Yahoo! Introduces IE8 with Instant Visual Results

March 21st, 2009 | RSS Feed

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Yesterday, Yahoo! released an optimized version of IE8. The new version includes three new categories of instant visual results – Weather, Movie Reviews and Showtimes, and Stock Quotes. The moment you type a query in any of these categories, you'll find all the related information in the instant visual results.

To understand the topic better try the following example: Just type “weather Santa Clara, CA.” The instant visual results will display a three day weather forecast for Santa Clara.

The Yahoo! Search Assist will continue to provide instant text suggestions to users below the visual suggestions. To experience this new feature download a Yahoo! optimized version of Internet Explorer 8.

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Amey Says:
March 22nd, 2009 at 02:55
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seo Hints Says:
March 23rd, 2009 at 14:19
Great information !! is given on the board !! thanks for that !
keith Says:
March 24th, 2009 at 08:45
Great information, I am not a fan of IE8 as I feel it is not secure and it has many disadvantages to firefox, but it is cool that yahoo did this. Thanks for the read!
Evan Says:
March 24th, 2009 at 08:46
This is great information, thanks for all of this!