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Yahoo! Begins Testing with Microsoft
We’ve started testing organic (also referred to as algorithmic) and paid search listings from Microsoft for up to 25 percent of Yahoo! Search traffic in the U.S.  The primary change for these tests is that the listings are coming from Microsoft. However, the overall page should look the same as the Yahoo! Search you’re used [...]

Yahoo! Answers: Streamlining Search
Coming off the heels of the largest-ever Q&A with David Beckham on Yahoo!, Yahoo! Answers has even more exciting news. This week, the Yahoo! Answers team made a slew of improvements that streamline search to find the information you want on the world’s most popular question-and-answer site. First up, we have three new sorting options near [...]

Wrapping up World Cup Coverage with Yahoo! Search
Soccer lovers followed coverage of the 2010 World Cup with Yahoo! Search tools and shortcuts, and today we bring you some of the tournament’s top search trends on Yahoo!. Throughout the first week of play, U.S. fans were eager to know more about the World Cup opening ceremonies, the World Cup schedule and World Cup brackets. [...]

Get Timely Suggestions on Yahoo! Search
We’ve recently enhanced Yahoo! Search Assist to provide near real-time suggestions as you type your query. You probably already use Yahoo! Search Assist to conduct your searches quickly, but now you can get even fresher suggestions, which will be especially useful when there are recent top news or events related to your search topic. [...]

Yahoo! Search Widget for Your Android Phone
We’re introducing the Yahoo! Search Widget for the Android smart phones today, making it much easier to access web search on the Android phone home screen. The UI is simple and compact to fit the size of your phone screen. Under the covers, we’ve packed in some cool features. You can type the query using the touch [...]

Kicking Off the World Cup Coverage with Yahoo! Search
Soccer fans around the world will be waving their flags today as the World Cup opens in South Africa — and American enthusiasm for the world’s most popular sport is reaching new heights.  Since the beginning of the month, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in searches for terms like World Cup, FIFA World Cup teams [...]

Beyond the Search Box
We at Yahoo! love the search box. In fact, you can find a handy search box at the top of every Yahoo! page – be it Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Sports or omg! – as well as in our handy Yahoo! Toolbar. But nowadays, Search has evolved to mean so much more than one or two [...]

Live Now: Yahoo! World Cup Schedule Shortcuts
As we promised last month, we are launching Shortcuts that give you upcoming schedules for a specific team, group or match. Try searching for “worldcup schedule”, “Slovenia vs US schedule”, “brazil soccer” and “group B schedule” and get the schedule you’re looking for right on the Yahoo! Search results page. You can easily access scores, photo [...]

New Look for Yahoo! News Search for Global Markets
Back in April, we introduced a new look for Yahoo! News Search in the U.S. market, featuring news source refiners, time refiners, and rich results to help you find what you’re looking for quickly and seamlessly. We’ve just launched the new Yahoo! News Search page for French, Spanish, German, and Indonesian language users in 11 international [...]

Find Images and Videos Buzzing in Yahoo! Search
Wondering what kinds of pictures and videos people are checking out right now? We’ve redesigned the Yahoo! Image and Video search home pages for a visual snapshot of the most popular trending topics that people are looking for in Yahoo! Search. With both video and image search, we are featuring up to five pages of topics [...]

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