September 17, 2004

If you choose to enable it, a toolbar icon will display the Web Rank™ value for the URL that you are currently visiting, if that value is in fact available.

Web Rank’s cool new features
I had time to experiment with Yahoo’s new toolbar and discovered some cool new features. One of them is what Yahoo calls “Recent Searches”. This feature is a pull down menu of your last 30 search terms through Yahoo Companion. At the time I tested it, 12 query terms were directly visible and I could access an additional 18 with the scroll bar.

According to Yahoo, no information is ever sent back to any of their servers on any of your recent searches. If, for privacy reasons or otherwise, you want to turn off “Recent Searches”, you can do it at any time by selecting the 'Clear Recent Searches' under the "Toolbar Settings" button. That button has a small picture of a pencil on it to better help you find the button.

The Recent Searches feature can be disabled entirely by deselecting the menu item called 'Enable Recent Searches' through the "Toolbar Settings" menu. This action will delete all the recent search terms in the client and disable the feature.

Other features and benefits to searchers
Yahoo’s new Web Rank™ algorithm has even more features. It can also provide the following important benefits to its users:

1) It will help Yahoo identify critical new trends and usage habits in Internet activity, in an effort to better enhance the quality and relevance of the products and services people are searching on.

2) It will also help Yahoo to correctly identify new websites faster, and then add these newer sites into its search index, resulting in more relevant results and significantly improved overall search results.

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President & CEO,
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