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July 20, 2007

Yahoo Search Engine Adds Suggestions

An increased amount of people are noticing that Yahoo has added search suggestions after users type more than two letters in the search field on Yahoo.com. This was first reported by Search Engine Land but was discovered recently by DigitalPoint Forums members.

Yahoo Search Suggestions
(Ironic, isn't it?)

The feature, according to many, is called "Search Suggestions." In fact, according to Barry's report on Search Engine Land, you can disable it if you don't like it, which some DigitalPoint Forums members have done.

Forum discussion continues at DigitalPoint Forums.



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posted Tamar Weinberg in Yahoo! Search Engine at July 20, 2007 10:02 AM Comments (7)

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If you don't like the suggestion feature you can also use http://search.yahoo.com (which has yet to implement it).

 

Posted by Derick at July 20, 2007 11:27

The Suggestions are annoying. If this is how they want to catch up with Google I feel sorry for them.

 

Posted by Vlad at July 20, 2007 12:26

I find the suggestion feature very useful, especially when I'm not exactly sure of the precise phrase I'm looking for. Often times if I start to type in part of it, the exact phrase that I want is shown. Highly useful IMO.

 

Posted by Brian at July 20, 2007 22:34

I have a suggestion, if it does to much, it makes me feel like i'm losing control. I don't like the big brother is watching scenario.

 

Posted by W.Medina at July 23, 2007 17:17

I am glad that Yahoo is now offering a much more open and interlinking search system. I am also gald that they are providing Google video links.
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Posted by Stan at July 23, 2007 18:17

But I really like it. Atleast users can have keyword suggestions by it.

 

Posted by Amit Verma at July 24, 2007 01:31

I want a search engine but I do NOT want a long list of suggestions. I don't want to have to keep turning it off either - I am now at a loss as to what service to use - Google and now it seems yahoo have lost the plot

 

Posted by Pete at April 8, 2009 13:44

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