Thursday, May 17, 2007

Google, Yahoo!, Live integrating various content in search

Google has revamped it's search interface, a major upgrade after a long time according some analysts.

Major changes include:
  • Universal Search: where one search will include snippets of news, videos, photos, maps, etc depending on where that search returns a good amount of results
  • Navigational links have been moved to top left. This allows those links to always be available even when viewing results
  • Google Video Search now includes videos from other sources apart from Google Video and YouTube
Google announced these new features at Seachology day on May 16th that was held at the headquarters.

A few days before Google's announcement, Yahoo! announced the integration of Flickr pictures of famous landmarks in its search results. Yahoo! alpha is another test interface by Yahoo that searches various types of content.

Not willing to be left behind, Microsoft Live is using another site called Imagine Live Search to test new search ideas. Imagine Live Search includes results from Image and Local Search. This is similar to Google's searchmash and Yahoo's AlltheWeb

I've become so much interested in the integration of various content available on the web with search since I started developing SearchWith, a search tool for Firefox and Mozilla-based applications. Follow the discussion on Techmeme.

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