Yahoo! Search BlogA look inside the world of search from the people at Yahoo!Hola Olá! SearchMonkey- July 31, 2008 Getting an international passport can be tough for the average monkey. But that's not the case with this SearchMonkey. Today we're proud to announce we've launched the Yahoo! Search Gallery in Latin America, so our friends in Argentina, Mexico and Brazil can now join the party. Since our initial launch two short months ago, the team has been busy releasing major enhancements to the Gallery, supporting new microformats, putting on developer events in Sunnyvale, London and Paris, and picking...http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000608.html Making Social Bookmarking a bit more Delicious- July 31, 2008 Today, our teammates across the way rolled out the newest version of the social bookmarking site Delicious (formerly known as del.icio.us), which offers enhanced performance and search capabilities along with a brand new user interface. The Delicious team has detailed the changes on their blog, but here's a quick look at what's new: Improved Performance -- With a new more scalable infrastructure, Delicious can better keep up with the growing traffic while still providing you with the same.http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000607.html The Latest Cool SearchMonkey Apps- July 29, 2008 The Monkey has been out for a couple months and, since then, we've named the Developer Challenge winners and seen thousands of applications built -- more than 50 of which we've added to the Yahoo! Search Gallery. In the spirit of acknowledging developers' hard work, we want to share a few of our favorites. Remember, you need to click the "Add" button in the Search Gallery in order to see these in your Yahoo! Search results. The enhancement ShoppingNotes.com Combo How it works This Infobar was.http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000606.html Stan Lee and Breaking News in Yahoo! Search- July 25, 2008 Yahoo! Search recently made some significant enhancements for queries related to breaking news. The goal was to improve the freshness and recency of Search and show breaking news articles faster than before. Here's how we improved things: Based on the newsworthiness of each query, we're now displaying the News Direct Display (DD) in the most relevant position(s) on SERP We're also better able to detect queries that are newsworthy, which means we're showing more fresh News DDs than...http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000605.html Paving the way to Semantic Search- July 22, 2008 If you've been frequenting the Yahoo! Search Blog, you've certainly read about our initiatives for a more open ecosystem. Complimentary to that, we've discussed semantic web standards and how Yahoo! Search is supporting this technology. Just last week, Yahoo!'s Peter Mika dug a little deeper into the semantic web and explored how it's helping to shape the next generation of search -- transitioning from syntactical search to semantic search. The article first looks at the current limitations..http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000604.html SMX Local & Mobile, Yahoo! Local Sneak Peek- July 22, 2008 Danny Sullivan's SMX Local & Mobile event starts Thursday, July 24, in San Francisco. We're peppering the show with a keynote from Yahoo! Local and a panel presentation from Yahoo! Connected Life. Kicking off the festivities, Frazier Miller, Yahoo! Local's General Manager, will focus on Yahoo!'s vision for weaving local information into users' primary Web starting points in his keynote address on Thursday at 9:15 a.m. Following, Michael Bayle, Yahoo! Connected Life's General Manager of...http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000603.html BOSS Developers: Check out the Daylife Developer Challenge- July 16, 2008 Last week we launched our new search web services platform, Yahoo! Search BOSS, and pointed to a few folks that already started using BOSS. We mentioned that Daylife is integrating the BOSS API as part of the Daylife To-Go customization wizard. They're also encouraging participants in their DayPI Developer Challenge to integrate the BOSS API in their mashups. The challenge awards developers who build the most interesting, original and innovative applications using the Daylife API. As part..http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000602.html Announcing the Winners of the SearchMonkey Developer Challenge- July 11, 2008 Back in May, we kicked off the SearchMonkey Developer Challenge. After hundreds of submissions over the course of a month, the contest came to a close a few weeks ago. Our all-star judges picked their favorite apps and today we're announcing the five winners: Innovative Structured Data - The StumbleUpon team won this category for an Infobar they built that draws in ratings and tags as well as links to other users who like the page. Best Infobar - The team from BooRah, a restaurant...http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000601.html |