Yahoo! Cool Thing of the Day

The quite cool Glue™ pages from Yahoo! India Search have gotten so much positive buzz that it was only a matter of time before we brought them over to the States. You can definitely tell that a few things got changed in the translation, though. The general idea of Yahoo! Glue remains the same, of course: we want to "glue" together all of the most relevant content for a high level query in one place, using sources from all over the web. However, while the Y! India Search version is dynamic, the new version takes the interesting route of apparently being manually constructed per query, though I'm sure it's algorithmically aided. I can see that this would lead to fewer false positives for results, but it doesn't seem to scale as well; it really makes me wonder if we'd eventually open this up as a collaborative wiki-style project (which, I dunno, sounds pretty awesome to me). You'll also immediately note that the US Glue generally doesn't include web search results, I suppose because it's trying to give you exactly the information that you need, instead of wasting space guessing at it. Regardless, the end result is still compelling as a destination for general information about a topic, and I can't wait to see where it goes from here.

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