An announcement by Yahoo is of taking its popular Inquisitor plug-in from Safari and offering it for Internet Explorer and Firefox. When you will type some text in to search box ,Inquisitor helps you to give suggestions ,Like in Google you have Google Suggest for suggestions.

Inquisitor is a bit different from this because it will bring up specific websites as suggestions rather then providing suggestions for actual searches.

A post on the Yahoo Search Blog says:

Building on the work by the Yahoo! Research team in the paper “Information Re-Retrieval: Repeat Queries in Yahoo! Logs,” the algorithm that generates the personalized results has been enhanced to return more targeted results.

We’ve also included a bookmark-based retrieval feature for IE. So, if you are looking for a page you bookmarked a few months ago, say an expense report guide on your local Intranet, you won’t need to fumble around your hundreds of bookmarks and folders to find that page. A simple search in Inquisitor will bring it right up.

Is this going to be the revolutionary search feature Yahoo is looking for in its ongoing struggle to compete with Google? Probably not, but it’s a handy enough feature that some users will find useful. Clearly Safari users have already enjoyed it.

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