Yahoo! Launches Search Subscriptions Beta

The search engine Yahoo! announced the beta launch of Yahoo! Search Subscriptions.

"We are in the very early stages of providing our users with access to the deep web through Yahoo! Search Subscriptions and over the coming months we plan to expand this program to further accommodate our users' wide range of interests," said Eckart Walther, vice president, product management, Yahoo! Search.

The service will enable users to search online subscription and Web content from a single search box.

"Yahoo! Search Subscriptions benefits our online subscribers by providing a direct channel to our world leading business, financial, geopolitical news and analysis content through a world renowned search engine," said Alex Withers, Director of FT.com, Americas.

Subscription content includes for-pay news and reference Web sites. Using Yahoo! Search Subscriptions, users can find information from research and business publishers through a single search experience through Yahoo! Search.

The search content is provided by ConsumerReports.org, The Wall Street Journal Online, TheStreet.com, The New England Journal of Medicine, IEEE and Forrester Research Inc. In the list of publisher are FT.com, Factiva, LexisNexis AlaCarte!™.

In addition Yahoo! Search Subscriptions increases the value of publishers' subscription programs. It is allowed by making their content more readily searchable by the Yahoo! Audience. The search engine reports 372 million unique users.