While searching for a future topic for Tools For Thought, we happened to stumble upon the Yahoo! News Topics page.
Yahoo! News Topics provides an alternative solution to searching for news content.
Rather than asking users to enter keywords in the query search box, Yahoo News Topics is a directory of subjects that can be browsed through. Figure 1 is the index page of the news source.
Figure 1: Yahoo! News Topics Index
As users find a topic of interest, a simple mouse click is needed on the keyword to access relevant news content. Figure 2 illustrates the page of results once the keyword, “Google” is clicked upon.
Figure 3: Results For Google on Yahoo! News Topics
Each subject has news content via:
- News aggregators
- Videos
- Local news sources
- Blogs
- Photos
Yahoo! News Topics is available at news.yahoo.com/topics
Here is a tip for those who can not get enough breaking news especially if it is related to economic development.
Yahoo now provides breaking news content in the form of videos, photographs and tweets. Figure 1 illustrates the result’s page for the search query, “Obama”.
Figure 1: Yahoo Search Query For “Obama” With Latest News Tabs
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You will notice that on the top of the page, Yahoo provides four tabs (highlighted in green) with the labels, “News”, “Photos”, “Videos” and “Twitter”. Clicking on the “Twitter” tabs allows access to the tweets shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Results From Twitter For The Query, “Obama”
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It is important to note that these tabs will only appear for breaking news stories. A test with the keywords “foreign direct investment” will just provide you with results as seen in Figure 3:
Figure 1: Yahoo Search Query For “Foreign Direct Investment” With No Latest News Tabs
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Yahoo is available at www.yahoo.com
