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Yahoo's Y!Q Contextual Search Beta
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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Highlight the text in a webpage, right click. You get "Search for " Sounds like the good folks at mozilla already have this feature. And the tags on the page described just seem like useless overhead.
Sometimes I wish computers were less friendly.
Googlebar. You can highlight words, right click, Googlebar items, Search for selected text.
I'm running the Googlebar extension version 0.9.0.30 if it makes a difference.
I didn't read the article, so I'm hoping that's the sort of thing you were referring to.
If you RTFA you have seen they give many different ways to integrate into firefox. http://yq.search.yahoo.com/splash/firefox.html
Yes, it already exists.. It existed the moment you installed Firefox. Just highlight the word, right click, and go to "Search Web for 'highlighted content'" It's right above that, if installed, dictionary extension you were talking about.
Do you see how my mind works? It's like a laser!
In firefox, with a default install, you can highlight a phrase, right click, and choose "Search the web for xxx"
It searches Google.
It's a shame the poster didn't link to the info we posted on the Yahoo! Search blog last night. I think it answers some of the questions coming up here. Then again, this is Slashdot! :-)
Jeremy D. Zawodny /
I get the feeling that all the other posters pointing out that firefox already supports "highlight and search" don't get the point. I think the novelty here is that you can highlight huge sections of text, send it to Y!Q, and it will find other pages that are related, given that context.
After playing with it, I can see some how Y!Q is different - I went to a random article on Google news, highlighted an entire paragraph of text, and sent it to Y!Q. It returned a bunch of pages related to that original news article. When you do the same thing with Google search, not surprisingly, it only returns one page.
So, yes, Y!Q does something different. I don't know if it's entirely useful, but it's not entirely redundant, either.
Everything Google stores about you is in a cookie, so if you wanna be an ignorant dumbass and believe cookies can harm you, then just block google.com from setting cookies.
Answers.com is free now.
Don't forget all the prolific Google AdSense content embedded directly into so many web pages. Google is in a better position to track a web surfer than any other entity, with the exception of spyware running on the actual client machine.
Dan East
Better known as 318230.
I think it could be useful. First off I like the fact that you get the little popup div inline with what your reading so you can quickly determine if any of the search results will really help you with what your reading.
Secondly, I can see alot of blogs using this - I already added it to mine. I discuss alot of technical topics that not everyone who visits might know about - but they might want to learn more about. I don't go into any great detail on most of the topics so the inline search might help my family figure out what I'm talking about when I post a "geek" entry.
So now I have google and yahoo search integrated into my site. Theres nothing wrong with options.