Yahoo is making a number of changes to its default search experience tonight to add more structured data to results. Yelp, Yahoo Local and LinkedIn SearchMonkey widgets are being added to search results automatically, eliminating the need for users to go into the search gallery and add them manually.
SearchMonkey is a key part of Yahoo’s attempts to embrace the semantic web and open standards in general.
With SearchMonkey, site owners create “applications” for Yahoo search that can be installed by users in the same sense that Facebook applications can be installed. Each application modifies results for a certain URL specification (for example, all reference pages on Wikipedia or product pages on Amazon). Modifications include both changes to the basic elements of a search result (the title and description) and additions such as an image, deep links, and key/value pairs.
Users can also add additional widgets via the Yahoo Search Gallery.
Here’s the Yelp search result example we used in our first post about SearchMonkey:
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This will definitely encourage developers to build great searchmonkey applications so they have a shot at being defaulted on.
It gives me the impression that humans do all the work here. Isn’t a semantic web supposed to be automatic? maybe I got it all wrong.
Pretty cool stuff, but is anyone using Yahoo for search anymore?
Apparently yes. Even a % of the global search is enough to keep Y! afloat. Check this out.
http://www.qvvo.com/link/fd6d90be/10370
Bonus question: Which Yahoo board member was the search monkey logo drawn from?
Desperate times call for desperate measures, huh Yahoos??
LOL @ you goofs in Sunnyvale!
Look at it the other way - inspite of all the happenings, Y! is making a brave attempt to innovate. Stop being a cynic.
-SD
http://www.qvvo.com/link/fd6d90be/10370
nice link spam
Building a better product is not a “desperate measure”
Releasing it 12 hours before the shareholder meeting is weak. Nifty attempt at a diversion. It gives Jerry et. al. something shiny to point at.
Will it move the needle? Make a lasting imact on the web? I doubt it but time will be the judge.
Who the heck releases new products on a Friday anayway???
It’s called “softlaunch”. You launch on Friday, and have all weekend to sort out the issues.
This is massive news and a great innovation in search. I am surprised that this has not got more news…
Great stuff - looks awesome!
I live right around the corner from that restaurant! Yeah, I’d give it 4 stars…
It’s a great idea. And a great job. If Yahoo!’s search results were better, I’d use them on a regular basis.
Agree.
This is sorta like putting rims on your hoopty.
Why not invest in a better car first?
For the nerds: http://www.urbandictionary.com.....erm=hoopty
Their search results are better. The only reason people keep using Google is because psychologically losers want to boost their self-confidence by attaching themselves to ‘winner’ brands. You use Google for the same reason you’d drive a specific care - it has everything to do with image projection and nothing with actual quality.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/com.....o-live-ask
I use google because it’s simpler to use than Yahoo. There are fewer distractions and now that that I have an adblocker, it’s a totally ad free site. When Yahoo makes search as painless as Google, I’ll use it more.
It’s an interesting issue for Internet industry today. Yahoo open their search platform and empower user to create their own search engine. What I notice is Yahoo search result is getting better. They are not better than Google now, but this is another good step.
Read this article
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/com.....o-live-ask
Yahoo definitely has been doing great things. Its really sad that they don’t get positive coverage for the great things they do. Their contributions with Hadoop and YUI to community has been better than anything Google ever contributed but its gets no press.
Well this should help boost LinkedIn’s & Yelp’s traffic before they try to IPO or something.
I love it - let’s be honest: these structured search results are some of the nicest looking, most useful search result snippets out there, and they’re on Yahoo, not Google. It’s a homerun. Yahoo is doing some great things lately (Yahoo Buzz), I hope they can buy enough time to get back into the game.
http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/a.....ing-better
Yahoo deserves attention for this one.. good job
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Might try Yahoo search a little more… This and some of the other stuff they’re releasing looks pretty good.
Yahoo should acquire Yelp!. Think of all the people that would talk about it, plus it does ties in well with local search as displayed above.
We’ve done a SearchMonkey app “ShoppingNotes.com Combo” that just got featured as the first one on the official Yahoo! Search blog. Read more at http://blog.shoppingnotes.com/?p=231 .
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Wrong place but techcrunch seems to be asking me to download a file when loading the website, it gives me a html page thats empty apart from a link to a js file, http://rmd.atdmt.com/tl/newIframeScript.js
Any idea?
That is sweet! Yahoo is really innovating with BOSS and Searchmonkey.
Interesting idea. In fact in general that yahhoo not search system and the directory
Yahoo is not going down soon…
http://in.search.yahoo.com/
Called the Glue Page…
eg.
http://in.search.yahoo.com/sea.....&rd=r1
Look at this search engine for India.. it is very fantastic .. it changes according to query i.e. you get wikipedia.. normal result.. youtube.. howstuffworks.. etc etc…
Way better than anythingg…….
Eh, I’ll stick with Google SearchMash
http://www.searchmash.com
Neat trick…hopefully this is a turn for the better.
I just can’t take Yahoo seriously as long as they allow paid inclusion in their organic index. Paying for placement on the major search engines?? Wasn’t that supposed to die 10 years ago? I don’t want 4 results from the same root domain on page 1 of my SERP!
