Live Now: Yahoo! World Cup Schedule Shortcuts
- Posted June 7th, 2010 at 7:00 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: Search, Search Tips
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, [...]
Search Suggestion Enhancements for Yahoo! Taiwan and Yahoo! Hong Kong
- Posted May 14th, 2010 at 6:00 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: Search, Search Tips
We’ve enhanced search suggestion in Web search for Yahoo! Taiwan (Yahoo! Kimo) and Yahoo! Hong Kong. This feature helps users easily enter queries in traditional Chinese in the search box using Changjie and Cantonese Pinyin, which are language input systems used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, respectively. Instead of having to switch the language input [...]
Gooooooal! Get World Cup 2010 Coverage on Yahoo! Search
- Posted May 11th, 2010 at 1:00 pm by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: Search, Search Tips, Toolbar
Are you ready for soccer fever? In a few weeks, just about the whole world will be wrapped up in one of the biggest global sports event: the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa. Many of the games happen during the week when you might be stuck at work or school, but don’t fret: [...]
Countdown to the Oscars with Yahoo! Search
- Posted March 3rd, 2010 at 10:30 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: Multimedia Search, Search, Search Tips
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 [...]
Search Innovation on Display at Alt Search Engines Conference
- Posted April 2nd, 2009 at 7:01 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: BOSS, Search, Search Tips
The Yahoo! Search BOSS team attended the Alt Search Engines conference in San Francisco earlier this week, and we came away from the conference even more convinced that there’s still a lot of room for innovation in search. We saw dozens of demos of search engines in various stages of development, many of which use [...]
Internet Explorer 8 with Instant Visual Search Suggestions from Yahoo!
- Posted March 19th, 2009 at 12:00 pm by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: Search, Search Tips
Today, we are introducing instant visual results under the search box for the Yahoo! optimized version of the new Internet Explorer 8. Instant visual results are rolling out in three categories: Weather, Movie Reviews and Showtimes, and Stock Quotes. When you type a query from any of these three categories in Internet Explorer 8, instant [...]
Get Ready for the Oscars with Yahoo! Image Search
- Posted February 20th, 2009 at 12:17 pm by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: Multimedia Search, Search, Search Tips
The Oscars are one of our favorite times of year at Yahoo! Image Search. Our fascination with movies, celebrities, and red carpet fashion actually can be passed off as work! For the 81st Academy Awards, we are rolling out a new image carousel in Yahoo! Image Search so you can find some of the newest, [...]
Fighting Duplication: Adding more arrows to your quiver
- Posted February 12th, 2009 at 12:29 pm by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: Search, Search Tips
Avoiding duplicates in the search engine index has consistently been a key concern we’ve heard from webmasters and site owners. Over the last few years, we have made significant strides in finding duplicates in our crawler and index algorithmically and provided webmasters with better tools for controlling these. Today we are announcing our support for [...]
Top Time-Saving Yahoo! Search Tips
- Posted October 25th, 2007 at 11:00 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: Search Tips
Yahoo! Shortcuts: Illumination @ the Point of Inspiration
- Posted June 20th, 2007 at 9:44 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: Search Tips