Yahoo! Glue Finally Comes to the US and It's Awesome
This May Yahoo! started testing an "all in one" search product called Yahoo Glue in India. It's a really cool service that tonight becomes available to US users of Yahoo.
Yahoo! Glue search results include web search, images, news, blog search, Wikipedia and YouTube videos. That's right - in the India version at least Yahoo! displayed search results from both Google's YouTube and Google Blogsearch. The end result - all these links on one page - is pretty awesome.
The Indian version prioritized pages relevant to India, which is interesting, but a little unhelpful to those outside of India. Tonight's roll out will include a version that prioritizes US relevance and uses an algorithm to determine which media type is most relevant to a particular search. That type's widget will appear highest on the page. Starting at 6:30 PM PST tonight you should be able to give it a spin and let us know what you think at Glue.Yahoo.com.
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Hey and the UK! :D
Very cool though...looks like kosmix.com/ has some competition.
FAIL. it fails bigtime. i searched for drag racing and got flickr images of drag queens. good thing i didn't search for hot rods.
yes after hearing others' experiences i am less excited
Glue's page on Drag Racing has been corrected. They must be reading this blog.
Yahoo still has not really figured out the real essense behind search. People search for information and not really looking at say "wiki info", "Youtube info" etc. First get an algorithm in place to get quality results out.
Fighting brains at Google by making half ass efforts really do not succeed. Get abck to basics Yahoo and stick to what you are good at - Databases and such
Google did this with searchmash a while ago but included search results. Funny thing is I checked and it has been kiled. A9 also did this as well. One favorite of mine was searchcrystal. I had this in a presentation on web 2.0 and beyond (slide 20) which I still have towards the top of my worldlearningtree.com/blog
Posted by: harleycw.pip.verisignlabs.com
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November 20, 2008 8:10 AM
All the Google fan boys out there,
can some one actually quantify and prove to me that Google is by far the most superior engine in the world. It mostly seems to be goodwill gained around 2000 - 2004 that seems to be flowing in still.
Has google done anything innovative in search for the last 4 years ? Given the number of fanboys and the newspapers/bloggers who provide free PR to Google, i guess we are going to be stuck with opinions founded on very week facts.
Hey marshall, why dont you run a scientific study and actually track your information needs and try to measure which of the search engines met your information needs the best.
I can vouch for the fact that for most query terms, yahoo throws up equally relevant results and for "some" navigational query terms, Yahoo outperforms Google.
any body game for a more scientific experiment to do a search comparison rather than a "I a fanboy, these guys havent innovated but they are still great" opinions.
Seems yahoo glue does not have enough coverage on content, tried with search on 'Monterey' and 'Ruby', not as good as Kosmix result:
http://www.kosmix.com/topic/Monterey
http://in.glue.yahoo.com/?query=Monterey
http://www.kosmix.com/topic/Ruby
http://in.glue.yahoo.com/?query=ruby
experiences i am less excited