Yahoo China Relaunch Yisou Search Service

Written by Tangos on March 30, 2007
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YisouYahoo China will relaunch its Yisou search service, but in a different Chinese name.

Before Yahoo China was acquired by Alibaba in 2005, Yahoo China run a separated search only site Yisou (一搜). Yisou terminated its operation in late 2005 after acquisition. In August 2006, Yahoo China unveiled Yahoo.cn to provide search service. Now, Yahoo China plans to relaunch Yisou under a new Chinese name (易搜).

You may remember, we reported a search service called Easysou, which is developed by Yahoo’s Engineers. So if you compare new Yisou with Easysou, you will know new Yisou is based on Easysou. Yisou has an innovative user interface, the search results is tabbed and ajax-powered. In web search, it will adjust the number of search results in a page automatically according to resolution rate of your monitor, then you need not pagedown or scroll the screen to read all the results, that’s quite useful. But its tab design has its shortcomings, for example, Yisou now can only return 10 page results. In case you haven’t found results in first 10 pages, sorry, Yisou can not provide more results for you.

On the right sidebar, it shows related search keywords, thumbnails of images search results and music search results. Music search results can be played directly without leaving the page.

Why Yahoo China want to operate two search engines in China? Maybe Yisou will be an experimental search engine to test Yahoo China’s innovation on search technology and/or UI, and Yahoo.cn is still its main search engine for consumers.

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