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Yahoo! Speaks at Web 3.0 Conference & Expo
The Web 3.0 Conference & Expo kicks off this week in Santa Clara and the Yahoo! Search team will be there speaking on a couple of panels about SearchMonkey and Yahoo! Search BOSS.Thursday, October 16thTime: 2:00 - 2:50 p.m.Session: Demo Hour: Semantic Search SolutionsDescription: This session showcases practical applications for semantic search and the benefits of semantic technologies in improving relevancy of results. In this track, Yahoo! will speak to developers' and site owners' use of structured data to make Yahoo! Search results more useful and visually appealing and drive more site traffic with SearchMonkey.Yahoo!: Tom Chi, Senior Director, Product Management, Yahoo! SearchFriday, October 17thTime: 1:00 - 1:50 p.m.Session: Improved Services DEMO SessionDescription: This demo session showcases Web 3.0 products that have raised the bar in service delivery to users and/or customers. Yahoo! will share how BOSS is helping developers, startups and large Internet companies build their own search services and move the needle in next-generation search innovation.Yahoo!: Bill Michels, Senior Director, Open Search Platform, Yahoo! SearchCheck out the complete conference schedule for more sessions on next-generation web technologies. And stop by the panels and say hi. We look forward to seeing you there.Yahoo! Search Blog team
Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Index Update
We'll be rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the next few days. As you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index, but expect the update will be completed soon.Please visit the Site Explorer Suggestion Board to share your thoughts or check in with other Yahoo! Search users. Sharad VermaYahoo! Search
SearchMonkey for Site Search
In the past few months, SearchMonkey developers have told us they'd like to use Enhanced Results for site search. Yahoo! and other search engines have long had a site restrict operator (e.g. site:anysite.com) and other site search tools, but we decided to launch a new capability that lets you add a query parameter that automatically turns on the SearchMonkey Enhanced Result for the site you're searching. This is important for site owners because it makes it easier for their communities to get more complete answers when they search on Yahoo! Search.This new parameter will work with any app that's in the Yahoo! Search Gallery as well as any official app. (To make an app official, a site owner just needs to authenticate their site using Site Explorer and then associate their app with their site when they make it sharable in the Developer Tool)How it worksTo use this functionality, you just need to append a few parameters to a typical Yahoo! Search query string. Here's a quick example:Start with a standard query string: http://search.yahoo.com/search?q=u2Add the site restrict parameter: &vs=last.fmAdd the SearchMonkey app ID parameter (case sensitive): &sm=xhoFinal result: http://search.yahoo.com/search?q=u2&vs=last.fm&sm=xhoThis query string can be generated using whatever mechanism you choose, including a simple search box on your site or blog. It works with both Infobars and Enhanced Results -- as long as the app is either in the Gallery or is official. If you accidentally try a SearchMonkey app along with a site restriction that doesn't match, the results will look like a typical site-restricted search. Here are a few more examples:Site: WikipediaApp: http://gallery.search.yahoo.com/application?smid=knbSearchMonkey for site search query: http://search.yahoo.com/search?q=george+washington&vs=wikipedia.org&sm=knbTry a search: Site: Yahoo! AnswersApp: http://gallery.search.yahoo.com/application?smid=ylcSearchMonkey for site search query: http://search.yahoo.com/search?q=can+pigs+fly?&vs=answers.yahoo.com&sm=ylcTry a search: Site: java.sun.comApp: http://gallery.search.yahoo.com/application?smid=Zq0SearchMonkey for site search query: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=exception&vs=java.sun.com&sm=Zq0Try a search: Before we continue work on this feature, please let us know what you think below or on the Developer group. We'd be particularly interested to hear what else site owners would like to be able to customize in order to make SearchMonkey a more valuable site search tool.The SearchMonkey team
SlideShare Presents: SearchMonkey
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 SearchMonkey tutorial or presentation that you'd like to share, you can add it to SlideShare as well. Just mark your presentation with the "searchmonkey" tag and you'll automatically be included in the SearchMonkey repository: http://www.slideshare.net/tag/searchmonkey. Yahoo! Search Blog team
Think Tank Tries Imagining a Yahoogle Consent Decree
The American Antitrust Institute (AAI) has waded into the Yahoogle debate with a 22-page white paper that worries that the Yahoo-Google alliance will turn into “a black hole that swallows up Yahoo.” And it says that if the government can’t negotiate a consent decree that “preserves Yahoo’s [economic] incentives to remain in the paid search market” and compete against both Google and Microsoft – the only potentially pro-competitive feature in the deal is the money it would throw off that Yahoo could invest in its Panama advertising platform – then the Justice Department should “seek an injunction to prevent Google and Yahoo from implementing their agreement.” read more
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