Yahoo! Search Blog

We’re introducing the Yahoo! Search Widget for the Android smart phones today, making it much easier to access web search on the Android phone home screen. The UI is simple and compact to fit the size of your phone screen. Under the covers, we’ve packed in some cool features. You can type the query using [...]

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Soccer fans around the world will be waving their flags today as the World Cup opens in South Africa — and American enthusiasm for the world’s most popular sport is reaching new heights.  Since the beginning of the month, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in searches for terms like World Cup, FIFA World Cup teams [...]

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We at Yahoo! love the search box. In fact, you can find a handy search box at the top of every Yahoo! page – be it Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Sports or omg! – as well as in our handy Yahoo! Toolbar. But nowadays, Search has evolved to mean so much more than one or two [...]

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As we promised last month, we are launching Shortcuts that give you upcoming schedules for a specific team, group or match. Try searching for “worldcup schedule”, “Slovenia vs US schedule”, “brazil soccer” and “group B schedule” and get the schedule you’re looking for right on the Yahoo! Search results page. You can easily access scores, [...]

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Back in April, we introduced a new look for Yahoo! News Search in the U.S. market, featuring news source refiners, time refiners, and rich results to help you find what you’re looking for quickly and seamlessly. We’ve just launched the new Yahoo! News Search page for French, Spanish, German, and Indonesian language users in 11 [...]

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