Yahoo Search Suggest feature launched

Internet company and online searching service Yahoo has announced the launch of a new tool named Search Suggest.

The company said that this new tool has been designed to provide a “faster way to find what you’re looking for.”

The feature provides automatic suggestions to keywords a user is typing into the Yahoo Search Box.

Yahoo is hoping that this new feature would help the user shorten the time it takes to search for something.

A company spokesperson said in a blog post that the feature provides a faster way to get what you’re looking for.

Incidentally, this feature is not entirely new to the Yahoo searching tools. They had already implemented such a feature to the Yahoo Toolbar in Firefox. It also works on Firefox 2 if a user has selected Yahoo as the search engine in the search box.

Yahoo’s Kevin Lee added in a blog post: “Let’s say I’m trying to keep up with our illustrious ‘governator’ here in California. I type ‘arnold s’ in the search box and the suggestions pop up Arnold Schwarzenegger, which saves me from trying to spell out his last name. Or, I’m watching TV and wonder what song is in the background of a commercial that just came on. Problem is that I only remember part of the company name, ‘journey diamond.’ I type it into our new search box, and ‘journey diamond jewelry commercial song’ is suggested right away — problem solved.”

Fortunately, this feature can be disabled by the user in case it becomes an hindrance to the whole process of searching on the web.