Yahoo search suggestion: NEW?

[drpepper]

i just used Yahoo again today. and i notice that when you type in your first 2 letter on their search bar, it will automatically give some suggested search/ keywords... is this new or what? what can you say about this new/old feature?

[Trapped]

You are maybe speaking about "suggestions" of keywords and keyphrases that you have already used to perform a search through Yahoo. But thats nothing that has to do with Yahoo search.

[ablaye]

Originally Posted by drpepper

i just used Yahoo again today. and i notice that when you type in your first 2 letter on their search bar, it will automatically give some suggested search/ keywords... is this new or what? what can you say about this new/old feature?

Are you talking about the search bar in the Yahoo toolbar??? The google toolbar search bar also does the same thing.
I believe you can turn off that feature.

[mazter]

Maybe it is not new for someone else but new for me. Thanks for sharing.

[drpepper]

nope.. its a different one.. like when you type in AR... there will be suggested keywords like AREA CODE LOOK UP.. etc that i havent used...

its not on the toolbar, its on the yahoo page itself..on the web search bar..

[0otheoracleo0]

No You are not crazy!
It is new for me as well. It is not from the search history
They are calling it "search Suggestions" I don't have a yahoo toolbar installed so it must be yahoo or another toolbar?


Here is an example of what pulled up when I typed in wess

* smith and wesson
* smith wesson
* wessex water
* dan wesson
* marcus wesson

About Search Suggestions Disable


You can disable it.

[lbalance]

yes, its fairly new.

i typed in my website name the other day and a few 'popular' searches showed up underneth as i was typing it

[Webfu]

Eventually those search fields are going to be reading our minds. Since they already track our navigation, searches, trends, bookmarks and emails. Whats next?

[tms12]

yahoo had this feature a long time ago , what i can think of is 4/5 yrs ago. they just brought it back again. I think yahoo is pushing hard either on advertising or on targeted marketing. But hey i disabled it the very first moment

[lbalance]

maybe the technology back then bogged down the servers or something. they probably have a more streamlined way of doing it now, AJAX perhaps.

[seo ranter]

Its new to Yahoo but Google has been doing it for a while now...

[drpepper]

i didnt know google have this... and yeah, you can disable..

i like it when i type "MOVE" my website is also on the list.. moveinthecity