Yahoo! seriously wants you to stop installing extensions that enhance search pages. Instead, they provide plugs that you can hook into Yahoo! search pages without installation and do more with search results.
See StumbleUpon reviews & ratings inside Yahoo Search - No toolbars or extensions requiredFor instance, if a story from Digg appears in Yahoo search results, you can know the number of diggs that story received from the Yahoo page itself. Similarly you can integrate Yahoo with StumbleUpon to know the average SU rating of any website that turns up in Yahoo!.
To experience this yourself, login to Yahoo! and add some from the Search Gallery.
There are search plugins for LinkedIn and Facebook as well that minimizes guess work during people search because you get to see pictures and read basic profiles of users in the Yahoo search results itself. See screenshots.
LinkedIn Profile embedded inside Yahoo Search
Profile of a Facebook Member from Yahoo Search
And if you find something interesting to share with your friend, use the Clip add-in to save that link on del.icio.us, Google Bookmarks, etc.
Related: Search Features Unique to Yahoo
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Reader Comments
This can be serious business for Yahoo and is a step forward in the search business. Way to go. Would love to watch out what Google has to say.
Written by Palin Ningthoujam on 06.19.08
SearchMonkey has been a real differentiator. The beauty is the ease with which a user can add or remove these plugins.
I particularly love the linkedin and Stumbled upon plugins.
In general Y! Search has become pretty good over a period of time. These plugins make it even better.
Written by Ganga on 06.19.08
It’s great Yahoo! Search is adding good features. But I believe for average Joe, who just wants to find stuff quickly, end of day, quality of Search results would matter. I hope Yahoo! can match G! in near future.
Written by RohitBlog on 06.19.08
It’s good to see Yahoo! trying something new with search. I hope they’re realizing that they can’t beat Google by emulation and are trying new things instead.
Written by Joshua Jabin on 06.19.08
Loving these features. Google will surely come out with something like this soon.
Written by TechnoDiary.com on 06.21.08
Does this mean that Yahoo is going to stop installing those damned, persistent, sneaky search bars that take nothing short of a hard drive reformat to get rid of?
Probably not … but at least we can hope! A Yahoo! that “plays nice” while enhancing performance would be nice and might make me use them a LOT more than I currently do. And I used to use Yahoo! almost exclusively “back in the day” when they used to “play nice” with your computer and didn’t install all this useless crap on your computer.
Written by PArnote on 06.22.08
@RohitBlog: Agreed. But that is going to change soon. Imagine all ratings, review, feed or everything you may think of, being aggregated on a single search page.
Written by TechnoLaziness on 06.22.08
of course Google will found some think new like always but i hop yahoo being a good concurance of this guru (google)
Written by abbouh on 06.22.08
I like this! This is one of the few reasons I could start using Yahoo! search again (i dont .. at all!)
Written by Mayuresh Kadu on 06.23.08