Yahoo! Search BlogA look inside the world of search from the people at Yahoo!See Moments Missed in the 2008 Olympics- August 14, 2008 The opening ceremony has come and gone and the 2008 Summer Olympics are well underway. Every day moments of achievement, defeat and disappointment are captured and if you're lucky, you witness them first hand. If you're not so lucky, don't fret, Yahoo! Image Search has just rolled out a new image carousel to make finding those history-making moments easier. Now when you do a search on Yahoo! Image Search for Olympics-related content, you will see a carousel of some of the freshest, most...http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000615.html Inquisitor Gets Smarter, Faster and Multi-Lingual- August 13, 2008 A few months back we announced the acquisition of Inquisitor software, which helped to extend our query suggestion features, similar to Yahoo!'s Search Assist, to the Mac community. We've been quietly working on enhancements since, and today we're rolling out a new look, a few performance improvements and we're also going global. To start with we tapped into the Yahoo! Search infrastructure, using the recently announced Yahoo! Search BOSS, our open search web services platform, in order to...http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000614.html SearchMonkey for Site Search- August 8, 2008 In the past few months, SearchMonkey developers have told us they'd like to use Enhanced Results for site search. Yahoo! and other search engines have long had a site restrict operator (e.g. site:anysite.com) and other site search tools, but we decided to launch a new capability that lets you add a query parameter that automatically turns on the SearchMonkey Enhanced Result for the site you're searching. This is important for site owners because it makes it easier for their communities to get...http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000612.html What's Being Built with BOSS- August 7, 2008 It's been about a month since Yahoo! Search BOSS launched, so it seems like an opportune time to look at some of the mashups and search products that have been built using the BOSS APIs & services. As we've said before, our goal with BOSS is to remove as many of the barriers as possible to creating new search products. By providing deep access to Yahoo! Search's investment in engineering, sciences and core search infrastructure and removing key usage restrictions, we are encouraging a whole new.http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000613.html Yahoo! Shortcuts for Summer Olympic Fever- August 5, 2008 With 205 nations, approximately 10,500 athletes and 302 events in 28 sports, it's going to be tough to keep up with all that's going on at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. That's why Yahoo! Search is launching a series of shortcuts to Olympics-related information and news coverage. Starting with the torch-lighting at the opening ceremony on August 8th, there will be a ton of Olympics-related information out there, such as breaking news, results and medal counts. The shortcut will help you..http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000611.html Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Index Update- August 4, 2008 We'll be rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the next few days. As you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index, but expect the update will be completed soon. Please visit the Site Explorer Suggestion Board to share your thoughts or check in with other Yahoo! Search users. Sharad Verma Yahoo! Searchhttp://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000610.html Yelp, Yahoo! Local & LinkedIn SearchMonkey Apps Now Default-On- August 1, 2008 Last month we opened up the Yahoo! Search Gallery to showcase all of the useful SearchMonkey applications that have been built by developers, site owners and Yahoo!. Today, we're turning on a few of those applications for all users. Now, the Yelp, Yahoo! Local and LinkedIn Enhanced Results will automatically appear in the search results, eliminating the need for users to go into the Search Gallery to add them. Why did we start with these applications Before making an application "default.http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000609.html |