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Inquisitor Joins the Yahoo! Search Team
Date : 2008 05 09 Yahoo! Search BlogLast year, Yahoo! Search launched Search Assist to help users find what they're looking for quickly and easily by providing query suggestions and related concepts in real-time. Today, Yahoo! Search is embracing the Mac community and offering similar search assistance features with the acquisition of Inquisito read more »
A Yahoo! SearchMonkey on the Semantic Web
Date : 2008 05 08 Yahoo! Search BlogOn Nodalities blog today, Paul Miller posts his podcast interview with Peter Mika, a SearchMonkey from Yahoo! Research. Peter's speaking at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose May 18-22, so the two dove into what Peter will be presenting on as well as the innovation and direction behind SearchMonke read more »
SearchMonkey Launch Party -- May 15
Date : 2008 05 08 Yahoo! Search BlogTwo weeks ago, we announced SearchMonkey, a new open developer platform that lets developers and site owners use semantic markup and structured data to enhance Yahoo! Search results and make them more useful, relevant and visually appealing. We wanted to remind you that we're kicking off this launch in tru read more »
A Safer Way to Search
Date : 2008 05 05 Yahoo! Search BlogToday, we're announcing the beta release of SearchScan, a new feature from Yahoo! Search that helps protect users from viruses, spyware and spam. We've heard from users that security and privacy continue to be major concerns when they are online. We've also learned that solutions that require downloads and read more »
Better Bookmarks for Firefox 3
Date : 2008 04 30 Yahoo! Search BlogThe del.icio.us team has been working on a new beta add-on for the also-still-in-beta Firefox 3 to give users easier and quicker access to information. While maintaining full compatibility with the previous add-on for Firefox 2, the latest version offers a few new features, which they've detailed in their pos read more »
Start Monkeying Around
Date : 2008 04 24 Yahoo! Search BlogIn February, we began talking about our plans to open up Yahoo! Search to Web site owners and all third party developers. This new developer platform, which we're calling SearchMonkey, uses data web standards and structured data to enhance the functionality, appearance and usefulness of search results. Specif read more »
Yahoo! Local Adds a Circle to Mark the Spot
Date : 2008 04 23 Yahoo! Search BlogTime is of the essence, so looking for that new restaurant or finding a local spa shouldn't add to your busy day. The Yahoo! Local team had that in mind when they rolled out a new feature to help everyone from the consummate explorer to the geographically-challenged find local businesses quicker and more easi read more »
In the City by the Bay for Web 2.0 Expo
Date : 2008 04 21 Yahoo! Search BlogWe're sending a number of our top technologists up the road to the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco this week. Among the 11 speakers across Yahoo!'s properties who'll be there, here's where you can find Ari Balogh, Yahoo! Chief Technology Officer, Neal Sample, Chief Architect of the Open Platform, and Dustin Whi read more »
Yahoo! Slurp 3.0
Date : 2008 04 14 Yahoo! Search BlogOver the past few weeks, we've been preparing for the latest version of the Yahoo! Search crawler with some infrastructure updates, which recently caused a variance in our crawl behavior. With everything now in place, the rollout has officially begun. The new Yahoo! Slurp 3.0 recognizes the same user-agent a read more »
See More on Yahoo! Maps
Date : 2008 04 11 Yahoo! Search BlogThe Yahoo! Maps team is happy to announce the single biggest imagery update on maps.yahoo.com since the program inception. While we've steadily added new cities around the world every month (over 500 now) since the beginning, we haven't made as much of a change in the US until today. Our latest release improv read more »
Track NCAA Scores on the Go with Yahoo! oneSearch
Date : 2008 03 24 Yahoo! Search BlogWith March Madness in full effect, the incessant score-checking is already underway. Yahoo! Mobile is making it a little easier to use search to keep up with your favorite teams. Now that you've got your bracket filled out and your old college T-shirt freshly pressed, it's go time. Will Western Kentucky read more »
Taking Search Assist to the Streets
Date : 2008 03 21 Yahoo! Search BlogBack in October, we launched Search Assist on the Yahoo! Search U.S. results page to help searchers formulate their queries when we detect they're having trouble and explore related concepts to find the page they're looking for. Since then, we've seen positive responses from the press and industry research fi read more »
A Search-Sized Bite Out of the Big Apple
Date : 2008 03 14 Yahoo! Search BlogSearch Engine Strategies is in New York next week and Yahoo! will be there to discuss everything from viral campaigns, to searcher behavior research, to next generation search. With nine panels, one keynote and a booth, we're ready to head to the Big Apple. While we've got several speakers attending across Y read more »
The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem
Date : 2008 03 13 Yahoo! Search BlogA few weeks ago, we began talking about the new Yahoo! Search open platform. Today, we're releasing more details about two important components of the initiative -- the developer platform as well as our support of a number of semantic web standards. The Data Web in Action While there has been remarkable prog read more »
A New Research Lab in Haifa
Date : 2008 03 12 Yahoo! Search BlogOne goal of Yahoo! Research is to develop leading-edge algorithms and technology that will power the next generation of search. In keeping with that commitment and to expand its global research capabilities, Yahoo! is opening a new Research Lab in Haifa, Israel. The lab will be focused on research and develo read more »
Yahoo! Maps Updated With New Data and Functionality!
Date : 2008 03 06 Yahoo! Search BlogWe’ve been working hard all winter long, and today, we’ve rolled out an update to Yahoo! Maps that delivers a number of improvements including; new neighborhood data,expanded worldwide coverage, and stylistic improvements. Some of the improvements you might notice as you test-drive our updated Ya read more »
Making Sitemaps Easier to Manage and Scale
Date : 2008 02 27 Yahoo! Search BlogToday, Yahoo!, along with Google and Microsoft, is announcing Cross-host submission for Sitemaps, which will make it easier for webmasters to manage their Sitemap submissions to the major search engines. With this announcement, webmasters can now submit Sitemaps that correspond to several differently-hosted w read more »