New Yahoo Search: Alpha Project
I did Live search something on Yahoo beta but what I found is a Search project called “Alpha” which lead by Yahoo! 7 Search team. Some info from the team’s blog on April 5:
Yesterday, the Yahoo!7 Search team began testing a beta service called Alpha that was born out of pizza and furious coding.
Whilst aggregating feeds on one page is nothing new, we wanted to take a federated search concept one step further. With this beta, we have introduced personalisation elements that not only allow users to customise their view, but also to add their favourite search service (at least those who syndicate their search results via OpenSearch RSS).
We also decided to add a sharing element for logged in users of the site. Now, if you decide to share your personalised url with others, they can view and effectively use the search configuration you have developed
I have no idea what Yahoo! Search will do or what they think. I found not much info on it’s blog about the idea of this project but seems they start the thing from ground up, not just improving or adding new features to current search. Btw, Alpha has very clean interface– let’s play with it.
