Keeping tabs on Google, Yahoo modifies home page | CNET News.com: “Yahoo altered its home page this weekend to showcase specialized search features.”
The leaner version is of course available search.yahoo.com. Silicon.com has good coverage and asks “does the homepage look strangely familiar?“: “Ali Diab, director of product management: This is one thing among many that you will see in the next month, in terms of improvements in helping our users find what they’re looking for.” Also: “The design changes reflect an internal mandate at the company to make search a prominent feature across the entire network.”
As search becomes a more pervasive mode of information retrieval, it is easy to imagine a future somewhat like this:
November 4th, 2003 at 5:32 pm
Here’s another one: In My Neighbourhood, which would search shops and such in my neighbourhood.
November 4th, 2003 at 5:35 pm
Or: you could add neigbourhoods, ie. you could add the area where you work when you change jobs.