When Yahoo’s not busy fending off the amorous advances of Microsoft, it’s quietly testing new search engine features.
Over at the Yahoo Search Marketing Blog, the company has revealed the limited testing of favicons in its search ads. They look something like this:
Don’t go rushing to YSM to activate your own favicon. Yahoo is appears to be running the test with just a small set of well known brands–which likely isn’t your company.
What do you think of the favicons?
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MMO Pinoy Says:
May 8th, 2009 at 10:38 am
This is a cool new feature for Yahoo! Can’t wait to see this one.
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May 8th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
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Joshua Dorkin Says:
May 8th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
It’s a great idea . . . I’m actually surprised that neither they, nor Google thought if it before. The move is a great exercise in promoting site branding, IMO
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mark Says:
May 8th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
It’s a small feature, but it makes the results look nicer. Maybe site previews like the GooglePreview extension for firefox is next?
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