Yahoo Drops Live Search Into Firefox 2.0

The newest beta candidate of the Firefox 2.0 web browser has been online for only a day, but Yahoo has already made one of its technologies available to it. It...is...alive! A Live Search, that is, available from Yahoo for Live Search may be viewed at the AlltheWeb search engine, now owned by Yahoo. When using Yahoo Search in the top-right search box on Firefox 2.0, a list of suggested completions for what has been typed will appear below the search box. (Here's a secret tip for you, dear reader. The search suggestions also appear for Google and Answers.com when they have been selected as the engine for the Firefox 2.0 search box.) The user can then click on one of those Live Search suggestions to initiate the search for that term. Yahoo fans who have tried out the company's Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark Murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.