Yahoo! Revamps Search

While it is not yet fully live, the new Yahoo! search is available today. The underlying databases, at least at this point, remain Google, internal Yahoo! content including their directory, and ads from Overture, but they have a new image database. The design and colors are new. Cache links (from Google but without a Google label) are now available for most results. Those without appear to come from a source other than Google. There is an icon for opening a new window, an advanced searched (which has more options and does a better job of field search choices than Google's advanced search), and customization via a preferences link with all of the Google preferences options (but only available for those with a Yahoo! account). The advanced search screen includes a link to a Froogle-like shopping search. The directory categories are still at the top, but they have been minimized further. See the Tour for details and the Yahoo! Shortcuts page for quick access to functions like maps, weather, define, news, and zip codes.