09 May 2008

Yahoo! unveils new visual search results

Yahoo! has unveiled Glue Pages Beta on Yahoo! India Search; a new style of search result, similar to Google's Universal Search system. The new pages replace the usual text list with a broad and visual selection of news articles, videos, images, Wikipedia entries and more along with the standard search results.

Glue Pages offer a more visual result than the standard Yahoo! results page, though the option to use the standard pages is still available, and they aim to produce a more natural search experience for the user. By combining a selection of results, Glue Pages offer enough information for quick fact checking and as well as a large base from which to expand your search.

A result for a celebrity or public figure, such as George W Bush, returns a short biography from Wikipedia, and selection of images, videos and Yahoo! Answers, while a search for diabetes has several encyclopaedia entries as well as news, blogs and Yahoo! Groups.

















At the moment Yahoo Glue only works with certain categories (sports, travel, entertainment, health, finance and technology) where the topic is broad enough to have many results from a wide range of sources, and there is some diversity in the layout of the as well as the content. For example, the result pages for a search for "diabetes" and "George W Bush" look quite different.

It is expected that Yahoo! will roll out this feature across their other sites throughout the year - so look out for a new (sticky) image search application in town.

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