Yahoo Adds Search Suggest To Main Site

window.document.getElementById(‘post-3845’).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Yahoo has brought a search suggest feature, which suggests completed searches as you type, to its search engine. Like Ask.com and unlike Google Suggest (which is a seperate site), Yahoo’s runs on its main search site and on Yahoo.com, making it a mainstream features users are likely to take advantage of.
Yahoo’s suggest feature differs from Google’s in several ways, besides the fact that Yahoo’s is for prime time and Google’s is not. Yahoo doesn’t offer suggestions for queries less than three letters (so does Ask, but Google goes from the first letter). Yahoo lets you click to disable the suggestions if you don’t like them (which Google understandably doesn’t offer, since it isn’t used on the main site), as does Ask. Yahoo doesn’t show the number of search results for each potential search. Yahoo offers five suggestions, compared with Google’s ten and […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg