Comments on: Livesearch on AlltheWeb

By: Julian PC

Julian PC — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:23:16 +0000

Yeah! What happened to Fast Search AlltheWeb?
I, too am annoyed and mystified!

By: NCM

NCM — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 23:34:08 +0000

What the heck happened to alltheweb.com? All I get is a Yahoo window with the words “Sorry, Bad Request” when I look for it.

I Want My alltheweb!!!! (`(

By: Goyahoo!

Goyahoo! — Fri, 12 May 2006 18:11:50 +0000

I kind of like it. Maybe could use a little tweaking as stated above but kinda handy at times. Be neat to see it on yahoo when it gets perfected.

I also seen different results pop in and out of the Yahoo serps yesterday. They were much better results in that there were more relevant sites than the mess that the serps currently have. They were pretty good as in better than MSN and equal to Google in my opinion. There were 4 different sets of results. One very old. One as it is now. And 2 new ones. One can be seen in Yahoo australia. But there was another set also that I just don’t see anymore. It was awesome. Is there an update or an algo tweak in the process?

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 11 May 2006 17:24:19 +0000

Homeless Dave,

Couldn’t agree with you more. Intelligent search vs someone trying to hawk a used car as new…brilliant.

Have you all seen the “new” home page for Yahoo Australia? Perhaps we are in for an update here too.

au(dot)yahoo(dot)com

By: www.homelessdave.com/totterhome.htm

www.homelessdave.com/totterhome.htm — Thu, 11 May 2006 11:56:03 +0000

The suggestions you get on the fly are all well and good, but kind of suggestons are they? They’re just more search terms. What would be radical is if the suggestions you got on the fly were more encyclopedic in character. So when I typed in ‘teeter totter’ the list of suggestions I actually got was this:

# teeter totters
# little tikes teeter totter
# teeter totter plans
# gym dandy teeter totter
# hedstrom teeter totter
# naturally playful teeter totter
# how to build a teeter totter
# teeter totter watch
# teeter twirl teeter totter

What’s this tool supposed to help the user actually DO? Is is supposed to help the user do the same old same old search … just faster … by doing some of the typing? I mean, seriously, ‘teeter totters’ as a suggestion in response to ‘teeter totter’?!

I say forget the LIVE part of it. The sheer whiz joy of watching the list of suggestions change with each keystroke wears off pretty fast.

What I’d like is this:

(i) I type in ‘teeter totter’.
(ii) I can then either SEARCH or CHECK INDEX
(iii) SEARCH delivers the usual results; CHECK INDEX gives me the following list:

Teeter Totter
Buy one
Build one
Kinds
Figurative
Literal
Pictures of
Events staged on
Misc mentions of

And when I click on one of those suggestions, the results I get dependably fit these categories. So if the web page is some random guy saying, “I have no clue how to build a teeter totter” then that shows up under results returned under Teeter Totter: Misc mentions of, but not under Teeter Totter: Build one.

Now for all I know, this fits into the category of been-there-tried-that and that’s just not what people want.

As for me, I want smarter search. Not slicker UI.

Thanks.

By: An

An — Thu, 11 May 2006 01:38:40 +0000

Care to explain what technology is being used that other browsers lack the support of?

By: John Magnus

John Magnus — Wed, 10 May 2006 23:02:26 +0000

And by the way…
There seem to be an error with the URI validator of mt-comments/this blog. Keeps returning an error if I supply an URI in the comments form. The actual error message says something like:
“Comment submission failed for the following reasons.
Comment could not be submitted due to questionable content: content: h-t-t-p:”
(The dashes are mine, the validator didn’t accept the original spelling…)
Once I emitted a value for the “Weblog URL” field, the comment went through…

By: mcepat

mcepat — Wed, 10 May 2006 22:56:23 +0000

Ya the naming of your product is pretty damn lame, Microsoft already has Live Search so it looks like you guys weren’t good eneogh to come up with your own branding so you just copied someone else, you search is pretty bad compared to Microsoft Live Search, actually you could say they blow you out of the water, especially when it comes to image search.

bit of advice, improve your results and change your name, and also how about changing your yahoo homepage, everytime I see it I think I am back in the 90’s

By: John Magnus

John Magnus — Wed, 10 May 2006 22:53:40 +0000

Sounds like a great idea. Though I’m a bit insulted by the fact that you’ve (gone down the MSN & Google path and) decided that this is something that I, as a Opera user, isn’t interested in (instead of letting me test the service and decide for myself).

Maybe it’s just me, but; I thought that presenting a service that only works in a couple of browser/OS configuration was a thing of the past. Especially from someone which is in competition with the one company that benefits the most from lack of cross-browser compatibility in web-sites and services…

By: Venu

Venu — Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:27 +0000

Nice technology here.

But Guys,I find it more and more tedious trying out different betas at different places.

you got to find a way to roll them out from yahoo.com or atleast one source of truth.