Yahoo! Rolls Out Redesign for Search Results Pages
- Posted September 15th, 2011 at 12:21 pm by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: Multimedia Search, News/Announcements, Search
At Yahoo!, we’re always looking for ways to make the Yahoo! Search experience even more organized and streamlined while serving the most relevant content. We have been working to unify the search experiences across web, multimedia, and vertical search results pages with a design that is clean and intuitive. Today, we are pleased to bring the latest design changes to life across various search results pages!
The following changes are available now on the Web, Images, Video, News, Blogs, Finance and Sports search results pages:
- Clean and Simple – A cleaner and simplistic look and feel that helps you find what is most important to you and to enable you to take action faster.
- Automatic Tabs – Easily accessible tabs will automatically appear right below the Search box to give you the specialized content you may be looking for on our other vertical search results pages. The tabs that may appear, based on the search results content, are Web, Images, Video, News, Blogs, Finance and Sports.
- Left Filters – Filters on the left side of the results will appear, for sorting results by time and related searches.
The query-aware tabs make it easier for you to dive into a specific vertical search experience, such as the Sports search results page example below. The related athletes filter on the left, combined with sports videos results on the right, also enhance this results page.
The improved News search results page will also include filters on the left for news sources, as well as news videos to the right of the search results.
Since last month’s Image Search update, we have made the above changes to the Image search results page, plus we have added:
- A larger pool of Facebook images to also include public profiles and fan pages
- A richer “Latest” pictures experience from across even more Yahoo! content
- Better recommendations at the end of galleries
Below is an example of the Image search results page for the “President Obama” query, which brings you the latest, most relevant pictures to the top, and indicates how long ago each image was published.
For the same query, you can also click on “Facebook” on the left rail to get the most popular public Facebook albums on President Obama.
If you type in “sunset,” amazing galleries from Yahoo! News, Flickr and omg! surface. You’ll also see an end-of-gallery page with more recommendations for continued searching.
On the Video search results page, we also feature videos from across various Yahoo! Properties, in addition to the top web videos.
The new design you see today incorporates feedback from users like you. We are continuously making new improvements and looking for even more ways to make Yahoo! Search better for you. Keep checking back in on the Search blog, as more changes are planned for the coming weeks.
Please check out the changes by doing a few searches on search.yahoo.com, and let us know what you think of the new search results pages.
– Paul Ko, Girish Ananthakrishnan and Caroline Tsay from the Yahoo! Search team
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Nice update and very clean looking results. I like the sports results that bring in the local weather. That data is so important for those that are looking to set their fantasy teams or want to know what the game will be like that day.
In IE there seems to be a weird line under the logo and above the left rail – I don’t see it on Chrome, but it is on your screenshots. Kinda looks like a smudge or some image that failed to load.
Personally the query aware vertical choice feels too limited – For example, I can’t find the app search you recently launched. If it’s whitelist triggered it’s too limited. If i manually look for it under the more drop down, i’m still out of luck as the options are pretty limited, the front page seems to show them all and let me choose.
Why don’t you go back to having your own SERPS and forget about BING!? Bing spider and search results are the WORST, I used to use yahoo as an option to google but since you are using Bing I can’t find anything decent in your results, apart that it is taking forever for Bing to index all new sites!
Y!h not Google. Very charming indeed. Please keep us updated. Tks
Yahoo has a much more lively search than other search engines. Improvements will help push Yahoo further up as one of the Leaders.
Bing does not seem to bring up quality searches like google cant they intergrate searches with google some how.
Can bing bring up google searches as well.
Nice Update
Thanks keep it up
yahoo can search anything i want
Thanks Yahoo for the article. Looks really cool by the way. Keep up the improvements yahoo and keep updating me with this really cool insight. Thanks again and I look forward to more great enhancements.
Great! and Thank Yahoo for informations. I like a very clean looking results.
Love the new look!!
Pretty Nice. I think it appears clean.
This looks like a great step forward for Yahoo. I just hope further work is done to improve your search algorithms.
Yahoo! Never seizes to amaze me! Such a wonderful organized site, always making improvement. Great job Yahoo!
Just when i thought yahoo couldn’t get any better. Very modern resign. Up-to-date with this day and age.