Yahoo! unveiled a new search page design Wednesday as part of the struggling Internet pioneer’s effort to ramp up competition with Google.<\/p>\n
“Whether you’re searching for that perfect summer vacation spot or a nearby Ethiopian restaurant, finding what you’re looking for should be fast and easy,” Yahoo! Search vice president Laurie Mann said in a blog post.<\/p>\n
“And, we think that it can also be beautiful. Today we’re excited to introduce a new, modern design for Web search in the US that puts your results front and center.”<\/p>\n
Mann said the new design places search results higher on the page and includes “some under-the-hood performance improvements,” which will mean faster page loads.<\/p>\n
“We’re also introducing a new navigation bar at the top of the page so you can easily browse other Yahoo! sites. Over time, we’ll be rolling out the navigation bar across more Yahoo! properties.”<\/p>\n
A survey by comScore found Google held a 66.5 percent market share, followed by Microsoft with 17.3 percent and Yahoo! with 12.0 percent in April.<\/p>\n
Yahoo! inked a 10-year alliance with Microsoft in 2009 to have Bing handle the heavy lifting of mining and indexing the vast array of online data, leaving the California-based firm to customize results for users.<\/p>\n
Yahoo!, which is struggling to reinvent itself after being eclipsed as the ruling Internet search platform, named former Google executive Marissa Mayer as its chief executive last July.<\/p>\n
Mayer managed some of Google’s most successful innovations and influenced an array of the company’s most recognized features, such as its globally popular search engine and uncluttered home page.<\/p>\n
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