Yahoo! News Search launches new UI

Just a quick note to say that we launched the new Yahoo! News Search UI today. This is actually a complete and total rewrite of the entire system using the global search platform, ready to be internationalized. The look and feel has now been coordinated with the other search verticals, and we’ve finally [...]

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Y! Search: Russia

Today we launched the new Russian Yahoo! Search. Go check it out… if you… speak… y’know… Russian. Otherwise go look at all the funny characters.
This is actually really cool because it is the first international search property running on our new global platform. Development turnaround for the other more prominent intls should [...]

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Not So Much…

…with the blogging recently. I’ve been busy and sick. Anyways, here’s an update for posterity.
Work
Our magical new project is coming along quite nicely. Unfortunately, I can’t tell you anything about it. It’s pretty sweet though, and should be out in beta soon. We also have a totally unbelievable completely kickassly [...]

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New Yahoo! Image Search

We launched (officially) the new yahoo image search today. You can check it out at http://images.search.yahoo.com.
It uses totally new backend technology and we’ve finally integrated Yahoo! News and Yahoo! Movies into the database, so queries like man on fire tend to return much better results than you’d get on Google. Here’s a complete list [...]

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