Friday, September 16th, 2005
Yahoo! Instant Search
Category: LiveSearch
Yahoo! has released an Instant Search Beta that searches via Ajax as you type.
It differs from Google Suggest in that it isn’t queries that are shown, but actual search results.
When I played with it, it was a little hard to know when it was going off and doing things, and the results were average and too few.
Why feel lucky when you can be right? With Instant Search, find the information you want — without even hitting the search button. Results instantly appear for Yahoo! Shortcuts and common searches.
1.5 rating from 2 votes
Google is innovation
Yahoo is creativity
Apple is perfection
Micro..what?
I agree, this is a pretty weak tool so far, didn’t seem to work as expected. But it is a nice way to see where “I’m feeling luck” would take you before you commit. It reminds of how I wish work on the Google Keyboard Shortcuts lab project would have continued, I loved using that!
I am not impressed. The interface is as simple as it can get, but not intuitive. We did something similar with the Google web service (and you guys actually blogged about it) - http://dev.flashorb.com/weborb/examples/googleonsteroids.htm
cheers,
Terry
Is it just me or does it not like Firefox much?