The Yahoo! Light Bulb: Similar Searches

Jul 20, 2006 - 7:17 am 0 by

A WebmasterWorld thread asks what is that light bulb symbolize on the Yahoo! search results page? You know if comes up for some searches and says "Also try:" keyword phrase here...

yahoo-light-bulb-try.gif

Well, besides for it being obviously some sort of search suggestion, I decided to pull up the Yahoo! Search help documentation, which you can find here and you will see it says;

Also Try: When other people have done searches similar to yours, we'll list these queries under the search box. One of these might help you narrow your results. Click on a link to try one of these searches.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

 

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