Yahoo tries to catch up with Google (AndhraCafe)

“San Francisco, Oct 3 (DPA) Yahoo Inc. has unveiled a new internet search technology in a bid to close the gap on search leader Google, but executives at Yahoo admitted that the best they could hope for was to 'chip away' at their rival's lead.

The new Yahoo Search, previously codenamed Panama, was launched Tuesday and introduces features like 'universal search', which automatically includes different content types in search results.

Results pages now include embedded video, photos from Yahoo's extensive Flickr collection and results that are customised for specific types of searches, such as those for celebrities, musical artists and news.

The service now sports an attractive drop-down box called search assist that appears as users type, offering spelling fixes and search suggestions based on what's being typed.”