An advanced search experience now on Answers
As a part of the changes to the Answers homepage, we’re also rolling out a few changes to the search experience on Answers over the next few days. We’ve taken the feedback you’ve provided through the blogs, email accounts, Customer Care, as well as through the feedback links and the Suggestion Board and have incorporated your comments to improve the current search experience.
Through the new search experience, you’ll notice a new, re-designed layout on your search results page, making it easier to refine your search without having to leave the page.
The new answers search page
1- We’ve taken all of the options which were previously available in Advanced Search and moved them to the left-hand-side of this page to make it easier to customize your search queries.
2 - The category dropdown has been re-structured to fit this new design.
3- For those of you who perform the same search regularly, we’ve also thought of you: : we’ve replaced the “Make this my default search option” with the “My Saved Search” feature. “My Saved Search” allows you to save your favorite search so you can easily access the results from anywhere on Yahoo! Answers. By checking this box Answers will store your most frequent searches. You can then click on the “My Saved Search” link next to the “Search Answers” button to access your saved search from wherever you are on the site.
You can find out more about making the most of `My Saved Search` by checking out this help article.
As with all of the changes we’re making at the moment we’d love to hear your feedback. Leave us a comment here on the blog or on the feedback thread on the Suggestion board.
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I like the old search page, becase simple, the new seach page is unuseful, i think you go a wrong way.
You get a B+ for effort and you got up to bat. But you have two MAJOR strikes on you with these changes. If you don’t fix these, consider the changes a failure.
1. You do not give the user a chance to change the search terms without reseting everything. Put in “Am I pretty?” with USA only, 30 days, etc. That works. But to just change to “Am I ugly?”, you have not provided a way. The only option is to start over and change the search terms, do the general search, and then RESET all the limits (USA only, 30 days). It is resetting all those if you switch terms to the defaults. No a useful thing unless that is what you want. This is especially a pain if you use many words in the search and want to drop some without changing the limits. Also, reset category resets ALL the limits to default.
2. One of the MAJOR changes users have been begging and begging for is to fix the search time periods. Just to remind you, 7 days corresponds to NOTHING on YA. It is either 4 days or 8 days now. An users have been asking for multiple periods such as 1,2,4,8 days. All of the other periods are NOT useful. Who cares to limit the period to 30-60 days?
If you need help with these, don’t hesitate to email me. And last but not least, the search reults are still NOT sorted by time.
Sorry for the typos in the above comment. Too much passion.
A tab or button to sort by date, # answers, popular.
It would be great if the AS Results page could made to look more like the category listings pages, but even if not, the sorting options could still be atop the list.
A tab or button to sort by category, rather than restricting a search to a single category, or all, at a time.
Also an option to choose multiple categories per search.
Ability to save more than 1 search. 3 – 5 should be sufficient.
Option to choose 5 – 10 – 20 entries per page of results.
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I HATE the changes to the layout. The old green was nicer and easier on the eyes. Besides, I didn’t ever see anyone complaining about the old layout. Like they say, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
There were some comments. Are they being censored again?
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Maybe it’s a browser issue, but the search feature is completely broken now for me – the search results page format is completely garbled and you don’t seem able to sort the results by date (via &s=-date) any more.
Please, please, please bring back advanced search! The new system is completely useless and makes it impossible to run multiple searches without huge delays waiting for every option change to load.
How did it not occur to you that people would want to run multiple searches with the same settings (category, open) and different keywords??
I’m having all sorts of problems with the new search feature; otherwise, I like the new layout scheme. First, it does not save your search parameters, other than the settings on the side. I cannot have, say, a search on Baseball then one on Football. Second, while it saved my settings from just before this switch over, like the old search, I tried over and over again to set my time period to 7 days, and that never works, and I’ve applied it numerous times already. Third, even though I set it to 7 days, my first found item was something from 2 years ago. Fourth, like the old search, it does not give you an option to order by date, I assume it is doing by most related to the terms. And lastly, just like the old search, sometimes you return from a search and it loses your settings, so I have to refresh the page or go out then back into the search to reset back to my saved parameters.
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I like it (:
Good job.
You’ve destroyed the utility of almost 20 Bookmarked Advanced Searches, which I used almost daily, and provided no way of recreating them in the new Advanced Search.
Do your designers, analysts, and coders take no care whatsoever as to the “unintended consequences” of your changes to Answers?
I like the old one,for now I do not know how to use it.
Coz follow the searching questions steps ,i can not search the results I want.
I have tried for many times sice the new version appeared..
Would you like to write more things about the new version?
Thanks
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You must require only one user name ID on Y/A. If anyone tries to use someone else’s name that is already taken (for example, Tommy), they need to choose another user name. This will help prevent both confusion and abuse. I’ve spoken up on this matter already, and would like to see this take effect as soon as possible. Thank you.
This is AWFUL, not an improvement. This will, effectively, ensure that I do not participate in Yahoo! Answers anymore. Completely cumbersome and far less easy to use. After 15 minutes I still couldn’t search out open questions like I used to. Not worth the time or effort anymore.
NO I HATE THE CHANGES
I STOPPED GOING ON Y!A BECAUSE OF THEM, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE CHANGE IT BACK. I HATE THE NEW SEARCH! IT’S ALL SLOW & DIFFERENT. PLEASE CHANGE IT BACK.
I personally think that this is an un needed thing that they are adding to Y/A. I personally had no trouble searching qoestions and I also don’t really search other Questions because they usually don’t provide me with the info I am looking for. This is also a classic case of thying to improve the site but instead iy makes it worse. Who is going to be searching a question that is over 10 or so days old, and why not just ask your own to get the answers you want?
I personally think that this is an un needed thing that they are adding to Y/A. I personally had no trouble searching qoestions and I also don’t really search other Questions because they usually don’t provide me with the info I am looking for. This is also a classic case of thying to improve the site but instead it makes it worse. Who is going to be searching a question that is over 10 or so days old, and why not just ask your own to get the answers you want?
I completely agree with everyone that this new search is horrible. There definitely was nothing wrong with it before, and it worked perfectly before the change. I miss the old Y!A.
it’s horrible, it’s crap, it’s bad, its pathetic, it’s BS, it’s everything that is not good and that my friends is the new ‘improved (yeh right)’ yahoo answers search engine. The results of my search have nothing to do with what i searched. Bring back the old search for the good of everyone. Enough said.