Another Yahoo! Search UI Change

Yahoo! has made a major change to the links to databases above the search box. For the past several months since Yahoo!'s major redesign to their home page, the options above the search box included Web, Images, Video, Audio, Directory, Local, News, Shopping, and More. The More was not terribly helpful, leading to the Yahoo! Tools page with lists of various Yahoo! services but not other Yahoo! databases. I found it frustrating if I was trying to transfer a search to their people or subscriptions search.

With Google's change so that their "more" brought up a new menu with a few additions, Yahoo! has followed suit, although I like their design a bit better. Now, the choices above the search box have narrowed to Web, Images, Video, Local, and Shopping. News, Audio, Directory are gone. However, click the More and a drop down menu provides News, Audio, Directory, Jobs, and Answers. It also has a link to "All Search Services" which is a list of searchable databases rather than all sorts of Tools like the old link. I think this is a positive change, though I'd rather see News and Directory on the top rather than Video or Shopping. I also wish that a Maps search (rather than just Local) was available from the new drop down menu. If you prefer the old interface, just use the search.yahoo.com version instead.