It still sucks! Yahoo! has added some new features to its search, which you can learn all about here on TechCrunch, thinking these additional features are enough to compete with Google. ‘Fraid not. A drop down menu with all this AJAX crap going on is supposed to help you find what you’re looking for quicker. Not surprisingly, it doesn’t.
Then I searched for Eddie Van Halen and I was a changed man. Everything related to the guitarist was right there in that stupid little AJAX window. Damn you Yahoo! for pulling through with a decent search! I want to use Google but your search is really good too! Now I’m drawn. Damn. I must say though, the word “asscrack” yielded less than desirable results.
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I think this feature enhancement is awesome! Love the video playback in page and the suggestions as well as shortcuts for other topics. Ask and Yahoo! have really been heating up their search features as well as making visual user interfaces a compelling part of search. Google seems to be losing is hold on its flagship product while it focuses on diversification in other products (docs, earth, youtube, etc). I’m giving Yahoo! a try for the next month and see if there really is any compelling reason to return to using Google.
I’m loving the new tweaks, but I’m not sure it’s enough. Just wrote a post analyzing the search landscape, and what we can expect from the next generation of search tools. Would love to hear comments.