Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Y!Q ... huh? Ok Jeremy Zawodny and others involved ... I have to ask ... why even do this? Isn't this simply the reinvention and repackaging of the basic hyperlink into a more cumbersome to implement, space invasive, and, oh yeah, Yahoo branded format? Am I wrong about this? Why would anyone go through all this work for such limited results? If I was going to build an enhanced search feature that allowed quick targeted search from a web page, I'd build it so the person viewing that page could search ANY word on the page .... yes, ANY word or ANY phrase ... wait ... I already did this for IE users about 9 months ago ... it's called Search Selected @ and you can exercise it on this page by selecting any text you want and then clicking a link in Search Selected @ section of the menu to the right to perform target search at a number of sites. Or ... duh ... you can put this same capability on your own page by pointing to my javascript file. Come on Yahoo ... I have higher expectations of you than Y!Q and its cousin the purple news spot. Wasn't it about the time these jewels were introduced that Google blew through $250 a share? Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not, now 'scuse me while I get back to dusting my roses.
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