Thursday, October 25, 2007

Search technology at its finest

Yahoo has just added a lovely little drop-down box to their search site; when you search for something, it gives you 'related concepts'.

The concepts supplied for me are interesting. Highlights:
  • Gender - Do I have more of it than other people, or something?
  • Tesco - Damn! I wanted to be Aldi!
  • Lifeline - Do they think I need one?
  • Demonware - Uncanny of them. I suspect they're cribbing off Linked-In or Facebook.
  • Hate the Summer - Why, yes, I do!
  • Search ratings - I am NOT an evil SEO person, thanks so much.
Nice idea, poorly executed. I suppose it could conceivably be useful for some terms, but I'm not convinced. Also, their damn website is still really slow, as is MSN's search one. Peoeple like speed and Google got that right. Learn from them.


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