An advanced search experience now on Answers
As a part of the recent changes to Yahoo! Answers, we will also be rolling out a few changes to the search experience over the next few days.
We’ve taken the feedback you’ve provided and have incorporated your comments to improve the current search experience. Through the new search experience, you’ll notice a new, re-designed layout on your search results page, making it easier to refine your search without having to leave the page.
New Search Results Page
1- We’ve taken all of the options which were previously available in Advanced Search and moved them to the left-hand-side of this page to make it easier to customize your search queries.
2 – The category dropdown has been re-structured to fit this new design.
3- For those of you who perform the same search regularly, we’ve also thought of you: we’ve replaced the `Make this my default search option` with the `My Saved Search` feature. `My Saved Search` allows you to save your favourite search so you can easily access the results from anywhere on Yahoo! Answers. By checking this box Answers will store your most frequent searches. You can then click on the `My Saved Search` link next to the `Search Answers` button to access your saved search from wherever you are on the site.
You can find out more about making the most of `My Saved Search` by checking out this help article
As with all of the changes we’re making at the moment we’d love to hear your feedback. Leave us a comment here on the blog or on the feedback thread on the Suggestion Board.
—Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers Team
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As the old saying goes, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
Well now you broke it! It’s bad.. seriously bad.
I’m sure like me a lot of Y!A regular contributors relied on the Advanced Search to quickly pick from a drop-down list of their favorite question topics to answer but the new “Saved Search” disables this option.
The old system was flawed but I could easily shortcut to open questions posted within 7 days so I was happy enough with it. The new system makes quick-searching impossible.
Hey Lord Darkclaw,
Thanks for your feedback on this, it’s been noted and a fix is being worked on. We hope this helps.
– Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers team
Thanks. The search feature is now truly useful, which it never was before – at least, I could never get it to work. Now you practically use it to design your own virtual category. Good work.
I want to salvage all the searches I had listed on my bookmarks. You had no business deleting my whole Bookmarks.
A couple of ways to make it even better though. It would be nice if we could specify which Answers domains to search on, like “All questions in English or Italian”. If that’s too difficult to arrange, could we have the option to set up 2 or 3 favourite searches?
What’s happened? Why do developers insist on changing things just for the sake of it? Put it back!