Yahoo! Search Serves Suggestions Closer to You

We’re making Search more intuitive by taking user context and applying it to the search experience. Today we are introducing an enhanced Yahoo! Search Assist, providing suggestions geographically closer to you as you type your query. 

Sitting here in our Yahoo! headquarters at Sunnyvale, if I type “santa” from Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, California,  I get “santa clara county” as the first suggestion.

geosensitive suggestion santa  

If I type the same query from my friend’s place in Santa Barbara, I get “santa barbara” as the first suggestion.

geosensitive suggestion santa barbara 

 Here’s another example that commuters in the New York and Pittsburgh metropolitan areas will appreciate: As I type “por [...]
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Date : 2010-09-02 16:00:03
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