After Yahoo’s deal with Microsoft regarding the search outsourcing, Yahoo is still making news in proving that they still in online search circle. Coming to its users, Yahoo offers new user interface changes to its search results.
One thing noticeable of these changes is Yahoo’s three-column design template. Actually, this isn’t the first time for a search company to offer three-column search page. In June 2007, Ask 3D introduced this kind of template but decided to pull it out after a year. Early in May, Google released the same template through the feature ‘Show Option.’ And on the last weeks of May, Bing offered their own three-column design.
Also featured on this Yahoo’s latest design, its left-most column is where you can find other add-ons such as search applications, site filters, data filters and assistance.
The Google feature ‘Show More Results’ is a cool thing similar to Yahoo’s newest ‘Site Filters.’ Yahoo’s version is more kind of consistent and is easier to find on the search page.
Also, Yahoo offers results from social network sites which is a pretty helpful piece of add-on. The ‘Search Assist’ feature help users to refine their searches. ‘Real Concepts’, another added feature of Yahoo’s newest template, uses the concept of drill down to provide more helpful results.
Another cool application is Yahoo’s calculator. Of course, the site offered this before but this time, it offers an actual image of the calculator that lets you do the mathematics like the usual. Plus, the Magic Eight Ball and the new Search Pad makes the site more user-friendly.