Comments on: Yahoo revamps search engine

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:48:37 +0000

Don -

That’s really your industry’s fault. If you wanted to come up first for “springfield news”, you shouldn’t have called the medium “television”, but something like “newsmovingpictures” or something.

By: mike jones

mike jones — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:02:39 +0000

Hate to say it, but the honest truth is that if I’m going out of market to look for news in another city, I’d much prefer a newspaper to a local tv station as a source. (That is unless stormy the dog is in the house).

I would think most people would, too.

Newspapers do news better. Tv stations, in general, do video better.

If I want a tv station site, ill search “boise video.” Or “boise tv”.

By: Don Day

Don Day — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:24:12 +0000

Hey Chris -

The issue with the “city news” thing is that if you type in Las Vegas News, the suggestion tray pops up “Las Vegas Newspaper” as the first item - which would steer people toward paper sites at the expense of TV sites.

By: discreet_chaos

discreet_chaos — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:27:40 +0000

If I’m not mistaken this has been in beta on search[dot]yahoo for some time, but it only recently moved to the mainsite. It also seems that Google Labs has had something similar in beta for a while, but just like the Yahoo incranation, I’m not a big fan. Sure, if you were doing a simple search, but once you get fairly complex or off the beaten path, neither of the wizards do a lot of good.

By: Chris Way

Chris Way — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:48:25 +0000

“Las Vegas News” returned local news sites, and we got second billing in the search results. Don, what was the issue with city name + news?

By: !!!

!!! — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:24:40 +0000

Rock On, TDC!

By: tdc

tdc — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:50:50 +0000

btw- if i’m from boise and i have to enter boise+news to search for news in my hometown, then your bosses should have been fired long ago

now what was that argument that out-of-market eyeballs were never the target?

By: thedetroitchannel

thedetroitchannel — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:40:45 +0000

i’ll ask again: who the f needs a ‘partnership’ for top billing? why not be top-of-mind instead?

all you do is share your $$$ with others who place their, not your, interest first.

whether it’s YaHoo! , cnn, msn or ?, why not innovate?

think in terms of becoming the defacto name in “city+news” rather than how much of the pie you split with others.

By: Michael Gay

Michael Gay — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:31:42 +0000

Another thing “they” get thanks to the Yahoo partnership?

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:50:30 +0000

You’re right. City name + news = [air quotes] the competition [end air quotes].

By: Brink

Brink — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:32:30 +0000

Who chose the drop-down tray’s “suggestions”?