Wednesday 27 January 2010

AutoSuggest Updates – Bing vs Yahoo

Bing has now caught-up with the search game with an improved and better autosuggest. When you type a query term, it will start adding some breaking news and popular related queries. It is still a little too early to say that it is now as good as Google, the autosuggest is still on its earliest stage of collecting information.

Bing Auto Suggest

Bing Auto Suggest

With Regards to search results, Bing has also now put out different categories of results below the top 5 of its regular results. This entirely different way of displaying results will definitely affect how the SEO-ers would strategise for this search engine. Obviously, powering reviews of your product, images, videos and have Wikipedia profile became crucial.

Bing Search Results

Bing Search Results

Yahoo on the other hand has even more interesting auto-suggest and how it display its results. The “explore concept” section of the auto suggest pretty much take on all the keywords around the term “crop jacket” on the search result.

Yahoo Auto Suggest

Yahoo Auto Suggest

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