Yahoo is all set to outrun Google offering a new search experience it describes as the fastest thing you have ever seen. Its latest product Search Direct combines instant search with instant answers, so that typing in lebr instantly shows a full box with all details about most popular Lebron James(Check out the picture). The product has answers for 15 categories of entities, including movies, professional athletes, music, celebrities, weather info, news, shopping, local and stocks. Yahoo has always emphasized on answers in parallel with search.
Search Direct is live on search.yahoo.com and other U.S. Yahoo search properties, but not the homepage yet. The same experience will soon come to all search boxes on Yahoo and seeing it popularity there is no doubt that it may find its way to non-Yahoo properties as well.
Yahoo compared the new experience favorably to Google's own Instant Search, saying that Google's feature merely shows search-result pages faster, while this brings people answers incredibly quickly. Search Direct doesn't require a fast net connection and the system is built using infrastructure that Yahoo owns.
It's not clear if Yahoo's figured out search's future, but Search Direct is incredibly fast and could prove to be so useful that we'll all soon forget when we had to type a full word and hit Enter to figure something out. Click here to have a look at Search Direct
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