Taking Search Assist to the Streets
- Posted March 21st, 2008 at 8:00 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: Search
Back in October, we launched Search Assist on the Yahoo! Search U.S. results page to help searchers formulate their queries when we detect they’re having trouble and explore related concepts to find the page they’re looking for. Since then, we’ve seen positive responses from the press and industry research firms. We’ve also extended the feature across Yahoo! Search channels and to consumers worldwide, and as of today, Search Assist is available in 15 markets and 7 languages.
We’ve rolled out Search Assist to the following countries, with more to come soon:
Argentina
Australia
Brazil
Canada
France
Germany
Italy
Mexico
New Zealand
Philippines
Singapore
Spain
UK
Vietnam
The international versions of Search Assist are tailor-made to reflect local search behavior and tendencies. So when you search for ‘spurs‘ at Yahoo! UK Search, Search Assist won’t suggest the San Antonio NBA team like it does in the U.S. Instead, it’ll offer suggestions like Tottenham Hotspur soccer team.
Beyond the Front Page and search results page, Search Assist can be accessed through the Yahoo! Toolbar, and most recently on My Yahoo!. In honor of March Madness, try a search for ‘bracket‘ from My Yahoo!.
Enjoy and let us know your thoughts.
Ya-Bing Chu
Yahoo! Search
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Too bad you didn’t roll it out yesterday. It could have been debuted during the keynote at SES
Search assist does rank merit; however I want to see even more suggestions than what is currently listed. If yahoo will continue to improve this feature then yahoo will challenge google as the top search engine. Yahoo which lacks customer service in most departments needs to revamp customer service in each department to become the industry leader.
We would like search assist improved even more. Each new feature is appreciated.
If you could set it to allow a person to tab throught the list that would be even better.
I have many friends in other countries that will love this. Thanks
Too bad this thing doesnt remember to stay turned off when you hit “never”. I have lots of friends that would love to have to tell it to stay turned off every other day. Bugs, bugs, BUGS!
You ever gonna fix that?
Too bad this thing doesnt remember to stay turned off when you hit “never”. I have lots of friends that would love to have to tell it to stay turned off every other day. Bugs, bugs, BUGS!
You ever gonna fix that?
If you could set it to allow a person to tab throught the list that would be even better.
Search assist does rank merit; however I want to see even more suggestions than what is currently listed.
Search assist does rank merit; however I want to see even more suggestions than what is currently listed
Much appreciated feature. Yahoo! Search channels are attracting more traffic day to day.
Yahoo is very group specific and is far better that Google on targeting the smaller groups of people.
As usual Yahoo is far more connected with people on a social level, just get your search logarithms more relevant and you’ll steal the show.
We would like to see search assist with more than 10 keywords. It is a challenge