With Yahoo! being forgotten with all these new “universal” search engines like Google and Ask.com, it relaunched with a new, slicker, search engine. And it’s fantastic.

You do a search and you get the results. Bland. But then you try and refine your search, this is where one of the bigger changes is made. You click on the little down arrow or start typing some more and suggestions will appear,

There are two things here. Search suggestions, and search “concepts.” The suggestions work as any other search engine these days, you click and it searches. Concepts append the words to the end of the current search term. Cool thing about the concepts is that the page doesn’t reload, it replaces the previous search results.

It has other tricks up it sleeve, which I think beats Google’s “Universal” search. Say you stumble across a YouTube video. Google will show you a thumbnail, but Yahoo! will show you a thumbnail that will make the video appear below the search result.

If you search for a music artist, it will give you a box at the top, with a link to the official website and if available some music previews, which once again play right there.

Sometimes it will integrate with Flickr, but that seems to be a bit hit-and-miss as usual. It has all the neat little Google tricks, like currency conversion and (what I just found out) time telling.

I’ll keep this as my default for now.