Comments on: The new Yahoo! Search

By: Claudia

Claudia — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:15:43 +0000

I would like to disable the Yahoo! Search Assist function in the Web Search bar. This will allow me to use my keyboard page up, page down and cursor key functions. I do not want to disable the toolbar since I use those icons. In November, 2009, I was able to use my keyboard functions when viewing links from my att.net home page. That is, after viewing a link, I would go back to the previous screen and the screen would return to the same point I left off at.

What happens now when going back to my homepage after viewing a link, the cursor jumps back in the Web Search bar and I have to left click the mouse several times to disable it each time in order to use keyboard functions. How can I eliminate the constant disabling of the Search Assist each time???

By: ted

ted — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:25:04 +0000

the new search bar brings up unrelated topic and lists them from where its at to the bottom of the page sometimes. for me if i clic on anyone of them except the first one or 2 the page never loads or takes a really long time
why didnt you just leave well enough alone.
it seems your always changing from stuff that works for me to some silly boondoogle someone dreamed up while throwing pencils at a paper target on the wall

By: rofo

rofo — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:59:30 +0000

How do I permanently disable Yahoo Search assist. It jumbles up my typing. I’ve disabled preference for search assist but everytime I go to Yahoo, I have to disable it again. I might as well switch to google. I just answered my own question. I’ll be switching to google.

By: IB

IB — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:40:47 +0000

PLEASE!!!!
How do I disable m.www.yahoo.com?????????????????????
HOW??????????????????????????????????????????????????

By: audra

audra — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:35:05 +0000

Until its fixed im afraid I will be using google.com. Im no fan of google searches, since they never bring up exactly what I typed in like yahoo does. But Ide rather refine my searches a little further than deal with lag. Sorry Yahoo, not one of your better changes. :(

By: audra

audra — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:32:15 +0000

I dont meen to seem rude, but I hate this new m.www.yahoo.com. Im sure it wouldent be so bad if it wasnt so damn slow and lagging my computer. Im use to fast searches with yahoo and fast loads. I dont want to be one of the testers. I want yahoo.com back so Im not waiting forever and a day for it to load or my searches to type itself out.

By: mike flagg

mike flagg — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:55:17 +0000

There, it’s done. Homepage is set to facebook.com.
Bye Yahoo. It’s over. You are making AOL.com look good, and that is not an easy or wise thing to do.

By: mike flagg

mike flagg — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:51:08 +0000

What in the hell is this M.www.yahoo.com and how do I disable it? It is useless, it is annoying. my homepage is set to http://www.yahoo.com and it won’t even go there. In my estimation, anything that redirects is and should be dealt with as a virus. If this can’t be changed, yahoo.com goes directly into the trash bin.

By: C.C. Low

C.C. Low — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:13:43 +0000

Ever wondered why with so many people switching to Google as their faviourite search engine people like me still stayed with Yahoo?

Well its because your previous classic web page had been very user friendly and convenient to use. It also had a very presentable and attention arresting front. This new web page has a very annoying look and is not that user friendly. Worst still it was forced onto us with no recourse for us to switch back to the old one.

Well if the idea is to make Yahoo users switch to Google or some other search engine then congratulations because that’s exactly what’s going to happen.

Aready with a lower user network base compared to Google, your staff should be thinking ways of improving your search capabilities instead of trying out superficial front pieces in the form of artistry,etc. Why change something that works ? Its the most stupidest thing to do having not learnt of the last stupid thing when your board could have sold Yahoo at what was then a very good price per share. Instead, look at its standing now, and this present piece of “technological breakthrough” ain’t no such thing. Be prepared to lose more users to Google.

By: wdemps

wdemps — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:41:57 +0000

Honestly, search assistant may be one of the most annoying interfaces imaginable. You have transformed a rather simple, transparent and elegant interfaces into an inordinately cumbersome, irritating, and fussy piece of programming. It has too many features and intrusions in the user interface. More is not always better.
If only it could be turned off…..

By: gunlistener

gunlistener — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:24:48 +0000

Not only do we now have a purple mesage urging us to use yahoo search, which I have no intention of doing because of the irritating serch thing that keeps popping up ( I use google now for all my searches) but the yahoo homepage kept defaulting to yahoo.co.uk instead of yahoo.com…ggrrr…. and then it seemed as the yahoo page was hijacked going to another page with the url m.yahoo.com or something similar. Luckily I spywarescanned my pc and the old page seems to have returned. Luckily I didnt enter any details on the new page. Yahoo should get the police involved to investigate this as hacking is illegal!

