Music At Your Finger Tips…Thanks To Yahoo!

jlove — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:39:38 +0000

Yahoo! is trying to make a come back! We’ve seen video’s appearing in our search results, but what about music? Yahoo! has enabled its search results to deliver full length songs when you search for an artist thanks to Yahoo!’s partnership with Rhapsody. The first result will include a photo of the artist with a short list of songs as well as links to lyrics, music video, and other related content. The music videos play in a window on top your current page so you are not directed to another web page. I appreciate the simplicity and thank you for not bombarding me with “Buy This Song” ads. The full length music tracks plays at the bottom of the screen after you click the play button of the song you would like to hear. This functionality allows you to continue to scroll through the search results, although the track will stop if you click through to another web page. I have to admit, I might be searching on Yahoo! a little more often now, especially when I need a music fix.

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Source: InformationWeek.com

Consumer Satisfaction Soars on Google

Paul — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:48:00 +0000

As reported on AdAge, Google leads in search satisfaction. Satisfaction increased a whopping 10.3 percent in this year’s American Consumer Satisfaction Index. It looks like Google’s efforts to improve the user experience through universal search and personalization have paid off. Other factors like being named ubiquitously in the news doesn’t hurt, either.

Other search engines remained stable or declined slightly. AOL gained (3 percent), Yahoo! and Ask dropped (2.5% and 1.3%, respectively), and MSN remained the same.
This year’s survey gives the highest satisfaction score to Google (86), with other portals trailing. Yahoo!’s score was 77; MSN’s, 75; Ask’s, 74 and AOL’s, 69.

Conducted by the University of Michigan and ForeSee, the American Consumer Satisfaction Index began their annual consumer satisfaction surveys 14 years ago.
The report notes its consumer satisfaction data correlates with market share data from Hitwise. In June, Google had 69.2 percent market share, up from June last year at 63.9 percent.

ForeSee President Larry Freed attributes the big gain to word of mouth about many of Google’s non search products. “On one hand, there’s a simple and basic interface to search,” said Freed. “But Google is also known as an innovative company and has other great apps that are slowly starting to gain market share. … As they launch these things, sometimes it takes a while until users get to know it.”

Source: AdAge
Source: SearchEngineLand

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Music At Your Finger Tips…Thanks To Yahoo!

Consumer Satisfaction Soars on Google