Yahoo Search Improvements

clipped from tech.yahoo.com Yahoo Technology Will Offer Abstracts of Search Results (PC World) Yahoo's lab in India is developing technology that will summarize information about web search results rather than simply offer links as search engines currently do. clipped from bangalore.yahoo.com clipped from tech.yahoo.com The Bangalore lab is working in the area of automated information extraction, which involves going into the URLs, going through billions of pages, and extracting the relevant information, he said. If it is a product page, users will typically get abstracts that include an image of the product, the name of the manufacturer, and the price, Rastogi said. Likewise a link to a hotel would have its address, telephone number, maybe a map guiding users to the hotel, and the rating of the hotel, he added. Yahoo made available to developers earlier this year SearchMonkey, a platform that it said would allow developers and site owners to customize the presentation of URLs in search results.

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SearchMonkey

SearchMonkey is Yahoo! Search's new open platform.

Using SearchMonkey, developers and site owners can use structured data to make Yahoo! Search results more useful and visually appealing, and drive more relevant traffic to their sites.

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"Clearly we don't expect that everybody will adopt SearchMonkey, so this 'rich results' piece is our in-house effort to automate the information extraction for large classes of web sites," Rastogi said.

Search query refinement

The Bangalore lab is also working with other Yahoo labs in the area of search query refinement.

If a user types in "cars", he could be at various stages in the purchase cycle for a car, or is maybe looking for a car mechanic, or wants to rent a car, Rastogi said.

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Yahoo! SearchMonkey

Yahoo has launched a private beta for its SearchMonkey developer platform. The idea is to create applications that users can install to modify how results display on the Yahoo search pages.

clipped from searchengineland.com Yahoo! Launches SearchMonkey Developer Tool in Limited Preview Yahoo! is providing a "limited preview" of a tool that enables developers to create SearchMonkey applications. clipped from www.ysearchblog.com Site owners can build enhanced search results that will provide searchers with a more useful experience by including links, images and name-value pairs in the search results for their pages (likely resulting in an increase in traffic quantity and quality) Developers can build SearchMonkey apps that enhance search results, access Yahoo! Search's user base and help shape the next generation of search Users can customize their search experience with apps built by or for their favorite sites clipped from searchengineland.com You can create two types of results with SearchMonkey: Enhanced result: may provide a more descriptive title, additional navigational links below the description, and other meta data. Infobar: retains the original title and description, but provides additional information below the result.

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Y!Open a Social Network from Within Yahoo!

Yahoo is transforming itself into an open and social platform from the ground up. It will open up assets in a way never done before, making the consumer experience social throughout and provide hooks to developers.

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Yahoo rewiring itself from the inside out

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The first example of Yahoo's new openness is SearchMonkey, which was first announced in February. SearchMonkey lets developers build data services for modifying the presentation of search results.

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Come to the Search Monkey Developer Event!

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"This is just the tip of the iceberg," Balogh proclaimed. The front page of Yahoo, mail and other properties will be transformed.

Yahoo has 10 billion latent connections across its properties, such as mail, messenger and fantasy sports, Balogh said.

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Yahoo's new architecture, called YOS (Yahoo Open Strategy) proves that the Internet is made of tubes.

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The front page of Yahoo, mail and other properties will be transformed--for example, the mail welcome page will surface messages more relevant to users and the experience will be contextualized.

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