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| Thursday, January 11th, 2007 | --Sean |
While I was poking around for my last Y! Cool Thing blog post to make sure that we had a currency conversion shortcut from our search box, I serendipitously ran across our entire listing of search shortcuts, which has icons and everything! Did you know you could get traffic reports for various cities? Or real-time sports scores? Reference links for flight status, package locations, patent information? Did you know that we have a search-box calculator, too? And, heck, did you know about the entire Open Shortcuts system, which can do just about anything if you set it up right?
Well, now you do (if you didn't already)!
And knowing is half the battle...G.I. Joe!
January 25th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
[...] I could have sworn that we’d talked about Instant Search before, but for the life of me, I can’t find it anywhere in the archives. So I’ll assume that I’m not repeating anything here. Basically, Instant Search is a cute application of the idea that, hey, if we think we know the search result that you’re looking for, why not show it to you right away instead of bothering to load up a new page? You can read more about it in the FAQ, but basically think of it like a “I’m Feeling Relatively Confident” option for your search page that’ll give you back the top result right away (especially if it’s one of our shortcuts). [...]