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."

Comments

Firefox support

[digitalgimpus]

Yes, Yahoo does support firefox.

But the idea isn't very original. The functionality belongs to Firefox and has been around for quite some time. The default search engine is Google on Firefox.

So yes, by default you get G!Q installed, Yahoo wants you to "upgrade" to Y!Q.

Re:Tinfoil hat time...

[ColdGrits]

So no different from the information Google already collects about you every time you use Google to do a search, then, it seems.

Obligatory Bookmarklet

[hacker]

You can do this with a simple bookmarklet:

javascript:Qr=document.getSelection();if(!Qr){void (Qr=prompt('Keywords...',''))};if(Qr)location.href ='http://google.com/search?query='+'%22'+escape(Qr )+'%22&num=100'

Stick this on your Mozilla/Firefox toolbar (all on one line of course), highlight a word or words, and click it.

It also works if you click it without highlighting text. It will pop up a dialog where you can enter terms you want to search.

Simple!

del.icio.us integration?

[TuringTest]

For all those folks comparing it to Firefox "Search web for selection", this is a very different beast. What Y!Q does is adding metadata to your query, so that only pages are listed which both

1) contain the terms you selected and
2) are related to the metadata of the original website.

I wonder what the results could be if this technology were merged with masive metadata with distributed generation.