Until tonight I missed the Aug 18 upgrade for Yahoo Toolbar for IE (you have to just download over the top of your existing Y! toolbar, as the site doesn’t say a word), via Yahoo search blog:

Good news: We heard the feedback, and the latest version of the Yahoo! Toolbar for Internet Explorer now supports Y!Q (integrated along with other cool features, such as saving to My Web and Y! Music Engine controls). Install the latest Yahoo! Toolbar, select several words from the web page you’re reading, and you’ll see an actuator icon. Select the “Search” menu item and you’ll get contextual search results.

That acuator think seems pretty slick but I need to run many more tests to see how accurate/useful the search results are. Just copy a section of text and see what it turns for Y! search results (too bad you couldn’t dump it to any search engine, but that’s probably wishful thinking hoping for a customization option like that). It is sort of a twist on searching.

I’ve enjoyed using the whole Yahoo! My Web way of dealing with bookmarks as tags. It seems a shame that only 110,387 documents have been tagged for ‘everybody’ I’m just one lone user and I’ve managed to tag 181 URLs to date– most of which are for everybody. That cache the page feature is sweet. All around, Yahoo keeps moving on up (a Jefferson’s reference) in my book.

Oh, and we finally got accepted into the Yahoo Publishing Network, so now we are starting testing on Webmaster Cookbook. Jowl and I will be talking more about YPN on tomorrow’s live show / podcast. We put our request in on the day it was announced beta, so if you submitted on the same day — August 3 — keep watching for the acceptance email with the code to setup an account. Code is only good for setting up one account.

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