After being seen as a repeated failure of a company over the past couple years, Yahoo may just yet redeem itself with its latest search engine update, Search Direct. While this reminds most Google users of one of the latest and biggest Google updates, Google Instant, with its real-time results as you type, Search Direct is less about helping you find the most relevant links for your search query and much more about giving you the appropriate answer, right then and there, to what you are searching for, because the fact is, we all search to ultimately find an answer, information about the thing we're searching for. This is actually quite an exciting update to Yahoo's search index, which I first heard about after Anthony Ha reported it on VentureBeat.
This advancement in the usability of search engines is incredible. It was first thought that the Google Instant update was exciting because it eliminated the use of having to hit the search button to perform your search query. But now, you don't even need to click the first link in the results page to get the answers you want to the most common of queries, easily finding out things like the local weather forecast, stock performance, even where to find a local theatre playing the films you want.
More...
0 comments
Post a Comment