Two days ago Yahoo! unveiled its updated search options. Firstly, there is the new option bar on the left side of your search results page.  This left menu option offers you the possibility of looking for one specific source only.  The sites proposed by Yahoo will vary based upon the keyword you use.  For example when you are looking for a person, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter will show up, but when you are looking for ‘how to’,  the sites  ehow, and YouTube  will show up.   It is a pretty good idea which facilitates searching.

Yahoo! New left Menu

The other innovation from the Yahoo! search team is the search history.  When you‘re looking for different keywords relevant to one topic Yahoo! can differentiate between two meanings for the same word.  For example, Yahoo! will understand that Jaguar is a car company and not an animal.

All these improvement are very good and quite user friendly, but I am not sure why they are doing all this work when we know that Bing is going to take over. Also, I cannot find any of these new options on Yahoo!. Maybe it is not online yet or I am not smart enough to find it.