yahoo.com
- Posted April 28th, 2005 at 11:03 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: Search Tips
My dad is a bit of a gardener and he’s also recently taken up
roasting tiny batches of coffee
beans. The results, besides earning the title of Papa Barista
from my sister in law, are some great coffee and tasty veggies. He’s
been tinkering on both fronts – in the short term, new types of coffee
beans every few weeks, and in the long term he’s changed the mix in
the garden, putting in more garlic this year, probably to tie in with
the bumper crops of basil he gets and his pesto making activities.
We’ve been doing a little tinkering of our own on the Search front
page at search.yahoo.com. No
surprise that the focus of the page is search, but we got requests to
add mail and news to the page, so we tried to do so with minimal
impact on those who weren’t interested. The result? We added
individual mail and news modules that you can show or hide at will, so
now if want to see your mail status or news headlines (or both),
you’ve got that option. If not, you can simply leave the modules
hidden. The choice is up to you.
Since the response has been good, we’ll continue tinkering. The
latest change to the page is the addition of a link to
search engine that allows you to save, recall, and share information
you find online (check out
post for more info). In the short term we’ll continue to test
some different links and in the long term maybe change the mix a
little as to what is shown where.
What can I say? Like father, like son. Grab a cup of fresh coffee
(skip the pesto for now) and check the Search front page out at
like it. If you think of something you would like to see on the page
or a change you think should be made, by all means, leave a comment
below.
Adam Durfee
Product Manager
Yahoo! Search
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cool, as suggested before a MySearch box with radio button for the created categories would be cool on search.yahoo.com when logged in :)
I would like to see the “mail” button closer on top and have it go directly to the mail page rather than being an extra click away.
This is great! I am glad that Yahoo is realizing that its no Google. It should use all its different services to make the search page as useful as possible.
That’s cool. I want to use the Yahoo Toolbar, but have a thing against beta versions. I’m using Firefox on OS X, is there any date set as to when the official release of the toolbar will be released?
Thank you all for the comments.
Site Tutor – the thinking was to have modules that could show more info (whether you have new mail or what the top headlines were) rather than have navigational links. Do you not want to have the module open?
Nick – I don’t know the date. My experience with the beta Firefox toolbar on XP has been flawless, but I don’t have any first-hand knowledge of the OSX version. There may be more info in the Forums & Feedback area at http://toolbar.yahoo.com/.
Nick – I’ve had no problems using the Toolbar on Mac OS X 10.3.9. Will test it, again, in Tiger when installed on my machine!
A)The colored search “tabs” on the http://www.yahoo.com homepage are nice; you could do the same thing on the search.yahoo.com page
B) Need Help link on page (at top?)
C) Need link to http://www.yahoo.com on page (at top?)
Related subject: I wish one could do consecutive searches with Yahoo sitesearch without using the “back” button; eg if you use the search box at the top of this blog, the second search is on the web; should stay a blog (site)search unless you change it [do it like the Google sitesearch boxes on so many websites]. Thanks :)
Its great seeing all the UI changes taking place across Yahoo! but when are you going to get to fixing the somewhat cluttered interface of Yahoo! Mail?
u cant find my yahoo
How about past history searches on yahoo search toolbar ?
Can you add Yahoo Web Rank button ? Like pagerank in Google……