More of the goodies Yahoo and different developers have been working on as part of the SearchMonkey effort are becoming available to normal searchers and site owners today. The upgrades cover a very wide swath of categories, too.
With the big Yahoo Microsoft deal announced, there are still a lot of questions out there, despite the significant amount of information the companies have shared thus far. We know that Bing will become the search engine used in Yahoo searches. We also know that Microsoft will acquire an exclusive 10-year license to Yahoo's core search technologies.
Yahoo sure likes names that can be shouted. At a search event the company held yesterday, speakers focused on a "Web of objects" concept - also known as WOO - that Yahoo intends to embrace as a way of moving beyond the standard ten blue links.
Yahoo has introduced a new way for site owners to enhance their Yahoo Search results using SearchMonkey. If you have flash videos, games, presentations, etc. you can have them show up right in Yahoo's SERPs.
Yahoo shares an example of how Hulu added the following code:
<link rel="image_src" href="http://thumbnails.hulu.com/9/967/32912_145×80_generated__VfWxSNY3rESG1ntOzexNRQ.jpg" />
Facebook features have been added to Yahoo's list of SearchMonkey apps that the search engine has turned on by default. The others that are available include (via Matt McGee):
On Wikipedia’s eight birthday, Yahoo has set its Wikipedia Searchmonkey app on by default. The application pulls more information from Wikipedia and makes it viewable in the search results.Wikipedia results will appear with deep links to as many as four sections of the article about the searched-for topic, a photo if one appears in the corresponding article, and a snippet from the top of the article. For example, if one were to conduct a search on Cyrus the Great of Persia, the result would appear like this:
A lot of people enjoy being testers; the practice essentially lets them get their hands on cool stuff way before everyone else. At the same time, the people behind the products appreciate receiving early feedback. So Yahoo's adopting a smart approach to its SearchMonkey program and making unfinished applications more accessible.
Yahoo announced that they have integrated a couple of applications from their SearchMonkey project into everyday search results for users of the Yahoo search engine. The two integrated apps are from Citysearch and Zagat, which Yahoo intends to use for improved local search results along with Yelp and its own Yahoo Local results.
It appears that the small boxes used to carry office supplies and personal effects are still in high demand at Yahoo. New reports indicate that Amit Kumar and Kiersten Hollars - two relatively high-ranking employees - are expected to move some within the next week or so.
Developers who wanted to make more use of Yahoo's SearchMonkey technology with a site's specific content got a little help from Yahoo.
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