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Yahoo! Announces Alpha Personalized Search

April 6th, 2007

Yahoo! came up with a new search service, called Alpha, earlier this week:

“Whilst aggregating feeds on one page is nothing new, we wanted to take a federated search concept one step further. With this beta, we have introduced personalisation elements that not only allow users to customise their view, but also to add their favourite search service (at least those who syndicate their search results via OpenSearch RSS).

We also decided to add a sharing element for logged in users of the site. Now, if you decide to share your personalised url with others, they can view and effectively use the search configuration you have developed.

We thought the idea was good enough to develop further into a public beta site and get a few ideas from the Australian search community at large.”

You can test the new search at http://au.alpha.yahoo.com.

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