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| Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 | --jr |
The Y!Autos team always seems to have a few clever tricks up their sleeves. One of the more clever tricks is something they rolled out a while ago.
Let's say you're looking for a VW, and you want to check Yahoo! Autos. Now, you could try going to the top page, browsing down, or finding the search box, but hey, you're already going to the address bar anyway. Why not try seeing if you can guess by entering in "http://autos.yahoo.com/vw"?
Pretty clever, huh?
And the nice thing is that since they're doing a search, you could look use that to search for information about "minis" (if you can't remember if BMW makes them or if Austin Healy still made them.
Very cool, and something I'd love to get rolled out to more properties.
October 18th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
[...] Hack Days have become a big deal within the engineer culture at Yahoo!, and no group exemplifies that more than Yahoo! Autos. They’ve actually worked the concept into their regular work schedule, holding their own Hack Days every 5 or 6 weeks and allocating up to 15% of their time to devote to creating and refining hacks. As a result, you can see a fantastic number of fun ideas coming to life on the Yahoo! Autos site. [...]