Yahoo Search Direct Deliver Results as You Type

Yahoo is rolling out a new feature to its search engine called Search Direct.

Basically, Yahoo Search Direct works in a way in which a user gets the results by displaying it before a particular query is completed. Sounds familiar? Well, it’s actually similar to Google Instant in which it predicts search results based on what the person types and have the results presented to the user, dynamically.

Yahoo Search Direct

But unlike Google Instant which delivers a website-centered search results, Yahoo Search Direct cover result categories including those from the top trending searches, movies, TV, weather, local, travel, stocks, and shopping. By default, the moment you click on the search box, you’ll be presented with the trending searches; and hovering on the list of trending searches, you’ll get the aggregated relevant results. Type the first character of your query, and there you will see Search Direct in action.



Interested? You can try it here, and of course – do let us know what you think about it.

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Google Says Bing is Copying its Search Results

There’s a developing story here, folks. The search giant, Google, says on its official blog that its rival search engine owned by Microsoft is copying its search results on queries.



Bing, which also powers Facebook search as well as Yahoo! search, is allegedly using Google web search results to improve its own search ranking for various queries.

Google claims not into prejudice after they conducted an experiment that shows and proves their suspicions on the “silly” activity to be stronger. One of which is the creation of “synthetic queries” that returns no results at all. Google manipulated the results of those “synthetic queries” in which they inserted unique webpage for each query that has nothing to do with it; in other words, completely irrelevant result for a particular query. Google defines “synthetic queries” as something you can’t expect a user will search for it.

Surprisingly, if you search for the said keywords using Bing, the same webpages will appear on search results. Interesting!

Microsoft is denying the allegation saying that the software juggernaut is not copying Google’s result. However, Google insist that Bing could possibly been using other Microsoft applications that will allow it to acquire data as to what people search for on Google and which of the results the users click. An example of this application is Internet Explorer 8, which can send data to Microsoft via its Suggested Sites feature; or the Bing Toolbar which can send data via Microsoft’s Customer Experience Improvement Program. You can read more about this story at the official Google Blog.

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Google Zeitgeist Year in Review Video, See How the World Searched in 2010

We are still 21 days more to go before 2010 ends, but Google already posted a video highlighting this year’s Zeitgeist. Zeitgeist refers to “the spirit of the times”, which is basically used by Google in publishing an aggregated millions of search queries every year since 2001.

And with Zeitgeist 2010, the search giant made the very first video showcasing the review of how users around the world searched this year. Check out the video below.





If you’ve been an avid user of Google, I’m sure there’s nothing you’ve missed from what have been featured on the video. Or else, you would be searching about it again, and again, and again.



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