Yahoo! Search Blog

We are introducing two new, important features today on Yahoo! Image search to help users get the best out of searching for photos online: social sharing and continuous scrolling. Yahoo! Image Search now provides the ability to share any image through Facebook and Twitter. By clicking on the image from the search results page, users [...]

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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 [...]

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Today, we are unveiling a brand new design for the Yahoo! Image Search results page – one that provides you with a completely immersive and engaging image browsing experience.  The new search results page sports a neatly tiled look, with each image equally sized, then becoming larger when you hover over one.  In addition to [...]

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People love to check out multimedia search on Yahoo!, and we love helping them find what they’re looking for, whether through web, image, or video search. One of the most interesting challenges in multimedia search is how to go beyond plain text and match queries to images so that users can more easily find the [...]

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At Yahoo! Search, we’re always trying to learn more about what people are looking for and what they might want that they’re not even thinking to look for yet. We take this idea a step further – we’re always working on how we can do better at delighting and entertaining searchers with products built around [...]

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Following up on our announcement of new Yahoo! Search enhancements, I’m excited to tell you more about how you can use our new Yahoo! Image Search. As we mentioned, we now feature slideshows as a part of Yahoo! Image Search results with a cool “theater mode” experience for you to sit back and enjoy images. [...]

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Wondering what kinds of pictures and videos people are checking out right now? We’ve redesigned the Yahoo! Image and Video search home pages for a visual snapshot of the most popular trending topics that people are looking for in Yahoo! Search. With both video and image search, we are featuring up to five pages of [...]

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At Yahoo! Search, we pay attention to what’s popular on the Web and what matters most to you. We know that celebrities rank near the top of the buzziest searches on Yahoo!, so this is one area in search that we’ve been working on to make even better. As we’ve already started to do with [...]

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Continuing our celebration of the Academy Awards, we are rolling out a series of features that make it easier for you to follow coverage of the Oscars on Yahoo! Search. On Yahoo! Image Search, just search for “Oscars 2010” and you’ll see our Oscars image carousel, with the latest image search results of the nominees [...]

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We know that many of you come to Yahoo! Video search to find entertainment-related information. Our video search traffic also shows us that many of those queries have an exploratory intent, including digging for great work from your favorite music artists. Starting today, you can easily dive into albums and songs by your favorite music [...]

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