While on YA, do you also see the annoying Yahoo search box / panel at the top of the window?

Question

While on YA, do you also see the annoying Yahoo search box / panel at the top of the window?

Answer 1

Yes.

It sucks.

Answer 2

All of these sections would benefit from use of them.

Very many questions have been asked hundreds of times, when a simple search would have produced several times more answers than asking again.

What annoys me about it is nobody uses it much. Not nearly enough.

Answer 3

I like it, actually. Not because of the search function, but because it also displays my inbox status off to the right; whether or not I have any messages. As somebody who likes to communicate with people on Y!A a lot, that's not so bad.



Besides, does one really need that much "visible" space on YA? Are the inane ramblings of religious nutters that important to have all in one visible part of the screen? I would actually argue that is unhealthy, being exposed to that much insanity, and this new scheme is actually going to improve your mental health.

Answer 4

I agree that it is very annoying. I tried to see if I could disable it as a frame, but it does not seem to be one.



Jea is right, though. People do pointlessly ask the same questions time and time again.



Edit: As another user has now pointed out, the frame does not appear if you log in using a different English-speaking nationality. (Click one of the flags below.)

Answer 5

Between sponsored results, yahoo answers team sponsored questions, and this new search box annoyance.... pretty soon people will start leaving in droves...



Ahhhh who am I kidding?

Answer 6

Right now I only see it with IE10 in W8. It's never been there with Chrome or Firefox, I think they're experimenting with it.



EDIT. Looks like it's here to stay. Now I get it in all 3 browsers. lol.

Answer 7

If when you start typing, and yet another word indicates up, maintain typing and the word will dissapear. If you wish to delete your historical past, sort in Ctrl+H. You're going to see a list that claims "in these days", "the day past", and many others. Delet all these classes. You probably have web 7 Beta, go to "tools" and click on on "delete shopping history. A record will exhibit up and click Delete on any of the gadgets you want long gone. PS: frequently a search bar,like the new Yahoo tool bar has a clear button

Answer 8

I can understand that some people find it annoying, I don't mind.

Answer 9

You cannot, it's part of the yahoo system, only yahoo gets to decide when to get rid of it.

Answer 10

it IS very annoying. While I use Yahoo Answers, ..to search for something IN Yahoo Answers, it is MUCH more effective to use Google than it is to use Yahoo search.



Don't believe me? Compare them for yourself. I have done it repeatedly and repeatedly for things I know are somewhere in Yahoo Answers..I'll get ..does not return any matches

but I use the same search terms in Google and voila..there it is.

Same with Bing.

I type the same search terms into all 3 and the Google always comes up with more matches or the things I am looking to find precisely...when Bing and Yahoo often find nothing or take me to things that have nothing to do with anything I entered..that's the most ridiculous



however..all 3 search engines do that from time to time



Those Bing ads make me want to puke..people just pick the pretty pictures on the TV commercials.



When I have taken their "challenge"..every time I've chosen Google.

I don't like things Google does..but so far, they are the best search engine I've used.

That Yahoo bar at the top is just another annoyance of Yahoo..they keep making "improvements" that aren't imporving anything and they keep ignoring longstanding problems



the worst of which is failure to appropriately remove egregious hate speech when several users report it and give clear objective evidence that it IS hate speech ( examples..the fake Talmud hate libels and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion used to incite hate to Jews and have historically been used to justify murder and genocide..Yahoo often REFUSES to remove..and Yahoo REFUSES to consider it a violation when a user is called a KIKE..when Jews from at least 9 contries have written to Yahoo for at least six years telling them its as equally offensive as the N word they appropriately censor and consider violation)

Answer 11

I see it. It doesn't bother me. I'm not sure you can get rid of it.