Yahoo! Search Serves Suggestions Closer to You
- Posted September 2nd, 2010 at 7:00 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: Search, Search Tips
We’re making Search more intuitive by taking user context and applying it to the search experience. Today we are introducing an enhanced Yahoo! Search Assist, providing suggestions geographically closer to you as you type your query.
Sitting here in our Yahoo! headquarters at Sunnyvale, if I type “santa” from Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, I get “santa clara county” as the first suggestion.
If I type the same query from my friend’s place in Santa Barbara, I get “santa barbara” as the first suggestion.
Here’s another example that commuters in the New York and Pittsburgh metropolitan areas will appreciate: As I type “port au” from the New York area, I get “port authority bus terminal” and suggestions prioritized for New York’s Port Authority.
But if I’m in the Pittsburgh area, I’ll see more locally relevant suggestions like “pittsburgh port authority” and “port authority of allegheny county.”
Yahoo! Search Assist helps you find what you need with fewer keystrokes by taking into account the location from which you’re searching.
Give this new feature a try and let us know what you think about geo-sensitive search suggestions in the comments section below.
Vivian Lin Dufour
Product Manager, Yahoo! Search
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Thats a good update from yahoo that it will show suggested keyword as any user start typing, and it can save also time. But have a confusion- what if I don’t want to search for any local news but yahoo will always show local suggestion… Will it give to change search preference option.. That will be a good addition.
Thanks
I have used Yahoo since I have started using the net and I still will not change to. All the improvements have been a blessing. Thanks to all who are at Yahoo!
I have been using yahoo since I started using internet. This is a good addition by yahoo.
Yes I too would love to see an option in preferences to turn it off.
It should have been launched years ago. Anyways, its better late than never. Good job!!! such kind of intelligence was much needed and I think there are many more to come…
was trying it for in.yahoo search and the “local” info was at country level and cities seemed to be random in local context (distance-wise).
That is brilliant. It gives normal users some good keyword ideas for search too.
Like Joel said. It is a great tool to add some more value to keyword research. Any plans on going Instant as well?
I think it’s nice. The downside is that you still need to click that unfold button. Why wouldn’t you make it default?