Yahoo Search Assist uses Eyetools eyetracking to optimize design based on eyes and where people look
You can check out the CBS news video at http://cbs5.com/video/?id=27290@kpix.dayport.com (alternately, try http://cbs5.com/video/ and search for "yahoo search" since sometime the video doesn't load)
About 1 minute into the video, Yahoo shows an eyetracking heatmap generated by Eyetools software and talks about how Yahoo used eyetracking data/heatmaps to optimize the Search Assist design. They're calling it "the biggest consumer improvement to its search engine... ever".
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CBS :) That's just great! Congratulation :) Hope for further good news from that topic concerning 'clash of the titans'.That's outstanding news that eyetools and user experience would have been key issue here.
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