Please yahoo give a simple, clean, fast yahoo home page with news a simple search box and simple ‘one click’ links to access email. Customers won’t use your page if it’s cluttered with junk, you have to keep turning of things you never wanted in the first place and takes 3 clicks to get to where you want be!

By: pete

pete — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:51:46 +0000

I was going to post a complaint about the search assistant and the misssing basic email link and the defaulting to yahoo uk and ireland but someon beat me to it so I’m just going to second that post and copy and paste…..

No doubt yahoo will ignore this post as well as all the others above complaining about the same thing… Obviuosly yahoo has a very low opinion of their customers intelligence as they think that we need to be told what to search for and told what our home page should be… please get back to basics yahoo and keep things clean, simple and uncluttered…

“how do I disable the search assistant forever? It is very frustarting having it popping up all the time, taking up space on my screen and slowing things down. Also, where did the basic email link go? Why does my homepage now default to yahoo uk and ireland? I want yahoo.com back…if i wanted yahoo uk and ireland I would have selected it… yahoo really know how to alienate their customers…. I may start using Google.”

By: martin

martin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:38:37 +0000

how do I disable the search assistant forever? It is very frustarting having it popping up all the time, taking up space on my screen and slowing things down. Also, where did the basic email link go? Why does my homepage now default to yahoo uk and ireland? I want yahoo.com back…if i wanted yahoo uk and ireland I would have selected it… yahoo really know how to alienate their customers…. I may start using Google.

By: Joe Crowell

Joe Crowell — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:46:46 +0000

Ya-Bing
I understand the need/desire to improve search however I think the database is caching the search terms (keywords) beyond the period that actual content exists. I’ve dealt with problem since search assist was introduced. I think if content no longer exist after two or more years then references along with “suggested terms” should be deleted especially when referring to private not public figures. Not only is this bad in performance terms but if no content exists for the relevant search terms say “bill clinton” and “john doe” … content which is specific and unique for those individuals (not one link with “doe” and “bill clinton”) but all the terms are found and relevant in each link. Also Yahoo should provide a central desk so that the public can request removal of “suggested search terms” which portray a person in a “false light”. I think Yahoo is functioning as a quasi-credit report background check database. The feds provide the public with ability to request removal of false information or damaging information in credit reports but I’m surprised that this issue has not yet surfaced with search assist. I would really appreciate it if your team took a closer look at this issue as it is difficult if not impossible to get someone in Sunnyvale to assist you. Thanks.

By: Joe Dohn

Joe Dohn — Sat, 03 May 2008 07:35:40 +0000

It has started!

Those “for your conveniance..” things!

Is yahoo taken over by microsoft already?

I too HATE the new “feature”, I too would like to know how to disable it forever and ever and ever.

And all those “for your protection” and “for your safety” things to come.

By: Layla

Layla — Fri, 02 May 2008 00:44:08 +0000

I HATE the new search assist feature, and as requested by someone in a prior comment, I would like to know how to disable it forever.

I, too, have Yahoo as my home page and I used to use it to search. Because I can’t disable it (except for the current visit, which means I have to have to turn if off time after time), I use Google now – a LOT.

Please give us a way to disable the frustrately annoying thing.

By: Ya-Bing

Ya-Bing — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:21:49 +0000

Hi there,
I’m the (new) Product Manager for Search Assist. Thanks for all of your comments – we’re definitely paying attention. We’re planning on making some changes to the settings very shortly – so I would love to hear your feedback once those roll out. Stay tuned!

Thanks,
Ya-Bing

By: tee nix

tee nix — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:52:56 +0000

please tell me how to get rid of search assist. i hate it and cannot turn it off except for the current visit to Yahoo home page. please tell me how to do it forever. yahoo is my home page and search home, but this is beyond annoying. disable should mean disable, not turn off for five seconds, then turn back on. Please fix it where disable means forever. thanks.

