Recent Comment
Spotlight
- Reader Michael Megalli writes: It is difficult to engage in genuine conversations with the marketplace when you can't change the reality of how a company does business, what it sells, how it works with partners, etc. [go]
Recent Comments
- Ron Hager: " When you quote that temperature, you are ..." [go]
- nmw: " It's time to wake up and smell the, um,. ..." [go]
- Steve Rhodes: " The only google ads I'd seen (beyond sp ..." [go]
- Melissa: " Absolutely agreed. Make search a game, ..." [go]
- http://charlieokeefe.blogspot.com: " I just wrote a short piece (about two re ..." [go]
- John Battelle: " Wow guys, thanks for piling on. I promis ..." [go]
- John Battelle: " Thanks Narendra, I agree. ..." [go]
- SpencerG: " These guys are getting smarter about the ..." [go]
- SC: " They are at it again, after 3 years of t ..." [go]
- NoName: " I have read through this several times a ..." [go]
- Narendra: " Om explains why you should have seen it ..." [go]
- tracy: " My company just received the phone call ..." [go]
- Phil: " John, I read your blog through my reader ..." [go]
- Tom Nocera: " It is a fair price - at least for the ti ..." [go]
- nmw: " >> not engaged sites I am still ..." [go]
- Sean: " I think you need to add a little more va ..." [go]
PERFECT FOR THAT PERSON WITH EVERYTHING
Order 'The Search'
Yup, it makes the perfect gift for that officemate or colleague who you thought had everything....including you! If you order here, I promise to sign it, assuming we can figure out the shipping...
You can also buy the audio version here.
Check my book page for more info.
Blogger's Rights
Top Posts
- The Database of Intentions (or how this all got started)
- From Pull to Point(or the first post where I riff on the "Point-To Economy")
- Google As Builder (or the point at which Google stopped being simply a search engine)
- On Google v. Yahoo
- TV and Search Merge
- On Sell Side Advertising
- Battelle Gets Searchstreams
- Search and Immortality
- Toward the Endemic (on endemic advertising)
More coming soon...
Active Topics
- 35 comments: WTF??!!! (04.17)
- 26 comments: Twitter. Oh God. (04.30)
- 16 comments: The Future of Search Series (05.08)
- 16 comments: The Music In Magazines (05.07)
- 13 comments: The Best Minds of the Web... (05.05)
Monthly Archives
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- February 2006
- January 2006
- December 2005
- November 2005
- October 2005
- September 2005
- August 2005
- July 2005
- June 2005
- May 2005
- April 2005
- March 2005
- February 2005
- January 2005
- December 2004
- November 2004
- October 2004
- September 2004
- August 2004
- July 2004
- June 2004
- May 2004
- April 2004
- March 2004
- February 2004
- January 2004
- December 2003
- November 2003
- October 2003
About John Battelle
Searchblog Newsletter
Enter email to subscribe to Searchblog's newsletter:
Calendar
| Su | Mo | Tu | We | Th | Fr | Sa |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
Syndicate
Powered by
September 14, 2005 9:00 PM
Yahoo Launches "Instant Search"
This is an evolution of Yahoo's "search shortcuts" idea - will be available (you have to install it) from next.yahoo.com in a manner of minutes (I am told). From the release:
Today Yahoo! launches Instant Search, an early beta feature that makes the search process faster by providing a way for users to get instant answers. As users type, Instant Search immediately displays the most relevant result for the most popular queries directly beneath the search box. In many cases instant facts and answers are provided in the form of Yahoo! Search Shortcut results and, when a shortcut is not available for a query, Instant Search supplies the top Yahoo! Search web result for the most common searches. Users can immediately access answers by clicking a ‘CTRL Enter’ hotkey once results are displayed.
My favorite line in the release (full text below):
Why feel lucky when you can be right?
Meeeeyowww, the claws are out....
Yahoo! Instant Search beta Now Available
Today Yahoo! launches Instant Search, an early beta feature that makes the search process faster by providing a way for users to get instant answers. As users type, Instant Search immediately displays the most relevant result for the most popular queries directly beneath the search box. In many cases instant facts and answers are provided in the form of Yahoo! Search Shortcut results and, when a shortcut is not available for a query, Instant Search supplies the top Yahoo! Search web result for the most common searches. Users can immediately access answers by clicking a ‘CTRL Enter’ hotkey once results are displayed.
If a search for a popular web address is conducted, users immediately receive a link that matches what was typed and when a shortcut, search result, or URL is not available for a particular query, the Search the Web button is always at hand. With Instant Search, select misspellings are automatically detected and corrections are displayed right below the search box.
Users can add Instant Search to their http://search.yahoo.com page, a simple search interface that can be customized with multiple features and products like My Web, Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! News, to speed up common searches and further establish Yahoo! Search as the starting point to the Internet.
Why feel lucky when you can be right? Instant Search, available on http://next.yahoo.com, adds a bit of fun to web search, try the following examples or try your own searches:
• Boston Weather
• San Francisco Coffee Shops
• NFL
• 22 5th Ave New York New York
• Britny Spears (misspelled on purpose)
Instant Search will improve and expand over time, but we wanted to show this cool, innovative feature while it is new. Screen shots are included on the second page. Please let me know if you are interested in learning more or if you are interested in speaking to someone from Yahoo!.
- Posted by John Battelle on September 14, 2005 9:00 PM
TrackBack
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Yahoo Launches "Instant Search":
» Yahoo! Instant Search from Référencement Google WebRankInfo
Outre l'intérêt (éventuel... à tester) pour l'internaute, cet outil pourrait bien également intéresser les référenceurs qui pourraient ainsi connaître les requêtes les plus populaires sur Yahoo. Les utilisateurs doivent "ajouter" Instant Search dans... [Read More]
- Tracked on September 15, 2005 11:20 PM
» Бета верÑ?иÑ? Instant Search от Yahoo from Обзор Блогов
КомпаниÑ? Yahoo обьÑ?вила о запуÑ?ке нового Ñ?ервиÑ?а Instant Search.
Суть Ñ?ервиÑ?а заключаетÑ?Ñ? в том, что его пользователь получает первые результаты ... [Read More]
- Tracked on September 16, 2005 6:48 AM
Comments
yeah, what he said.
I tested it. It's mildly useful
They're hampered by a lack of indexing technology, frankly. They return one result at most, and don't even do prefix matches, let alone substrings. If the string doesn't match exactly, it returns nothing, so the user waits, thinking that the XMLHttpRequest isn't done yet.
Bah, I was worried for a minute.
Funny, I got this autoreply from their feedback form. I guess they're working on blog search.
I know this isn't the place but so far Google's blog search has been terrible!
Try searching "Philosophy" in Google's blog search.
Then try searching Philosophy and Blog in the regular search.
By far the second search turns up more sites with active interesting conversations about philosophy. For godsakes MSN's results for Philosophy and Blog far exceed Google's Blog search results for philosophy.
I just don't get it. Maybe Yahoo! will do it right.
Leave a comment