Yandex has launched a system of displaying facts and figures in search suggestions



Search engine "Yandex" has long shows users tips. This is quite a useful feature, introduced by virtually all of the search services. Sometimes very useful to only enter part of the query, and get the entire query. The developers of "Yandex" decided to make autocomplete even more useful, and now the search tips, you can see the user needs access to facts and figures. In other words, the answer to some questions can get in the search line.

For example, if you need code of any city, just type the corresponding query, and a tooltip will show the code. Similarly, it is possible to know the geometrical sizes of known objects, the courses of some currencies and so on. System intentalo search, so all that called available for conventional browsers and for mobile, in the case of modern smartphones with touchscreen displays.

The answers in the search string will not be given on all questions, the question "what is the meaning of life" we still get a huge amount of reasoning in the main search results. But if you ask about the name of the capital of any state, the answer will be given immediately. The name of the writer, you can learn the same way. In General, the answers given to a question about any fact. The main thing — the question should not be too complicated, as in the example with the meaning of life.

The developers believe that the new feature will be useful to many users who will be able to save a lot of time without typing the complete query, not trying to find the answer among the entire issue. Especially this feature will be useful for smartphone users — for them it is especially convenient.
Article based on information from habrahabr.ru

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