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Yahoo's SearchMash Copycat

Haochi [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, April 4, 2007
17 years ago2,811 views

http://au.alpha.yahoo.com/search/web?p=haochi#u,0f1,-1,2c1,3c1,4cb1,5c1,6cb1,7cb1

It too has Wikipedia and YouTube (video).

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Yahoo's site is better in some perspectives (pagination, permalinks), but I don't understand why it's a good idea to add sections for YouTube, Flickr and not for other sites. Maybe users should define their own restrictions and put them in the sidebar (Co-op anyone?).

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Update: Yahoo actually does that if you click on "Customize this page". Nice.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Some big problems with that (cold-looking) site... for example, if you expand and collapse sections of the right-hand boxes, this will be added to the browser search history... and clicking your back button will now "undo" your expand & collapse history instead of going back to the previous search.

Ben Allen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

The page feels kind of heavy, too. When expanding the tools, it's not as instant as SearchMash is.

Customization is awesome, though.

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

<<The web is so large
Almost boundless in its scope
Emphasis: "Almost">>

When you get no results.

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

[Moved from "Alpha Beta Search Engine" – Tony]

From the Yahoo!7 team in Australia:

http://au.alpha.yahoo.com/

<< Featuring results from Yahoo! Search, Flickr, Answers, and News, the Alpha Beta uses several YUI libraries to do its magic, with a little help from some OpenSearch-friendly sites, such as Wikipedia and YouTube. >>

Smells a bit like http://SearchMash.com to me, especially the way it presents its extra search results on the right hand side of the SERP.

Via: http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2007/04/seen_the_new_au.html

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

[Moved from "Alpha Beta Search Engine" – Tony]

too slow.. :/

i'm sticking with Google :P

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

[Moved from "Alpha Beta Search Engine" – Tony]

previously dicussed.

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Oops, thanks James!

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