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Searching Through 2008 - A Look Back
Date : 2008 12 01 Yahoo! Search BlogIt's that time of year again when we look back at what was 2008 through the billions of search queries we receive each month and from the millions of users who help paint this picture. This year we've teamed up with Yahoo! Buzz to bring to you the Yahoo! 2008 Year in Review. Not only are we presenting the t read more »
Search the Web Through a Vertical Lens
Date : 2008 11 26 Yahoo! Search BlogOver the last few months we've showcased a handful of innovative mashups that developers have created using Yahoo! Search BOSS. The creations have ranged in functionality and focus, but all have included interesting applications of Yahoo! Search's index, infrastructure and technology. Today, we're sharing a read more »
Yahoo! Search BOSS Hits Tel Aviv
Date : 2008 11 20 Yahoo! Search BlogA couple of weeks ago, Yahoo! Search visited Tel Aviv, Israel as part of our international BOSS Hack Day series. Our goal with these Hack Days is to educate developers around the world on Yahoo! Search BOSS, share where the platform is headed and foster the development of innovative new search experiences usi read more »
Gluing Together the Best Content on the Web
Date : 2008 11 19 Yahoo! Search BlogYou may have heard about our experimental visual display of search results on Yahoo! India, called Glue™ Pages. Tonight we're launching a similar, but slightly different experience in the U.S. with Yahoo! Glue™ beta. This newest iteration is a standalone experience focused on assembling useful info read more »
Coming to Firefox and Safari: A companion to solve your puzzle mysteries
Date : 2008 11 19 Yahoo! Search BlogYou puzzle lovers out there may remember that we launched a crossword puzzle game that combined the Search Assist feature to provide helpful hints from Yahoo! Search last Fall. After all, many of us aren't born with the natural "crossword gene" (myself included) and having a helping hand to unscramble the wor read more »
Yahoo! Search BOSS Releases Key Terms
Date : 2008 11 18 Yahoo! Search BlogToday we're pleased to announce the availability of the first of a series of new BOSS features called Key Terms. We began opening up our search infrastructure four months ago with Yahoo! Search BOSS. Since then, we've heard again and again in our developer group and at conferences and hack days around the w read more »
BOSS Hack World Tour Heads to Europe
Date : 2008 11 17 Yahoo! Search BlogWe just returned from two solid events on the BOSS Hack Day world tour. Last Monday's event in London drew a range of developers, including a few who were completely new to the platform along with a handful of experienced BOSS hackers (such as the developer from BuildaSearch). After a successful stop in L read more »
A Delicious Anniversary
Date : 2008 11 06 Yahoo! Search BlogWith over 180 million unique URLs tagged, Delicious is celebrating its five year anniversary. To date, 5.3 million users have turned to Delicious to enhance their social search experience. Not only is it a free and easy way for people to discover, tag and share web content, it continues to evolve to provide g read more »
Yahoo! Search in Vegas for PubCon 2008
Date : 2008 11 05 Yahoo! Search BlogLas Vegas is about to get even wilder next week for the annual Pubcon Vegas 2008 show. Search and search marketing professionals are heading out to the Las Vegas Convention Center in droves and Yahoo! Search will be a part of the action. Participating in a number of panels, the team here will cover topics suc read more »
Experimental Monkeys Now Available
Date : 2008 10 31 Yahoo! Search BlogWe often talk about the growing number of interesting SearchMonkey applications that have been built by developers. Many of the applications live in the Yahoo! Search Gallery, but quite a few aren't accepted for various reasons. Today, we're introducing SearchMonkey experimental applications to give developer read more »
Yahoo! Search Tracks the Road to the White House
Date : 2008 10 30 Yahoo! Search BlogElection Day is fast approaching and the presidential race has certainly been interesting. As the race heats up, we've been collecting and analyzing some fascinating data about how voters are using search during this election. While searches aren't votes, they do provide insight into what's on the collective read more »
Search Assist: A Look Back and Ahead
Date : 2008 10 29 Yahoo! Search BlogLast October we launched Search Assist, taking a significant step toward making searching smarter on Yahoo! Search. Over the past year we've made strides in improving our search assistance technology with one goal in mind: to intelligently guide users to the answers they seek. In a recent survey1, we lear read more »
BOSS Hack Day Hits the Road
Date : 2008 10 28 Yahoo! Search BlogThe BOSS team recently participated in Open Hack 2008 to promote innovation and openness in search. Developers came out in full force to create hacks and mashups using Yahoo! Search BOSS. With the success of our event in Sunnyvale, we decided to take Hack Day on the road. We're inviting developers to take read more »
Inquisitor Expands to Firefox and IE
Date : 2008 10 22 Yahoo! Search BlogEarlier this year, we launched Inquisitor 3 for Safari. Since then, users have been asking (demanding) that we make Inquisitor available on other browser platforms. This evening, we're doing just that with the launch of Inquisitor Firefox 2 and 3 and Internet Explorer 7 and 8. This means that the majority read more »
BOSS Challenge Winner Profiled on Mashable
Date : 2008 10 22 Yahoo! Search BlogAs we announced on October 14, Kallout, a contextual search product, won the BOSS Mashable Challenge. Part of the first prize for the Challenge was a guest post on Mashable, which was posted today. Kallout is a great example of how BOSS can quickly be integrated into products and mash-ups to power next genera read more »
The BOSS Team Goes Back to School
Date : 2008 10 22 Yahoo! Search BlogA few weeks ago, the BOSS team invited a handful of the top academic minds in information retrieval to join us at our Sunnyvale campus for the BOSS Academic Research Day. In addition to the professors and grad students from Stanford, MIT, UMass, University of Illinois and Purdue, we also invited ten senior re read more »
Get Local with SearchMonkey
Date : 2008 10 16 Yahoo! Search BlogToday, we're happy to announce that we're turning on Citysearch and Zagat SearchMonkey applications for all users. Together with the Yelp and Yahoo! Local Enhanced Results, as well as the Yahoo! Shortcut at the top of the search page, finding local businesses on Yahoo! Search is faster and more intuitive than read more »