Why not simply develop a better crawler & algorithm??
http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/srchsb/ssp.php
This is why webmasters care about google, not about Yahoo.
Wow…they are bringing back the search engine of the early 2000s. TRASH!
OMFG –> The Newsbreak Times is a teenager-run newspaper! I never knew that http://www.newsbreaktimes.com
searchmonkey is dumb!!! unless they come up with a new paradigm. They are never going to let smaller sites in by default as you can see in their announcement. Unless they are going to provide specific guideline on who and what and why they will use to include your search “app” I consider this a scam and will never use it.
Yelp? I guess they aren’t interested in business reviews outside the US (or California, from what I hear).
Brownbook.net is global and open.
Feedback and location added on yahoo search monkey is great idea when it come to searching. I think a lot search engine miss this great idea or maybe ignoring this on how helpful it is.
Nat
http://www.workersinc.com
Go Yahoo! go.
Wow - awesome!!
As everyone knows by now, video is very exciting. I think in the next few years people will discover that video is appropriate for certain areas of the consumer market, right now it seems like everyone wants to use video for everything. I think the small business arena will benefit the most from video which is pretty much the thesis behind http://www.Jippidy.com
I hereby cast my vote for including StumbleUpon’s Search Monkey app on by default as well
missing the mark. yahoo continues to think of things which slow down their search results, create more UI distractions.
think of the simple elegant reasons google are #1
1) speed
2) simplicity
3) effectiveness
so with monkey now, i reduce speed cuz all these apps need to load, i get any random looking new UI paradigm to sift through in the results, and unless i really care about linkedin/yelp/whathave you, ineffective results.
if i want yelp ratings or a linked in blurb, i’ll search yelp or linkedin. no brainer.
dumb idea…and even if it isn’t, google will do it and game over, again, for yahoo…
Rumory.com exposed (Ex-Yahoo employee)
Phil Kaplan was known for F***edcompany.com, a web rumor-mill filled with juicy topics back in the dotcom heyday on the demise of numerous venture-backed, founder-bootstrapped and fabled attempts to build real digital media businesses. We all know and respect Phil, having gone on to found Adbrite but more importantly always being honest and sincere (albeit sometimes distasteful) in both his FC website postings as well as his business practices.
Enter Josh Stomel, a southern california hyper-networker, headhunter and … libeler? Known as the Perez Hilton of internet company gossip and leaks, we recently caught up with “the terror of southland CEOs” in a little bit of our own digging. Josh Stomel, who once worked at Yahoo, Lowermybills and Oversee.net parted ways un-amicably from all three of his ex-employers, at the same time keeping good relationships with their employees due to his natural relationship building skills. No doubt, Rumory focuses on Yahoo, Lowermybills, Oversee and a handful of other california based startups known to work with or have relationships with Josh.
Josh charges clients cash plus stock options in exchange for employees from his ex-employers. In this VentureHeadHunter model, he has made just as many enemies in California as he has made friends. And that’s not just the beginning. In 2006 Josh Stomel used his same network and access to information through recruiting channels to start his own blog. After plagiarizing numerous popular blogs out there, he gained a reputation for being the poster boy of dotcom gossip, vanity and bad grammar (http://www.google.com/search?q=josh+stomel+plagiarist) though we now think that his office mates share in the writing so as to provide variety in prose.
Though he and team post as “Anonymous”, with a little help from our IT friends Dave and Seemesh, we were able to find the connection to Josh Stomel through another way:
1. The owner of Rumory.com owns Dividethebills.com (Lowermybills knockoff), a domain Josh Stomel bought back in the day.
http://www.domaintools.com/rev.....rumory.com
2. Dividethebills.com (64.13.225.75) resides on a server hosted at a Culver City, CA ISP named Media Temple Inc.
http://ws.arin.net/whois?queryinput=64.13.225.75
3. Rumory.com resides on the same server or as the Dividethebills.com server at Media Temple Inc.
PING http://www.dividethebills.com (64.13.225.75): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 64.13.225.75: icmp_seq=0 ttl=51 time=83.945 ms
4. Resumebucket.com (64.13.231.22) shares the same IP space as Rumory.com
http://ws.arin.net/whois?queryinput=64.13.231.22
5. Resumebucket, along with Neohire, is the brainchild of Josh Stomel and folks recruited out of his ex-companies.
We say the following to Josh: What goes around comes around. Integrity in a seemingly large but ultimately small industry is one’s greatest asset. If you tarnish company reputations, at least man up and don’t post as Anonymous. Take a page out of Phil Kaplan’s book and reveal yourself. Or at least employ one of those bright techies you’ve poached to cover your tracks a little better.
As Samuel Butler once wrote, “The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance”.
meta search
http://beta.chahuo.com/
Local search is still interesting with yahoo’s product in my humble opinion as the leader of the pack.
But give our local search engine a try on http://click2connect.com . I notice many users here commenting that they prefer clean and simple interfaces which is exactly what we aim to provide
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