With Google and Bing becoming the dominant forces in online search at the moment, Yahoo is having to work hard in order to stay relevant and the company has begun rolling out significant changes to the way it presents results with the aim to make found items and information more useful to people. The new results offer ways to pull up the important details like images, articles, tweets, videos and such easily and show slideshows right above standard search results showing trending topics from Yahoo.com sources and elsewhere. There will also be quick apps included, such as a Netflix Web app that allows subscribers to add DVDs to their queues directly from the search results page.
The new Yahoo Image Search also enables users to view slideshows from Flickr and Yahoo's other content sites, along with friends' public Facebook albums, if they linked their Facebook accounts to their Yahoo accounts. The mobile version of the site will be improved too with HTML5 technology, with iPhone and Android users getting faster and more sophisticated results. The new tools will be rolling out on Yahoo's US site and a global rollout will begin in 2011
Yahoo Image Search: http://images.search.yahoo.com/images
Yahoo Search: http://search.yahoo.com/
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