Yup, it's another public beta. This time it's My Yahoo Search. And it's launching in Yahoo! Next, which is where we're starting to put stuff we'd like the public to play with.

Kevin says it best over on his Personal Search: My Yahoo! Search Beta post:

The shift from analog to digital technology is reshaping much of the world around us, perhaps most noticeably in the realm of media. It seems like some of the most profound and transformative product introductions over the last few years are technologies that empower users to consume media how and when they want to, e.g., Tivo (tv), Netflix (home video), ipod (music) and of course blogs (news and information).

If I didn't know any better, I'd think Marc Canter was behind this, wouldn't you?

Kevin continues with:

In the world of search, this means that you should be able to define your own search experience. Today, the Web is a read-only source of information for most users; our vision is of a very individual Web...

So there you have it. Ask Jeeves A9 recently started on similar paths, so now our horse in the race. As John Battelle says, watch this space.

Posted by jzawodn at October 04, 2004 10:34 PM

Reader Comments
# Tim said:

Jeremy,
Aside from sharing, what do you see as the advantage for the user of hosted saved websites, such as Furl, and now MyYahoo have, vs. saving the results on your hard disk with something like slogger, then searching on your hard disk?

I've been noodling on a post about this for several weeks, but haven't managed to finalize. I'd be interested in your thoughts.

I hope that you post a lot from Web 2.0 as well -- I couldn't swing the entrance fee, but am very curious.

Thanks,

on October 5, 2004 02:38 AM
# jr said:

Well, while I can't speak for anyone over there, I can say that server based archiving can be preferable for those who don't have a single computer they do all their work from. Much like bookmarks, having a server based search system could allow someone like me to preserve their search experience both at home and at work (plus the occasional jaunt to my parents).

There are other ways to address that sort of thing, but this is probably the simplest.

on October 5, 2004 07:39 AM
# Andy said:

This could be great, but unlike Furl, it does not appear that this saves a permanent copy of the page as a "snapshot." Whereas Furl provides a permanent copy of, for example, newspaper articles that may become stale, this service seems only to add a link to the article. I don't see the diference in terms of archiving functionality between this and a bookmark.

I hope I'm wrong and that providing a page snapshot for personal archival is th eultimate goal of this service.

on October 5, 2004 01:00 PM
# Andy said:

This could be great, but unlike Furl, it does not appear that this saves a permanent copy of the found page as a "snapshot." Whereas Furl provides a permanent copy of, for example, newspaper articles that may become stale, this service seems only to add a link to the article. I don't see the difference in terms of archiving functionality between this and a bookmark.

I hope I'm wrong and that providing a page snapshot for personal archival is the ultimate goal of this service.

on October 5, 2004 01:06 PM
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