Yahoo! Sticks Search Results Together With Glue

Yahoo! began rolling out Glue to search results in the U.S. late yesterday. The company has been testing the feature in India and while in that instance the Glue search results were featured alongside the regular results, Yahoo!’s U.S. version will be separate from normal Yahoo! searching.

SearchEngineLand defines Glue Pages as structured search results, pulling content on particular queries or topics from a range of sources: Wikipedia, news, Yahoo Answers, image search, blogs and video. Basically, you’re looking at images, text and video results all on one search results page.

Julie Demsey, Yahoo! Glue project manager, explained in the company’s search blog why the company has decided to run Glue separate to search.

“For those that may be wondering, our intention with Yahoo! Glue™ beta is not to replace the Yahoo! Search experience in the U.S. We’re always challenging ourselves to explore innovative new ways to deliver great experiences,” she said. “Glue is one of those experiments, with a goal of giving users one more visual way to browse and discover new things from across the Web. We’ll be working to expand the number of Glue pages, improve the experience and incorporate your feedback into future versions,” Demsey concluded.

Check out Glue by heading over to http://glue.yahoo.com/. Bear in mind that it’s going to take a while to roll it out completely.