INTERNETS, 18th of January 2012. PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Over a century ago Thomas Edison got the patent for a device which would "do for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear". He called it the Kinetoscope. He was not only amongst the first to record video, he was also the first person to own the copyright to a motion picture. Because of Edisons patents for the motion pictures it was close to financially impossible to create motion pictures in the North american east coast. The movie studios therefor relocated to California, and founded what we today call Hollywood. The reason was mostly because there was no patent. There was also no copyright to speak of, so the studios could copy old stories and make movies out of them - like Fantasia, one of Disneys biggest hits ever.
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New Yahoo! Search Experiences for Recipes, Shopping and More!
- Posted November 15th, 2011 at 9:07 pm by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: News/Announcements, Search
Today, we are excited to present new Yahoo! Search experiences – just in time for the holidays! We are introducing rich, interactive results right on top of the search results page for recipes, shopping and entertainment searches. And as you plan your Thanksgiving and holiday meals, we are providing you with a new Recipe Search, a tab on the search results page or available at recipes.search.yahoo.com.New Recipe results
Spend less time looking for new recipes and more time making your newfound creations. Browse through images of the best and highest rated recipes from top culinary sources on the web.
Just search on Yahoo! for a food item + recipes (for example: “apple recipes” or “artichoke recipes”) and a window will appear on top of the search results page with top popular choices from leading food sites. Scroll through the recipe ideas, share recipes with your Facebook friends and click the tabs for filtered results such as “quick recipes” for less than 30 minutes cook time.
Dietary restrictions? You can filter by ingredients to spend less time searching and more time cooking. Simply click on ‘Filter by Ingredient’ and select the ingredient you want to include or avoid.
Yahoo! Recipe Search Tab
If you want to narrow down the results of recipes, sort by preparation time, star rating, diet, meal type, occasion, or source, click on the ‘Recipes’ tab on the search results page for the new Recipes Search.
Sometimes you have 30 minutes to whip up a meal, other times you are looking for a great turkey recipe, or ideas on what to do with the leftovers. Or perhaps you may want side dish ideas for a school potluck, or holiday dessert ideas to impress your in-laws. With the new recipe search tab, you can easily find all of this and more.
Click the new Recipes search tab for a page full of ideas, with a left tab full of new filters for ingredients you want and don’t want, total cooking time, rating, diet (including choices such as low calorie, low carb, low sodium and low cholesterol), meal type, occasion and source.
New Shopping Results
Get started on your holiday shopping with a new, rich shopping window at the top of the search results page. Search for a product or category, like watches or cameras, and then easily compare products, find coupons and deals, and check out helpful buying guides. No need to visit and compare multiple products across multiple sites –select up to five products and let us do the comparison for you. Find key information, such as prices, specifications, and warranty information.
Similar to recipe search, you can also share products with your friends. Login to your Facebook account, and instantly ask your friends what they think!
Updated Entertainment results
The new entertainment results on Yahoo! Search present you with immediate answers about your favorite movies, music artists, celebrities and news stories. To read latest news, watch a popular video, or even see what people are saying in the Twittersphere, find it all in one convenient place within Yahoo Search.
With our new query experiences, you can browse through deep content and quickly scan the most important information, like cooking time or price. No more searching on several sites and reading through endless content and results. Find exactly what you’re looking for before you’ve even left the search results page.
Please check out the enhancements by doing a few searches on search.yahoo.com, and let us know what you think.
– Caroline Tsay and the Yahoo! Search Product Management team: Marc Davis, Paul Ko, Carrie Lin, Irene Lin, Libby Lin, Ray Louie, and Saniye Zainab.
Dreams and Reality
Anybody who visits this site realizes that it’s an aggregator of my favorite blog posts. I don’t normally post here. But today I have to rant. Not at anything in particular, more at myself.
I’m sure you’ve had this happen to yuo – everyone does. You wake up from a dream, whether in the middle of the night or in the morning and think to yourself “that’s a great idea, I should write that down” only to realize that you a) don’t have a pen or paper next to you or, b) realize it’s too dark to see to write it or c) by the time you solve a) and b) you’ve forgotten the idea.
Well that happened to me last night.
You see, we’ve been having issues with our websites. I think someone is trying to hack or DOS us, so our sites have been suffering. Not going down, just really slow. And when they get slow, I get IM’s emails and text messages on my phone. So imagine my (lack of) surprise when my cell phone rang it’s annoying “you have a new text” chime at 4 AM.
Of course I was deep asleep and (sad enough) dreaming about work. You know it’s bad when you even dream about work meetings.
Anyways, in my dream I had one of those great ideas, but as usual, no pen or paper nearby so I made a mental note to remember it. Sometimes this works for me but today, sadly it did not.
I remember bits of the “idea”. It had to do with tracking visitors that come to our site and how they use it – what pages they view, how long etc. (I know – lame. But like I said – was work related). I also remember it was a simple idea – something we could implement very easily for little cost and overhead and it would provide us a wealth of information.
Now, I know what you are saying – it’s my fault for not keeping that pen and paper on my night stand, but in my defence I must tell you that I have done that in the past – kept the pen and paper nearby. And I have even used it, only to wake the next morning to chicken scratch which is impossible to decipher, or something like “red tomoatoes”. WTF??? Could it be any more cryptic? Obviously I knew what I meant at 3 AM but in the light of day – not so much.
So here I sit, at my desk at work (yes I’m writing this at work. Shh don’t tell my boss. Or better yet – do tell. Maybe then I won’t have to hear my cell phone go off in the morning ever again) trying to remember this great idea.
And why is that? The harder you try, the further away the idea seems to get? It’s like the friggin’ thing has legs and knows I’m in pursuit and says “Uh uh – you’re not going to catch me that easy”.
So that’s my rant – I do feel a little better now, but still don’t remember that great idea. Too bad cause I think there were a few of them in the “meeting”.
