By Thilak July 13, 2007

Yahoo! Adds Search Suggestions

Yahoo Search has added suggest feature which tries to auto-complete queries based upon what you type. It not only helps you cut down your search time by limiting the number of words you need to type in the search box, but it also comes handy if you excessively misspell words. Previously, this feature was exclusively available on Yahoo Toolbar.

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This feature is quiet similar to Google Suggest, which never really came out of Google Labs. Unlike Google’s suggest feature, Yahoo doesn’t show number of results returned for each related query.

If you find this suggest feature obtrusive, you can turn if off by clicking the “disable” link in the bottom right of the drop down menu.

Surprisingly, this suggest feature doesn’t seem to be active on their exclusive search page. Google Blogoscoped has put up a nice comparison between Google and Yahoo!’s suggest feature.

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Discussion

Comments for “Yahoo! Adds Search Suggestions”

  • That's a fairly cool feature, this seems like Yahoo progressing now that Jerry Yang's back at the helm.
  • Yes, google does waste quite a lot of manpower, and skilled and expensive at that!

    but hey, some of their best, like gmail have come from that free time, so maybe it is worth for them.
  • Kay
    That's quite irritating to me...
  • TechZilo: Your comment makes me think that Google is simply wasting human work hours.
  • Yes, I have seen it in google labs around a year ago, but they did not implemented it. Probably they must have a reason of not implementing it.
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