By: Addy Coleman

Addy Coleman — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:57:43 +0000

I think Search Assist was a very well thought out addition to Yahoo Search and a very helpful tool in both searching and search planning.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:43:55 +0000

I have to disable the Search Assist every day on every computer we own for business and personal use. I have tried to permenately disable the feature while signed in, and logged out. Yet, it reappears every day. It is a distraction, and it takes more time than I care to spend for something I never requested. I seems that Yahoo is more littered with each passing day. A clean uncluttered look is much easier to work with. You have the “did you mean” option in the event of a misspelled word. Search Assist is unnescessary. I have started using Google, but I would rather stick with Yahoo since that is where my email is. Please give me a break and help me get rid of Search Assist so I don’t have to notify all of my contacts of a change in email. I’ve been a loyal Yahoo user for years, and I hate to change. Thanks!

By: andy

andy — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:56:04 +0000

I really wish that there was a way to permanently disable the new “search assist” without having to be logged in. Also, having to do this twice, seemingly, is rather annoying. I have to first turn it off on the main page, then again when it “senses I’m struggling.” I’m actually considering switching my homepage to google, because even though it doesn’t have the same quality of news, I don’t have to undo a option I’ll never use every time I clear my privacy settings. As an aside rant… when will technology companies like microsoft and yahoo realize that their automation ideas waste more time than not? If I typed a lower-case “i,” as one minor example, I meant “i” 95% of the time. If I paused while typing an item in a search bar, it was because I was distracted not because I want it to guess what I’m thinking… I spend more time disabling these things than I care to think about.

By: Nige

Nige — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:46:47 +0000

It’s obvious yahoo doesn’t listen to it’s customers regarding the useless search results displayed when using yahoo search.Soon they’ll be on top of the scrap heap of useless browsers for messing about with peoples heads and preferences.RIP

By: tinman

tinman — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:15:35 +0000

please get rid of the yahoo search assistant…. It can’t be switched off….you click on the off button but it keeps coming back. It is annoying and frustrating. Also the link to email has disappeared from your page, another annoyance……Google is looking better and better these days….

By: Floyd

Floyd — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:24:54 +0000

OK, So, anyone who’s on here regularly knows I have an axe to grind with Yahoo, and I usually whine about their products a lot.

I used this Yahoo search thingee, and I have to say I was impressed. Simple, to the point interface, and a helpful drop down completion menu. Nice. I’m not sure it got me what I was seeking, but as a first impression, I was pleased. I may actually use it.

Thanks for shutting me up.

-Floyd

By: Holly Gunning

Holly Gunning — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:10:05 +0000

I use Yahoo for my email, which works fine, but I don’t use it for search, and I’ll tell you exactly why — the items that come up seem to be from like 3 or 4 years ago, not current. It’s like whatever was out on the internet FIRST is what gets picked up. It should be the opposite — whatever is the FRESHEST should come up.

Until this is fixed, I won’t be using Yahoo Search because it’s just not useful to me.

By: bob

bob — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:14:19 +0000

Hello, I have been utilizing many different search engines waiting to see who might step up and challenge Google and to date YAHOO is getting closer but still has a way to go.

I depend on Search Engnes to help me with Recruiting and I use them daily for many hours. I like the ‘improvements to YAHOO so keep up the effort!

The black background on the search assist is simply not conducive to those of us with vision problems. So please fix it or allow us to make those changes.I canot read the information under the currrent conditions.

Get rid of that YELLOW BOX…how annoying and tacky is that thing?

Do you ever offer Search Training classes on line for novices as well as advanced search folks?

Keep up the good work Google needs competition..are you really it?

Bob

By: Peggy

Peggy — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:43:08 +0000

Glad to see that someonw else doesn’t like that stupid yellow box that says Now With Built In Search Assist SEARCH BETTER TRY IT! I have used Search on YAHOO for years and don’t need to have a yellow box telling me to try it! I want it OFF my computer! And please change the black background on the search assit – I do not have visual problems but it is difficult to read. I am very close to changing my homepage.

By: Marcos

Marcos — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:47:20 +0000

I’m again. Okay, when people click on the right bar of browser to put down the page he torn the head to right side again, another point.
:)
Marcos

By: =bg=

=bg= — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:44:49 +0000

can you make that big yellow SEARCH BETTER TRY IT! thing disappear?

By: Raj

Raj — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:26:19 +0000

Mohammed. Thanks for your feedback. I’d suggest trying http://search.yahoo.com. It’s just search from Yahoo! and that’s it. And if you look at my reply to oh4real, if you use other Yahoo! properties you can jump right to them by typing a ! in front of their names. !mail goes to Yahoo! Mail, !news goes to Yahoo! News, etc.

Thanks,
Raj