Home Recent posts Popular posts Articles Categories Recent comments Downloads About this site

Yahoo! points to the Firefox search box

Written by Martin Belam
Published 22 April, 2006
Categories: Search, Yahoo

<< previous | next >>
1 comment so far
Add your comment

I don't know how long they've been doing it, but if you visit the Yahoo! homepage using Firefox, after a short while a large banner ad loads at the top of the page, pointing out that you can search Yahoo! directly from the search box built into the browser.

1. Look for the search box in the upper right corner of your browser.
2. Click on the small triangle in the search box.
3. Choose Yahoo!. You're done!

Yahoo!'s advert for the Firefox search toolbar

I guess Yahoo! may be a little sensitive that Firefox ships with Google in the #1 position as default search plug-in. I couldn't make up my mind whether it was a very clever piece of marketing dressed up as targeted contextual help, or whether Yahoo! had just shouted "Hey, Idiot!" at me.

Posted by Martin Belam, April 22, 2006
Read more posts on currybetdotnet about: Search, Yahoo

The views expressed on currybetdotnet are my own, and do not reflect the views of my current or former employers.

1 comment so far

Lee commented on April 23, 2006:

Of course that only makes sense for people* who haven't moved the search box to somewhere else in their toolbar...

* alright contrarian fiddlers like me.

Leave your comment

A limited set of HTML tags are allowed in comments: a href, strong, em, ul, li, blockquote
To protect against spam your comments will not appear on the site until I have manually published them.
Your email address will never appear on the site.

Your name

Your email

Your website URL

Please add your comment here

Alan Turing wouldn't be impressed with this crude test, but please prove you are a person and type toothpaste into the box below.

Subscribe via email or RSS

Download e-books

Measuring UK newspaper success with social media

About Martin Belam

I'm a London-based internet consultant and writer, with 8 years experience in product management, information architecture, and user experience design for global brands like Sony, Vodafone, The Guardian and the BBC. I specialise in advising on search, widgets, RSS, online news publishing and bulk email delivery.
Martin Belam CV
email: martin.belam@currybet.net
tel: +44 (0) 7801 828718
twitter: currybet
About Martin Belam and this site