Inquisitor Joins the Yahoo! Search Team
- Posted May 9th, 2008 at 9:03 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: Search
Last year, Yahoo! Search launched Search Assist to help users find what they’re looking for quickly and easily by providing query suggestions and related concepts in real-time. Today, Yahoo! Search is embracing the Mac community and offering similar search assistance features with the acquisition of Inquisitor software, a Safari browser plug-in.
Inquisitor 3, a search technology that auto-completes queries and delivers results right in Safari Web browser, is similar to Yahoo!’s existing Search Assist technology. Simply type in your query and websites will appear immediately, as well as suggestions for refining your search. Just as with Search Assist, the goal with Inquisitor is to help users find exactly the site they’re looking for as quickly as possible.
The new version of Inquisitor removes affiliate ad links, simplifies the search provider selection interaction and refines the preferences user interface. Additionally, the new version provides quick access to Yahoo! Search however, existing users may still utilize their current default search engine or a different search engine entirely, such as a vertical alternative like Amazon or Flickr, if they prefer.
While search interface design has remained fairly utilitarian over the years, David Watanabe, founder and developer of Inquisitor, has done a fantastic job designing a simple and elegant UI. David and our team of macphiles will continue to innovate on both form and function for Inquisitor.
Mac users have been using the Inquisitor plug-in already and they seem to like it. It’s a free download, so whether you’re familiar with it or just trying it out for the first time with Yahoo! Search, let us know what you think in the comments below.
Ariel Seidman
Director of Product Management
Yahoo! Search
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Wow, this is pretty awesome. I love Inquisitor — it’s what I based the Flock search dropdown on… Now you just need to open source it to keep with your new Yahoo! Open kick! ;)
Nice move.. I “bought” inquisitorx when it was donationware, and I’m always been SO satisfied with it…
this is the best thing that could happen to David Watanabe…
yahoo…why don’t you buy all the other projects David started? :)
Would be fine to have such tool in German too. If I can help … just call ;)
The only thing that disappoints me about this is I was really really hoping Apple would buy it and make it a part of Safari! I hope Yahoo will put some effort into convincing Apple to allow a proper way to add features like this to Safari (or just get it outright integrated). It’s a beautiful piece of software, it’s just unfortunate that it relies on the InputManager hack to work.
This is GREAT. I love my mac — but when using Safari in the Yahoo office i kept getting results from the default search engine…not good when you work for Yahoo! This will make a great addition to the Y! mac experience. Good move.
Something for Mac users thanks for not forgetting us guys.
Something for Mac users thanks for not forgetting us guys.
Very well then! That´s great and what MAC/Safari Users have been waiting for a long time! It´s great, thank you!!
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Very well then! That´s great and what MAC/Safari Users have been waiting for a long time!
Very well then! That´s great and what MAC/Safari Users have been waiting for a long time! It´s great, thank you!!
Very well then! That´s great and what MAC/Safari Users have been waiting for a long time! It´s great, thank you!!
Wow! very nice article and idea, That´s great and what MAC/Safari Users have been waiting for a long time! It´s great, thank you
Wow! very nice article and idea, That´s great and what MAC/Safari Users have been waiting for a long time! It´s great, thank you
This is GREAT. I love my mac — but when using Safari in the Yahoo office i kept getting results from the default search engine…not good when you work for Yahoo! This will make a great addition to the Y! mac experience. Good move.
Just upgraded to Safari 4.0. No more Inquisitor. Will there be a Safari 4.0-compatible Inquisitor anytime soon?
yahoo improving..Yahoo must be best search engine on the world.
Very well then! That´s great and what MAC/Safari Users have been waiting for a long time! It´s great, thank you!!
Where do i go when i am having problems with this application? It was working fine until one day when i emptied my cookies folder in Safari using the usual way (Safari > Empty Cache) Now whenever i search i just get ‘Local’ Localimageshelp and alot of jumbled text, any advice?
Very well then! yahoo improving
That´s great and what MAC/Safari Users have been waiting for a long time!
Very well then!
Good move…but I would like to see Inquisitor working with new Safari 4 Beta. Inquisitor is a must have, Safaru new search box it is still not so powerful like Inq.
So hope to see an update soon!
i would love user friendly yahoo mail system. its full of ads.
Right, yahoo improving..Yahoo must (is) be best search engine on the world.
thanks.This will make a great addition to the mac experience
Great experience for us. Thank you.
Great experience , thx a lot. Mc for life!
it’s what I based the Flock search dropdown on…
Something for Mac users thanks for not forgetting us guys.
Finally, it is also available for the mac. Thank you!
That´s great and what MAC/Safari Users have been waiting for a long time!
Really Cool I dont have an Mac but it looks good =).
Any idea when Inquisitor will be available for Safari 4? The lack of Inquisitor for Safari 4 is one of the main reasons I use Firefox. But, I would like to switch to S4. I need the ability to see varius searches in Google, Yahoo and MSN (I’m an internet marketer).
Thank you! Nice work.
Nice, but it would be interesting to see integration of Inquisitor in S4 to search Google, Yahoo and MSN