Yahoo Search
Yahoo Inc. launched a new internet search technology on Tuesday. The new Yahoo Search introduces features like 'universal search', which automatically includes different content types in search results.
The service provides an attractive drop-down box called search assist that appears as users type, offering spelling fixes and search suggestions based on what's being typed. For example, start typing "Britney," and Yahoo will suggest Britney Spears news, song titles, videos, and performances.
Yahoo hopes the new interface will attract more Internet users and slow down Google's ever-widening lead in the US search market. In August, Google's share of the US Internet search market jumped by more than 30 percent year-over-year to 53.6 percent. On the other hand, Yahoo had a 20 percent share. Microsoft is in third place with about 11 percent.
The service provides an attractive drop-down box called search assist that appears as users type, offering spelling fixes and search suggestions based on what's being typed. For example, start typing "Britney," and Yahoo will suggest Britney Spears news, song titles, videos, and performances.
Yahoo hopes the new interface will attract more Internet users and slow down Google's ever-widening lead in the US search market. In August, Google's share of the US Internet search market jumped by more than 30 percent year-over-year to 53.6 percent. On the other hand, Yahoo had a 20 percent share. Microsoft is in third place with about 11 percent.
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