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Yahoo Mindset
http://mindset.research.yahoo.com/
Yahoo Instant Search: This is yet another attempt by a major search engine to
provide answers instead of lists of search results, Yahoo's Instant Search tries to
give you a single, relevant response to a query. As their blog explains,
If search engines are so smart, why do they give you millions of results when you
type in "boston weather"? Why even ten, for that matter? Why not just one? Or
better yet, why not just tell me what the weather is? ..
Of course, the answer is that often there isn't one obvious "answer" to a query and
you may want a number of possible sites to explore. However, sometimes you just
want a straightforward response, and that is what Instant Search is trying to achieve.
Instant Search works best (in fact, only works) with simple requests, e.g., [weather
london] or [bwi] or [artificial intelligence] or [convert 150 dollars to pounds]. Keep in
mind, Instant Search is not trying to be another Answers.com, which "researches"
'answers to specific questions. Rather, Instant Search tries to "guess" what most
users would want to know if they entered a query such as [ravens]; Instant Search
guesses most users are looking for information about the Baltimore Ravens and not
about birds. Sometimes the guesses are good, sometimes not.
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