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August 13, 2008

Inquisitor Gets Smarter, Faster and Multi-Lingual

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.

Inquisitor_Whistler

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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Comments

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

    Posted by: Johan | August 13th, 2008 12:38 pm

  2. when we will get firefox version??????

    Posted by: Debajyoti | August 13th, 2008 10:47 pm

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

    Posted by: steve jenings | August 14th, 2008 10:46 pm

  4. 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)?

    Posted by: MarjoryM | August 19th, 2008 1:45 am

  5. 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

    Posted by: Eid SMS | August 22nd, 2008 10:52 pm

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

    Posted by: Diaper Cream | August 29th, 2008 4:29 pm

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

    Posted by: German Romance | September 2nd, 2008 1:10 am

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