Yahoo Boasts Lightning-Fast Search Experience

Yahoo believes that conducting searches on the Web involves too much of all of these tasks and has unveiled Search Direct, its new faster-than-fast search product, which is clearly an answer to Google Instant. Search Direct search results appear automatically as a user begins to type a query—just below Yahoo’s traditional search box.

A user searching for information on Hong Kong, for example, will see a list of a dozen potential searches, along with the local time, a list of things to do and links to local hotels and flight information—all before they’ve finished typing the word “Hong.”