Yahoo to launch Search Direct in India

Yahoo is all set to unveil its latest search offering 'Search Direct' in India by the second half of this calendar, said a top official of Yahoo.

Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo's chief scientist, senior vice-president and head (Yahoo Labs) said the Nasdaq-listed digital media company has already rolled out the public beta version of Search Direct in the US last week.

"The new search engine predicts search results as fast as a person types -- character by character, and presents those results dynamically, generating a fast, simple search experience that goes beyond mere blue links," Raghavan told media persons. He said it (Search Direct) follows a theme ... a theme that the company has been pursuing ever since they forged a search alliance with Microsoft."