Search-beta.yahoo.com?

Found this in my logs

[webdevsf]

Anyone know what this is? Search-beta.yahoo.com

[sem4u]

Sounds interesting - anything to do with Ink by any chance?

[Mohamed_E]

As far as I can tell it has the same IP as search.yahoo.com, i.e. it looks like an alias of it:

% nslookup search-beta.yahoo.com
Server: resolver1.level3.net
Address: 209.244.0.3

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: newsearch.yahoo.akadns.net
Address: 64.58.78.244
Aliases: search-beta.yahoo.com, search.yahoo.com

% nslookup search.yahoo.com
Server: resolver1.level3.net
Address: 209.244.0.3

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: newsearch.yahoo.akadns.net
Address: 64.58.78.244
Aliases: search.yahoo.com