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Yahoo's Y!Q Contextual Search Beta

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the punctuation-equals-edgy-we-swear dept.

skeptic1 writes "Just days after Microsoft unvieled its new MSN search, Yahoo released a new search tool called Y!Q that allows users to search within the context of the web pages they are currently viewing. It's not the typical textbox input search, and you don't even have to leave the current page you're on to use it. The current release is only the beta version."

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  1. Yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Goolge loves to innovate.

  2. Why bang Q? Yo dog, why bang Q? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Sounds like a ghettospeak

  3. I can't wait until the next party and people..... by ip_freely_2000 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...try and verbalize "Y!Q"

    or maybe I'll just skip that party.

  4. Re:I can't wait until the next party and people... by Tackhead · · Score: 3, Funny
    > ...try and verbalize "Y!Q"
    >
    >or maybe I'll just skip that party.

    You think you've got trouble. I was at this party, and the guy was telling me about Y!Q.

    Fortunately, I was raised by a !Kung tribe, so I was able to understand it when this guy started talking about Y!Q.

    Unfortunately, DNS (which was not invented by the !Kung), I couldn't even guess what the domain name for the Y!Q search engine was supposed to be.

    So I thought I'd just google for it. Heh.

    I really shoulda skipped that party.

  5. Re:Firefox support by pHatidic · · Score: 5, Funny

    The website says the demobar requires windows 95 and better. Does that means it runs on OS X and Linux?

  6. Re:I can't wait until the next party and people... by hanshotfirst · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Yick"
    "Why Bank?"

    I didn't read the article, and will continue to use Ctrl-F to search within the context of my current web page. No Yahoo required.

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  7. Re:I can't wait until the next party and people... by Reignking · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why bang Q? He's omnipotent, that's why.

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  8. Re:Firefox support by Blue-Footed+Boobie · · Score: 2, Funny

    When I search the web for "xxx" I don't get anything even close to what I wanted!!

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