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As it battles Microsoft to try to gain some of the Web search market share gobbled by Google, Yahoo has upgraded its search technology with a feature that makes suggestions while users type. Called "Search Assist," the new feature arrives several days after Microsoft similarly unveiled improvements to its Live Search. Search Assist "makes Web search effortless" by helping reduce the number of searches in each search session, Yahoo asserts. The goal of Search Assist is to get searchers the desired information on their first attempt.