Yahoo! Search BlogA look inside the world of search from the people at Yahoo!Announcing the BOSS Mashable Challenge- September 12, 2008 Today at Open Hack 2008, we'll be announcing a new developer challenge we're hosting with Mashable. Since Yahoo! Search BOSS is all about openness and innovation, we figured the BOSS Mashable Challenge should be too; so there are almost no restrictions on what you can submit. Have an idea for a better way to search on the iPhone Always wanted a search engine to help you find info on your hobby Think you could design a better UI than 10 blue links Now is your chance to build a mashup or...http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000626.html Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Index Update- September 9, 2008 We'll be rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the next few days and expect the update will be completed soon. As you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index. To share your thoughts or check in with other Yahoo! Search users, please visit the Site Explorer Suggestion Board. Sharad Verma Yahoo! Searchhttp://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000625.html SlideShare Presents: SearchMonkey- September 5, 2008 Our team at Yahoo! Search has been speaking at various shows about SearchMonkey, Yahoo!'s new developer platform that uses data web standards and structured data to enhance the usefulness of search results. If you're interested in getting the details of those talks, take a look at some of our presentations featured on SlideShare.net. In addition to the presentations produced and uploaded by Yahoo!, other presentations from our SearchMonkey community have been posted as well. If you have a.http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000623.html Meet the BOSS Team at TechCrunch50- September 4, 2008 Yahoo! is joining Michael Arrington as a major sponsor at TechCrunch50, TechCrunch's second annual conference, at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse Monday through Wednesday, September 8 - 10. More than 50 early stage companies will pitch their products and ideas in front of a host of respected VCs, execs and entrepreneurs. A panel of judges will also award $50,000 to one of the startups. Yahoo!'s Ash Patel, Head of the Audience Products Division, will serve as one of the...http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000622.html Building with BOSS -- New Products to Share- September 3, 2008 It's been two months since we began "opening up" the Yahoo! Search infrastructure with the launch of Yahoo! Search BOSS and we've already seen some great products created. We shared a handful with you last month, and we're excited to see that the creativity hasn't slowed down. From new vertical search engines to a personalized search platform, developers are using BOSS to come up with a range of new products. As we promised, below are a few more examples of the interesting products that have...http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000621.html Return of the Hack, Yahoo! Open Hack Day- September 3, 2008 To help promote web innovation and openness, Yahoo! is hosting Open Hack 2008 for developers next Friday and Saturday, September 12 & 13, at our Sunnyvale campus and we invite you to join us. In our SearchMonkey- and Yahoo! Search BOSS-focused sessions, we'll share where the platforms are headed, gather important feedback and give you time to get creative and build apps. We're calling all SearchMonkey and BOSS developers and partners. But space is limited so head to our Hack Day sign-up...http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000620.html |