Thursday, July 12, 2007

Yahoo Suggest

Yahoo has launched a homepage feature called “search suggest”. This is similar to the Google Suggest service (a labs product that also made its way to the Chinese Google homepage), and shows you an auto-completion box as you type your search query.

The following table compares some suggestions returned by Yahoo and Google (note Yahoo’s suggestions always take longer to load, but this delay may be on purpose; also note that Yahoo often returns the query you’ve already type as redundant suggestion):

You type...	Google suggests	Yahoo suggests
“borat”	borat quotes, borat movie, borat the movie, borat lawsuit, ...	borat, borat movie, borat full movie download free, borat trailer, ...
“paris”	paris hilton, paris hilton jail, paris hilton in jail, paris hilton news, ...	paris hilton, paris je t’aime, paris, paris je t’aime official site, britney spears paris hilton
“peter weir”	peter weir films, peter weir witness, peter weir filmography, peter weir movies, peter weireter ...	witness peter weir, peter weir films, witness by peter weir, peter weireter
“htaccess redirect”	htaccess redirects, htaccess redirects 301, htaccess redirection, htaccess redirect www ...	htaccess redirect, htaccess redirects, htaccess redirection, apache htaccess redirect
“how do i”	how do i breathe lyrics, how do i breathe, how do i breath lyrics, how do i love thee, ...	how do i breathe lyrics, mario how do i breathe lyrics, how do i test my webcam, how do i close my account ...

[Thanks Niraj Sanghvi!]

Yahoo Suggest by Philipp Lenssen | Comments (2+4)

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