Searching for cool things
| Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 | --Sean |
I keep wanting to do a full-on review of how cool the new Yahoo! Search features are, but it's a big task to handle and I get the sneaking suspicion that the Y! Search Blog Squad has already got it totally covered. So, rest assured, Search Assist and search page redesign and suggestions on the SERPs as well as the top page of Yahoo! and increased Flickr and Answers integration, all of those are very cool things and each would probably warrant their own entry if I didn't think that I'd feel guilty about stretching out a single update for so long.
One Yahoo! Search feature that I've never really seen publicized, however, is the option to change the number of search results that show up on a search result page. Maybe this has been around for ages, but I just noticed it thanks to the handy "Options" dropdown menu that shows up next to the search box now. Any more than 20 results per page makes it a bit tricky to consume, in my opinion, but it's nice to have the freedom to mess with my finely tuned search experience! I'm still trying to come up with a particular application where having 100 results per page is useful. So far I've just determined that it's fun to scroll.
Also, we've mentioned this before, but I feel like it's a point worth driving home: type http://ysearch.com for all of your searching needs! It's easy to remember and prevents the onset of carpal tunnel!