Yahoo My Web 2.0 Beta Social Search Engine

I learned via Flickr that Yahoo is unveiling its Social Search tool, in beta as of today. Here's some information to get you started.

What is it, exactly? Yahoo My Web 2.0 is a social search engine, which means that people and search technology are working together to create both better searches and a better search experience. Direct from Yahoo:

Tag and save content that matters to you. Find something interesting on the Web? Just tag it and save it with My Web 2.0 and you'll re-find it instantly next time you need it.

Connect to friends and share what you know. Sure search engines have revolutionized how people obtain information, but nothing takes the place of recommendations from people you know. My Web 2.0 lets you instantly tap into the knowledge of people with related or completely new interests so you can share what they know.

Discover what the world has tagged and shared. Besides finding better answers through the community of people you trust, you can browse the content that the rest of the world has shared as well. So you don't just get access to Web content that's ranked by Search technology. With My Web 2.0 you get to discover new content ranked by real people."

This is what my page looks like with tags, My Web, My Community's Web, etc.:

You can also read about the latest developments in the Yahoo My Web Blog, which I'll be following and summarizing for you here. So far I'm loving looking at everyone's pages, everyone's tags, and the most popular pages.

Related:

• What does this remind me of exactly? Hmmm..I don't know...maybe del.icio.us, which I blogged about yesterday. Learn more about del.icio.us and how to use it; you can also learn more about how to organize your del.icio.us bookmarks.
• Yahoo has been around for quite a while, and they have a huge presence on the Web. more about Yahoo, including Yahoo Search Shortcuts, Yahoo Reference Search, and Yahoo's special properties.