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November 22, 2006

Enhanced Answers Integration in Yahoo! Search Results

As you may have seen, we have been integrating knowledge from the Yahoo! Answers community into search to enhance your search experience. We recently made some changes to the way these answers are presented:

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As you can see, the new section features an excerpt of the best answers to questions that are relevant to your search. The excerpt gives you a more detailed preview of the content from the Answers community before you click through. In this example for "best hybrid cars" you actually get a whole lot of information - one best answer cites the breadth of hybrids to choose from, another user mentions he's heard good things about the Prius, and another discusses the potentially lower maintenance of hybrids.

So if you're looking for personal experiences with tennis camps, finding places off the beaten path, or researching the best hybrid car, you'll now have an extra option on Yahoo! Search (scroll down the results to see them).

Try it and let us know what you think - your feedback is essential and very appreciated.

Happy Thanksgiving! (Don?t forget the pumpkin pie!)

Ya-Bing Chu
Product Manager, Yahoo! Search

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Comments

This is a good idea and adds an option to the SERPs - presumably.


If searchers made it all the way to the bottom of the first page - this would potentially be more helpful than going to the results on page two.


also, it was good to put the answers on the bottom after the SERPs

Posted by: http://search-engines-web.com/ | November 22, 2006 07:35 PM

I dont think these enhanced answer links are a good idea at all. First of all it takes away from the seo efforts of webmasters who have finally been able to earn their way to the top of the yahoo search engine. Presumably if a site makes it to the top 10 or twenty search resutls, its probably because they provide the type of information a visitor is looking for. I also find that many of your enhanced links dont have very good OR accurate info. I have been a Yahoo fan for years and I HOPE that you decide to remove this enhanced answers bit - it's really NOT necessary and it just clutters that page even more. How much more excuse the expression, crap do you want to add?

Posted by: Michael Brickell | November 24, 2006 08:46 PM

I think that this takes away from the natural results. If I wanted answers, then I would go to Yahoo! Answers.

Posted by: Stephen Pitts | November 25, 2006 04:11 PM

Hi I think that your ysearchblog is great however I recently 301 redirected my website www.bargainfindsonebay.com to www.camera-reviews.net (over a month now) and all my search rankings were lost and all my pages gone from the index and camera-reviews.net still doesn't show any more pages than the homepage how can I get Yahoo? to reindex the site camera-reviews so I get all my terms back?

Posted by: Kevin | November 25, 2006 10:27 PM

Nice work, Ya-Bing. Looks good!

Posted by: Steve | November 27, 2006 03:30 PM

Great idea, I noticed this when doing searches on various terms. I've shared this with folks on my blog and have received positive emails.

Cez

Posted by: Cezanne | November 28, 2006 05:59 AM

Not a blog reader,persay,but got here and love the idea. Couldn't stop reading all the articles and, yes, got distracted from what I was doing. I think this is the icing on the cake for searches that can be boring, mundane, standard and predictable. Actually been waiting for something like this to come around. Have to add it to My Yahoo.

Posted by: chuck | December 12, 2006 05:20 PM