Inquisitor Gets Smarter, Faster and Multi-Lingual

  • Posted August 13th, 2008 at 7:40 am by Yahoo! Search
  • Categories: Search

A few months back we announced the acquisition of Inquisitor software, which helped to extend our query suggestion features, similar to Yahoo!’s Search Assist, to the Mac community. We’ve been quietly working on enhancements since, and today we’re rolling out a new look, a few performance improvements and we’re also going global.

To start with we tapped into the Yahoo! Search infrastructure, using the recently announced Yahoo! Search BOSS, our open search web services platform, in order to speed up the search results delivered in Inquisitor. You should notice a significant improvement in the speed of your query results in Yahoo! Search. We also gave Inquisitor a little facelift with a new, refined, yet simple home page (inquisitorx.com) and a cleaner user interface of the Inquisitor client.

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You can now also utilize Inquisitor in different languages, eight to be exact, including Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and German.

Great design will continue to be a pillar of Inquisitor. We hope you enjoy these changes, and as always, let us know what you think in the comments below.

Ariel Seidman
Director of Product Management
Yahoo! Search

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Comment by Johan
2008-08-13 12:38:42

Gorgeous. Now if I only used Safari… Will there ever be a firefox version?

 
Comment by Debajyoti
2008-08-13 22:47:21

when we will get firefox version??????

 
Comment by steve jenings
2008-08-14 22:46:12

Good to have a multi lingual version, well done guys.

 
Comment by MarjoryM
2008-08-19 01:45:58

I was wondering about the results. I noticed that when I type a word, Inquisitor automatically guesses the next word and then fills in some results while Search Assist just offers suggestions. So, if I search for Olympics, I automatically get Olympics 2008 and have to backspace to get just Olympics. How does it guess the next word (or even know I’m planning a two word search)?

 
Comment by Eid SMS
2008-08-22 22:52:02

Thats great service by yahoo. Using this service I have added Eid SMS in dirrent languages using this servive by yahoo and added them to http://www.smsship.com/sms/Eid-sms.html

Thanks Yahoo! this eid SMS collection is only because of you

 
Comment by Diaper Cream
2008-08-29 16:29:13

I have used this and it’s mind blowing :)

 
Comment by German Romance
2008-09-02 01:10:04

Wow, thanks for this Yahoo! I have used this and it is working just great! Highly recommend!

 

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