D-Bone
Apr 5th '07, 10:14 AM
Source: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/04/05/yahoo-cleans-things-up-with-the-alpha-search-engine/
Yahoo is fighting hard in these search engine wars, and seems to be quite frequently releasing new and interesting goodies for web users. This new entry into the market is a fresh looking search tool called Alpha.
Yahoo Alpha takes a clean approach to searching, and closely compares to Google's Searchmash. Searchmash provides users clean results, with associated image, blog, video, and wikipedia results. The new Yahoo Alpha gives users results for Flickr photos, YouTube videos, News search, Wikipedia entries, and also gives users the ability to see sponsored listings if they choose, all in a nice contrast to Yahoo's busy homepage.
The cleaner the search application the better. The more that clutters the space, the more users get distracted and frustrated with the whole searching experience. Yahoo is on the move with this; now let's see who wins the battle for the new search landscape. What do DLS readers prefer, the new Yahoo Alpha (http://au.alpha.yahoo.com/), or Google's Searchmash (http://www.searchmash.com/)?
Yahoo is fighting hard in these search engine wars, and seems to be quite frequently releasing new and interesting goodies for web users. This new entry into the market is a fresh looking search tool called Alpha.
Yahoo Alpha takes a clean approach to searching, and closely compares to Google's Searchmash. Searchmash provides users clean results, with associated image, blog, video, and wikipedia results. The new Yahoo Alpha gives users results for Flickr photos, YouTube videos, News search, Wikipedia entries, and also gives users the ability to see sponsored listings if they choose, all in a nice contrast to Yahoo's busy homepage.
The cleaner the search application the better. The more that clutters the space, the more users get distracted and frustrated with the whole searching experience. Yahoo is on the move with this; now let's see who wins the battle for the new search landscape. What do DLS readers prefer, the new Yahoo Alpha (http://au.alpha.yahoo.com/), or Google's Searchmash (http://www.searchmash.com/)?