Yahoo Launches Beta of 'Alpha' Search

Yahoo's Australian arm launched a beta of a new search engine named "Alpha," which aims to bring together results from several different search engines. While many multi-source search sites combine the results together, Alpha would compartmentalize results into widget-like boxes. In the default set up, the main widget is Yahoo! Search, but the layout can be changed to the user's liking.

Currently in addition to Yahoo search results, widgets containing results from Flickr, YouTube, Yahoo! News, Wikipedia, and Yahoo Search Marketing are also included. A user can also add their own sources, as long as they know the base URL for search results.