Yahoo is also responding to the challenges posed by search refinements being carried out by its competitors. So, it just introduced a refinement to its Image Search service by way of what it calls as travel image refiner. This sort of acts as a virtual navigator to travel spots if you search for them on Yahoo Image Search.
The Yahoo Travel Image Refiner allows users to explore various points of interest related to specific travel areas including contextual information about these destinations.
It’s a pretty simple search filter enhancement actually. So when a user enters the search term “Paris”, the search results page will include a navigation link on the left of the page listing down various points of interest related to the main search.
Clicking on the travel image refiner will pull out various images related to the specific points of interest. From there users can explore the different images and get a sort of virtual tour of the travel area. Clicking on images from other sites will bring up a framed page with the top frame containing the Yahoo Image exploration tab and the lower frame containing the page where the image was culled from. Users also have the option to turn off the upper Yahoo tab anytime.
The Yahoo Image Refiner currently works with location-specific searches but Yahoo is planning to roll it out with other types of images soon.
Good to see things keep moving at Yahoo!
Don’t count them out yet…
Between their aquisition of Xoopit and this new feature with Travel Images, Yahoo is doing a lot of interesting things with photos on the web. It’s interesting how Flickr (a Yahoo property) is not mentioned in any of these official announcements.
Yes, good information about Yahoo
“The Yahoo Image Refiner currently works with location-specific searches “
It seems to work pretty well despite being basic, it just seems to add the four must popular next words used in a search string.
It was a great post.
Very nice . Keep the good work going yahoo.