Yahoo India launches Glue Pages Beta

Yahoo India has launched a new concept called ‘Glue Pages‘ for users of Yahoo India search. ‘Glue pages’ aggregates text, images, video from across the web in various verticals like health, sports, entertainment, travel etc. and presents a ‘visual’ search results page. The goal is to provide a broad coverage of search results across a variety of information sources.

For example, a search for ‘diabetes’ gives you results from WebMD, HowStuffWorks, Yahoo Groups, Google Blog search, Yahoo Answers etc. Regular search results, of course, are also included.

As the beta evolves, the goal is to create topical pages built and maintained by subject matter experts. This concept is currently live only on the Yahoo India page and probably will be rolled out elsewhere, depending on the results observed for Yahoo India.

As content gets more distributed across various silos on the web, such a search definitely has its uses. For instance, Yahoo Groups and Yahoo Answers have a wealth of information, which, sometimes dont reflect towards the top of the search results. But then, it also puts forth the question – if I am searching for ‘diabetes’, I would first go and search in WebMD about ‘diabetes’ – why would I go searching for ‘dibetes’ on Glue pages when such a good vertical for health topics already exists ?

None the less, Yahoo is finally waking up from its slumber and innovating — its a good sign. Lets see how well Glue pages is received by the public.

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