SEO light

Yahoo Developed an Instant Search Interface in 2005

Stephen Hood, a former Yahoo employee, says that Yahoo developed an interface similar to Google Instant 5 years ago. It was called LiveSearch and it was launched as an experimental interface for AllTheWeb.com.Yahoo would not let us ship LiveSearch on yahoo.com or as a part of Yahoo's search engine. Instead we were only allowed to launch it on AllTheWeb, a smaller, lower-traffic search engine that Yahoo had acquired years earlier and largely left to atrophy. (...) You have to remember that, at the time, Yahoo's search business was doing just well enough that there was very little institutional appetite for product risk. As a result, "big" or disruptive ideas were too often left to whither on the vine. By focusing on the local maximum, Yahoo unwittingly traded innovation for incremental optimization. LiveSearch was thus relegated to a tiny test bucket of users who didn't actually use Yahoo [...]
URL : http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/09/yahoo-tested-in-2005-instant-search.html
Date : 2010-09-09 08:16:00
=> Read the news.

Author : Google Operating System

Unofficial news and tips about Google. A blog that watches Google's latest developments and the attempts to move your operating system online.
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/

Hot related news ! (By date)

Jun 04, 2011 - AdSense Publishers To Get Phone Support

Jun 03, 2011 - SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 3, 2011

Jun 03, 2011 - Introducing: The Periodic Table Of SEO Ranking Factors

Jun 03, 2011 - Social Media Is Still A Mystery To Many Businesses

Jun 03, 2011 - Search In Pics: GoogleBot Cookies, Yahoo Planking & Wall Of Googlers