Yahoo has turned on deep links and images from Wikipedia in its search results as part of its overall effort to add structured data from third parties via the Search Monkey platform.
What this means – when a Wikipedia result is returned for a query (and this happens a lot, see this search for TechCrunch for example where it is the second result), Yahoo will include deep links to the first four sections of the article, an image if it’s available and a text summary. I’ve added a before and after image for the TechCrunch search below.
The new Wikipedia module is turned on by default, along with existing modules for Flickr, Yelp, LinkedIn, CitySearch, Zagat and others. Any of the modules can be turned off here.
Nice.. its a very useful feature..
Wow – very nice SearchMonkey!
Is it the best user experience to get search results as lists ? I doubt it.
I guess it is the best was for advertisers to target their audience and find their way in the designs but that will emerge a more intuitive way of representing the search results.
Who agrees ? Am I wrong to think the representation of the search results should evolve significantly and that it will ?
Nice!!! yeah
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google has been breaking down results for most major sites for ages
google “techcrunch”…
I tried google “techcrunch” and it was no way as neat as on Yahoo.
Maybe you should have tried it yourself before posting.
so what, its been on Google for years. Lets see if they can match Google’s quality here, which they can’t in the results.
Another moron who claims Google has better quality search results based on his anecdotal experience. The fact is that Yahoo has always had better quality search. That Google comes up with more links means nothing. The point is that the top 20 results on Yahoo are always more appropriate to what’s been queried.
Modern Jackass.
Search Monkey is a good technology. Too bad Yahoo’s poor indexing performance holds it back. I put rdfa markup on my site two months ago and Yahoo indexer still didn’t pick it up.
I wish Google would create something like Search Monkey.
Presentation wise its good but i dont think deep links are working correctly…
deeplinks and summary = useful
random cropped image = annoying & messy
Oh, this is excellent. Now, a search on Yahoo! for “ejaculation” is much improved with the excellent, child-safe images from Wikipedia.