{"id":164,"date":"2007-04-05T23:04:46","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T13:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/2007\/04\/05\/alpha-beta-search\/"},"modified":"2007-04-05T23:15:33","modified_gmt":"2007-04-05T13:15:33","slug":"alpha-beta-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/2007\/04\/05\/alpha-beta-search\/","title":{"rendered":"alpha (beta) search"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The web is so large<br \/>\nAlmost boundless in its scope<br \/>\nEmphasis: \"Almost\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>- A No-Results-Found message by alpha (beta) search<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/au.alpha.yahoo.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/au.yimg.com\/i\/search\/fed\/logo-alpha_1_3a.gif\" alt=\"alpha (beta)\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 8px; border: 0;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo7.com.au\">Yahoo!7<\/a> (An Australian and New Zealand Yahoo!) has released a web 2.0 aggregated search engine called <a href=\"http:\/\/au.alpha.yahoo.com\/\">alpha<\/a>.   I know what you are thinking, because I was thinking the same thing too; Yahoo! has already got a search engine which is one of the most commonly used in the world, so why alpha (beta) <del datetime=\"2007-04-05T12:18:57+00:00\">gamma<\/del> search?  <\/p>\n<p>The difference here is that alpha (beta) search is an aggregated search in web 2.0  style, and it categories results from various sources into different sections; the default ones being Yahoo!7 Web Search, Flickr, Yahoo!7 Answers, YouTube, Yahoo!7 News, and Wikipedia.  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