Yahoo has come along with some much improved search experience ideas. I like the contextual items that are brought back in the Yahoo search results. In addition it is a nice touch to allow me to navigate thorough all the items with my arrow keys.

Patrick focuses on the search of a famous person: Tony Bennett to see what kind of results appear.

"Ask.com lived up to my expectation based on the good showing they had at SES San Jose. Their top box result had a short bio with links to a full biography, songs, and more. A short scroll down on the right side of the screen yielded images, music clips, video clips and even an encyclopedia result. I'm not sure I'll need to know anything more about Tony Bennett after the Ask.com experience.

In my opinion Yahoo and Ask definitely gave me the most relevant and rich results. Granted, I was looking for a rich media Universal Search experience, but I'd be curious as to how many people searching on musical artists wouldn't be. MSN came in a distant third and Google a very distant fourth. Is this indicative of all searches? Absolutely not. But, I was surprised to be that happy with Yahoo and surprised to see how far some search engines need to go in providing a better user experience."

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