Yahoo Search Assist: struggling for keywords

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan has the scoop of Yahoo’s latest beta-product, Yahoo Search Assist. an iteration on type-ahead tools like Google Suggest or Yahoos own Search Suggest, Search Assist selectively suggests terms for refining a query by clustering common keywords within search-results. this should basically help in situations when users struggle to find the “right” keyword to refine their queries. in his screencast, Danny demonstrates the new feature - which is only available to a select number of users at the moment - by searching for Lego organizing systems. (more…)