Yahoo! Expands Wikipedia Search
According to the official Yahoo! Search blog yesterday, Yahoo! is expanding its relationship with Wikipedia to make Wikipedia more accessible and easier to use with fewer scrolls and clicks. Kalpana Ravinarayanan of Yahoo! Search explains, “When you see a Wikipedia result in Yahoo! Search, we’ll also include a section of links directly to the main sections of the Wikipedia entry, so you can quickly get to the exact information you’re looking for.”
The relationship between Yahoo! and Wikipedia will offer users a narrower search that will lead to more specific information. For example, a search for the word “coffee” offers quick links to coffee bean types, history and etymology (of coffee), and the café. These quick links take the user to the main section of the Wikipedia entry that contains the information.
Yahoo! has also recently added new features to its beta version of Yahoo! Answers, which offers a question and answer exchange that allows users to tap into knowledge from web users all over the world. New features include an Ajax widget that searches previously asked questions the user types a question, a badge that bloggers and website owners can customized and display on their sites, and an expanded help section for users.
Reader Comments.
Great. Now the moronic trash endlessly generated over at Wikipedia will be linked to every single Yahoo internet search. They should call their ‘Quick Links” ‘Quick Trash’ or ‘Click here to read something misinformed, slanderous and stunningly stupid about any given topic’. Or ‘what are the most ignorant people you ever hope not to meet saying about a subject’.
But no. They parade it as ‘encyclopedic’, ‘informative’, a ‘public service’ no less…’ Exact information’ ??!! That’s about the most grotesquely hilarious thing I’ve read today.
Glen S.
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