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ysearchblog.com - 12/3/2008
Yahoo! Search Blog: Look Before You Click: Search Assist for Image Search
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We just took a look back at the progress we've made over the last year with Search Assist and a look forward to our goals of continuing to improve the usefulness of our assistance technology. With this objective in mind, we recently launched Search Assist for image search to guide users to the ...
Hogan's Litvack Discusses Google/Yahoo
amlawdaily.typepad.com - 12/3/2008
Hogan's Litvack Discusses Google/Yahoo
— amlawdaily.typepad.com — December 2, 2008 1:00 PM Hogan's Litvack Discusses Google/Yahoo Posted by Nate Raymond Litvack Google Inc. and... Yahoo! Inc. called off their joint advertising agreement just three hours before the Department of Justice planned to file antitrust charges ... (more) Hogan's Litvack Discusses Google/Yahoo

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Microsoft Appoints Dr. Qi Lu to Run Online Services Group: Yahoo! veteran to oversee Internet offerings for consumers, advertisers and publishers.
microsoft.com - 12/4/2008
Microsoft Appoints Dr. Qi Lu to Run Online Services Group: Yahoo! veteran to oversee Internet ...
— microsoft.com — Yahoo! veteran to oversee Internet offerings for consumers, advertisers and publishers. REDMOND, Wash. — Dec. 4, 2008... — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Dr. Qi Lu will join the company as president of the Online Services Group. Dr. Lu will lead ... (more) Microsoft Appoints Dr. Qi Lu to Run Online Services ...

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Former Yahoo Tech Star Qi Lu Likely To Be Named Microsoft’s Digital Head By Next Week
kara.allthingsd.com - 12/4/2008
Former Yahoo Tech Star Qi Lu Likely To Be Named Microsoft’s Digital Head By Next Week
— kara.allthingsd.com — Former Yahoo tech star Qi Lu (pictured here) is poised to take on the big job of... being Microsoft’s top digital executive, according to several sources inside and outside the company. The appointment could be announced by Microsoft as ... (more) Former Yahoo Tech Star Qi Lu Likely To Be Named ...

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Yahoo Suggestions for Image Search
WebProNews Feed — ... It suggests search terms as you type in your query. In case you are too lazy to continue typing, you can click on one of the suggestions provided and get to your results. They recently launched it for Yahoo Image Search, but have now started incorporating a feature that actually brings up samples of image results along with the actual text query suggestions. "To better enhance the search experience, we took a two-tiered approach to the query formulation and refinement process," explains Yahoo Search Director of Product Management Kaushal Kurapati. "In the first stage, we've ...

Yahoo Adds Search Assist for Image Search
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — By Taylor Pratt Yahoo! rolled out yesterday a new Search Assist feature for their image search. Yahoo’s Search Assist is a feature that gives users recommendations to make their search more specific and return more relevant results. The new Search Assist feature is two-tiered. The first tier consists of the normal Search Assist recommendations. The second tier displays previews of images you’ll see if you select that specific search phrase. Entering the keyword “bob” into the search bar brings up the following Search ...

Yahoo! Search Assist for Image Search
D' Technology Weblog — ... Yahoo! launched “Search Assist for Image Search” that’ll return images within the actual Search Assist bar for users to preview sample thumbnails for the top related search terms, refine queries. To generate search assist image results, go to ...

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VentureBeat — ... Yahoo’s Search Assist gets image previews — The feature, which allows you to see the results for a suggested search before you actually click, is now available on on the search results page, and will be added to Yahoo.com eventually. ...

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