Product Pulse – May 11, 2007

Posted May 12th, 2007 at 12:33 am by Julie Han, Blog Team

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Whew — how times flies. Wasn’t it just yesterday that a computer beat World Champion Garry Kasparov in just six rounds of chess? For more battles between man and machine, read this week’s update:

• Pack your bags: Yahoo! Travel’s new Trip Recommendations tool is your one-stop-find-book-and-relax resource for your summer vacation! “Today’s Picks” automatically pulls up your top ten destinations (based on your recent online activity and preferences) with direct links to weather reports, hotels and air deals, and art and nightlife options. You’ll even find personalized travel deals throughout 45,000 travel guides to match your budget as well as customized mapping options to help plot your walk around town (see example at the bottom of this page). More is merrier, so don’t forget to try the Yahoo! Messenger plug-in to research and book flights in real-time with your pals and kin.
• Show off: The new Flickr slideshow rocks. Now we’ve got larger photos, cool title overlays and descriptions, and a dramatic black background. Check out an example of cuteness here or get started on your own.
• Robot-astic: Another goodie for webmasters everywhere — the new robots-nocontent tag. Just like you use HTML titles to tell search engines what your web page is all about, you can use this tag to pull out your web page’s unique content and block whatever isn’t relevant in search results. What does this mean for the rest of us? More relevant results on your next Yahoo! Search. Read more here.
• Slicker-looking flicks: To celebrate everything warm and sunny, we’ve done some spring cleaning on Yahoo! Video. It now sports a fresher, cleaner look and we’ve added some new features, like modules for most popular videos and best channels (because who doesn’t need a good series of hamster shenanigans to break up a long conference call?). Read more here.
• Lyrical genius?: We sang about Yahoo! Music’s new lyrics site last week, but now we’ve made it even easier for you to sing your heart out (eyes closed for dramatic effect) at karaoke night. Go to Yahoo! Search type in “Beastie Boys lyrics” or “Nelly Furtado Say it Right lyrics” and see shortcuts to their top songs and latest news about your fave diva.

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Srinath | May 12th, 2007 at 10:09 am

I loved the new flickr slide show. Also the new Yahoo! video site rocks with its clean look.

=bg= | May 13th, 2007 at 3:40 pm

Yes, the video re-do looks neat. Like the Mother’s Day logo a lot- tho our AT&T Yahoo DSL never shows the holiday logo- which I hate.

What’s up with the front page redesign- moving the search top and center?

Duranto | May 17th, 2007 at 2:51 am

:)