Yahoo launches Alpha search engine

[butterfingers]

Specifically, Alpha generates a dynamic search-results page with modules that can expand or collapse. A search for soul goddess Amy Winehouse, for instance, produced the usual web-search results in the central module, with modules for Flickr, Yahoo Answers, YouTube, News, and Wikipedia alongside it. (Yahoo even relegates sponsored results to its own module--nice). Within any given module, clicking Next reveals the next batch of results without actually jumping to another page.

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/search/yahoo-launches-alpha-search-engine-249845.php



It looks neat and Web 2.0ish...
I like that...

[MeetHere]

I dont see any such look or launch on search.yahoo.com :rolleyes:

[Zerosleep]

I dont see any such look or launch on search.yahoo.com :rolleyes:

http://au.alpha.yahoo.com
here you are :D

great find bro

[butterfingers]

Sorry, forgot to paste the link. : )

But why australia? AU is for australia.

Yahoo Inc. is quietly testing a search engine which users can customize by adding, removing and rearranging components, suggesting that the company may plan to make it easier for users to tailor search sites to reflect their interests.

Yahoo Alpha, which is hosted on an Australian domain, offers a default results page with a list of Web sites on the left hand column and six specialty search result boxes on the right hand column.

The specialty boxes display results from three Yahoo search engines: the Flickr photo service, the Answers question-and-answer service and Yahoo News. It also returns non-Yahoo results from Google Inc.'s YouTube video site and from the encyclopedia Wikipedia. Finally, it has a box for displaying search ads from Yahoo's online ad network.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130432/article.html

[MeetHere]

http://au.alpha.yahoo.com
here you are :D

great find bro

Ahh, thanks for the link..

Looks funny - Alpha - Beta on the site :p

[butterfingers]

Ahh, thanks for the link..

Looks funny - Alpha - Beta on the site :p

Alpha but still in Beta... Hehe.. Funny.. LOL..

[lorylxw]

Will it helpful to its ads?

[natekapi]

Wow. It's so bad. It's almost like it's 1999 again.

[Ganceann]

Wow. It's so bad. It's almost like it's 1999 again.

Well, in some instances it is always better to backtrack and rebuild rather than continue going down the wrong road.

In saying that - would it have been better as Alpha Alpha rather than Alpha Beta :P

It shows Yahoo are at least trying to work more of a search portal than a search engines - and in that sense is not in direct competition with google for the search engine market, but could well be looking to be the #1 search portal as opposed to the #1 search engine.

The only question is on their monetization of it - I would be surprised if they left the sponsors as optional selection - though it should therefore make for more targeted and interested consumers (and therefore higher ROI) - in theory. Although the total revenue raised would likely be smaller than if left to be placed in organic results.

[redwings]

very slugghish.. :confused:

[natekapi]

Look at the results though. They're all spam! Their algorithm is so bad on Alpha. Try ringtones as an example and you'll see what I mean! ;)

[butterfingers]

Look at the results though. They're all spam! Their algorithm is so bad on Alpha. Try ringtones as an example and you'll see what I mean! ;)

I can say the results is similar to Google.

[godmode]

thats a copy of the google's development search engine.

[butterfingers]

thats a copy of the google's development search engine.

Oh, really? I didn't know that.
They have access to Google dev product?

[Claudek]

Can you provide any proof? Did you manage to get a copy of source codes of both engines and verify that? Please validate your comment.

thats a copy of the google's development search engine.

[Claudek]

So you did a search on a keyword most good SEOs already know is full of spam on ALL the major search engines.

Look at the results though. They're all spam! Their algorithm is so bad on Alpha. Try ringtones as an example and you'll see what I mean! ;)

[iskandar]

I think the pages load much faster, especially when you try to go to the next pages. It appears almost instantly.

[drylbc]

looks very clean

[wwwhome]

;) LOL,one of my keywords ranks No1 in alpha search,but ony NO 9 IN Yahoo search.I hope more people use this.;)

[butterfingers]

;) LOL,one of my keywords ranks No1 in alpha search,but ony NO 9 IN Yahoo search.I hope more people use this.;)

Wait for it to get out from BETA. Maybe 2-3 years from now?

[showup]

So there is going to be no search marketing once this new ver is released? Where the ads will be? in another expanding module along with other stuff?

[Le GoogelGuRu]

Ahh, thanks for the link..

Looks funny - Alpha - Beta on the site :pHaha, I noticed that.

From the short testing I've done of it, I definitely prefer the original Yahoo! Search. Nice design, though.

[Omega]

thanks for the link..

[apnagopal]

nice to see daily new features.

[quirkyericia]

sounds cool...it's like taking notes from web2.0 sites

[schmidte]

very slugghish.. :confused:

I'll ditto that!!