Comments on: Yahoo Testing New Search Look?

By: Feinkost

Feinkost — Sun, 06 May 2007 19:16:07 +0000

This is quite astonishing – together with your current blog entry about the talk between Microsoft and Yahoo this builds a quite new view on the scene…

By: Soapster

Soapster — Sun, 06 May 2007 08:22:39 +0000

Assuming Microsoft is going to buy Yahoo as widely speculated, does this mean that Microsoft will become a part owner of Google? Do they have the prize catch in their sights?

By: DavidDalka

DavidDalka — Fri, 04 May 2007 23:33:44 +0000

Actually, official colors are purple and white now as per the business cards.

By: Liam Billington

Liam Billington — Fri, 04 May 2007 13:47:11 +0000

Oh it is in Microsoft blue as to the traditional Yahoo red and yellow. Could this be for the merger ;-P

By: Rob Phillips

Rob Phillips — Fri, 04 May 2007 11:23:49 +0000

With regard to the CSS... they are now including the link rather than the entire css file. Link to the page below:

us.js2.yimg.com/us.js.yimg.com/lib/s2/ysch_newsrp_20070502.css

Please include http://

The file name probably stands for Yahoo search new search results page 2.0 then the date .css ???

By: Rob Phillips

Rob Phillips — Fri, 04 May 2007 08:54:53 +0000

The sponsored results are shown on the right of the screen and at the bottom. Doesnt appear to be any changes to the bottom of the page.

"Also try" still at the top... with Yahoo Answers at the bottom.

Interestingly when i searched Yahoo last night from a different location (still in London) i got the old results page. This morning back in work i get the new design again.

It almost sounds like they are testing the behaviour of the new design in a limited number of areas/datacenters.

By: Elliott C. Bäck

Elliott C. Bäck — Fri, 04 May 2007 01:27:52 +0000

As long as they just have a /single/ CSS file they’re going to have great performance. Same for JS… just have one!

By: Alex Moskalyuk

Alex Moskalyuk — Thu, 03 May 2007 23:07:50 +0000

I am surprised the snippets are given so little space. Wasn't there a study by Microsoft not too long ago about users correlating longer snippets of relevant text with better quality of search results.

Chris - an externally linked CSS is only hit once and then cached, embedded CSS has to be loaded each and every time.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 03 May 2007 21:27:15 +0000

> I imagine they will tidy this up soon...

Externally linked files are one of the biggest hits to page load time. Inline css is the way to go for high performace sites. You won't see that go away.

By: Trogdor

Trogdor — Thu, 03 May 2007 19:00:21 +0000

Sure looks a lot like a live.com search. Based on the graphic above, I like it. Now (thinking in a practical sense) where are the PPC ads? I guess for the chosen query there wouldn’t be, but that’s a part of how it’d look.