About
the Book
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The main purpose of the Yahoo! to the Max portion of the Extreme Searcher Website is to keep readers of Yahoo! to the Max updated on what's new and different on Yahoo!. Topics selected for inclusion here are ones deemed to be of interest and use to users of Yahoo! and to readers of the book.
This page purposely does not cover things about the "company" side of Yahoo! (what companies it has bought, what partnerships it has formed, what its stock is doing, etc.). This page is intended for users of Yahoo!.
Items are generally kept brief. Unlike reading Yahoo! press releases about new features, here I do not want you to have to wade through hype and fluff and have to exert unnecessary effort in sorting out the useful facts. I try to get directly to the point and focus on the information that is of use in actually using Yahoo!.
On the other hand, some items need to be fairly lengthy in order to fully convey what you can do with a feature and how you do it (for example, the item on Yahoo! Personal Search).
The date you will see for each item is either the date on which the change was announced by Yahoo!, or when the change was first noticed.
Things generally will not be covered here until they are really available to the typical Yahoo! user. The much-talked-about Yahoo! 360 will be covered when it is fully available, not while it is just usable by selected "testers". Many of the things you will see here though, are still "in Beta", a term which has become somewhat meaningless in the search engine world, since Google especially, and Yahoo! to some extent, tend to keep things in Beta far into their history. To the degree to which Beta means "still being debugged", on the other hand, "Beta" could indeed apply to most of what we see in this realm. (I myself am still in "Beta", not fully de-bugged. Just ask my wife.)
If you discover something
significant that I have missed, let me
know.