If you want a fast way to search locally or globally, try the new Yahoo! Search with Search Assist. Search Assist offers suggestions to help you focus your search, and the ability to “Explore Concepts” which lets you drill down for even more ways to streamline your results.

Let’s take an example: Searching “Denver movie times” on the new Yahoo! yields the standard SERPs page, and a collapsible and expandable window (see small arrow to the bottom left of the search box area) that includes the following:

Suggestions:

· esquire denver movie times

· mayan theater denver movie times

· denver movie times mayan

· denver movie times theaters

· amc denver movie times

· continental theater denver movie time

· downtown denver movie times

· denver movie times amc

· denver movie times hostel

To the right of the suggestion box you see “Explore Concepts: denver movie times +”:

* movie theaters denver colorado
* showtimes fort collins
* denver post cinemas
* moviefone denver area

* denver co genre
* tickets 1hr 30min
* dvds 1hr 45min
* drama comedy

Search Assist can be turned off and Yahoo! has built it so it only turns on when it thinks that the user is having trouble formulating a query. The Suggestions and “Explore Concepts” panes allow for fast drill down and suggest queries that users might not have thought of.

Yahoo! says in its Yahoo! Search Blog that they have purposely aligned the search box to the left of the SERPs page to aid users in finding results fast, and they have made it easy to get a dedicated video search page for any topic by following this query format, where you search a phrase, and a particular video site, for example: “movie trailers” site:truveo.com

Whether you’re looking for a local movie or want to find the best rate on a hotel in Paris, Yahoo! with Search Assist can help you, in their words: “Go from ‘to do’ to done.”