Yahoo’s Time Saving Shortcuts
At first I thought that these time saving search shortcuts from Yahoo were pretty cool, but now I would just chalk them up to a step in the right direction.
See, one of the problems that John Battelle discusses in his book The Search (which, by the way, is an awesome Christmas gift for any search junkie) is the ability for search engines to decide your intention when performing a search without asking a bunch of annoying questions following your search.
The idea of “the semantic search engine” is an engine that will have enough information about you and each page on the internet to determine when you search for “Paris Hilton” whether you are interested in going to Paris, France and staying in a nice hotel or you are looking for the rich hotel heiress. These shortcuts have the ability to address some of these problems on the front end (when you actually perform the search), but are pretty inconvenient and, in all honesty, will probably never catch on with anything but a small group of search enthusiasts.
I do admire Yahoo for taking some initiative in trying new things, though. The more competition they pose to Google’s search the more we can expect both services to improve.
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