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Announcing the Winners of the SearchMonkey Developer Challenge
Date : 2008 07 11 Yahoo! Search BlogBack in May, we kicked off the SearchMonkey Developer Challenge. After hundreds of submissions over the course of a month, the contest came to a close a few weeks ago. Our all-star judges picked their favorite apps and today we're announcing the five winners: Innovative Structured Data - The StumbleUpo read more »
BOSS -- The Next Step in our Open Search Ecosystem
Date : 2008 07 09 Yahoo! Search BlogToday, Yahoo! Search is taking another step in extending the Yahoo! Open Strategy with the launch of Yahoo! Search BOSS, a web services platform that allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products by utilizing the same infrastructure and technology that powers Yahoo! Search. read more »
This Summer: Get Going with the New Upcoming
Date : 2008 07 01 Yahoo! Search BlogUpcoming has a new look and is ready to help you get out there and explore more. The team has launched a revamped version of the site, which showcases a sleek new interface and an increased range of event types. The new interface makes it easier for new users to find things to do, but still lets existing us read more »
Yahoo! Chats with Semantic Web Expert, Ben Adida
Date : 2008 06 24 Yahoo! Search BlogYahoo!'s plans to "open up" really started circulating at the beginning of this year. Not long after, Yahoo! Search announced its plans to support semantic mark-ups, specifically our crawler support for markups like RDFa and eRDF, as well as provided a glimpse into our open approach to search. As Yahoo! pr read more »
Party like a SearchMonkey in Paris and London
Date : 2008 06 20 Yahoo! Search BlogWe're inviting our developer friends overseas to hang with the SearchMonkey team - meet the experts, enjoy some drinks and food and share in ideas for using SearchMonkey. The events are occuring in parallel on June 25th at 6 p.m.: London: The SearchMonkey Developer event will be held at Wallace Space in Co read more »
del.icio.us Bookmarks for IE: Delivered
Date : 2008 06 19 Yahoo! Search BlogThe del.icio.us team has been busy with its recent GA release of bookmarks for Firefox 3, and today, they're making their extension for Internet Explorer generally available as well. Last month, we gave you an idea of the features associated with the early beta release. Head over to the del.icio.us blog for m read more »
Making Room for our New Addition
Date : 2008 06 16 Yahoo! Search BlogWe're expanding the Yahoo! Search Blog today to include news and developments from Yahoo! Local. Since we already share the latest in local search news, we thought it made sense to make things official. So, the Yahoo! Local Blog is shutting down and joining up with us to provide you with all the latest develo read more »
del.icio.us Bookmarks for Firefox 3 Officially Here
Date : 2008 06 10 Yahoo! Search BlogAt the end of April, the del.icio.us team announced a new beta add-on for Firefox 3 and after gathering some great feedback from those who had downloaded the extension, they're announcing its general availability. There are a number of performance and stability enhancements with this release of del.icio.us b read more »
Reminder: Submit your SearchMonkey Apps to the Challenge
Date : 2008 06 09 Yahoo! Search BlogThe June 14 deadline for the SearchMonkey Developer Challenge is fast approaching -- it's this Saturday! -- so we thought we'd share a friendly reminder to submit your applications this week for a chance to win in one of four categories: Best Enhanced Result Best Infobar Most Innovative Use of Structured D read more »
Wanted: Search Game Changers
Date : 2008 06 06 Yahoo! Search BlogYahoo! Search is changing the search game and we're looking for the brightest technical minds in the business to help us build the next generation of search. SearchMonkey is the first manifestation of our open strategy to increase the quality and relevance of the Yahoo! Search experience. And the Monkey is read more »
The Yahoo! Search Gallery is Open for Business
Date : 2008 06 04 Yahoo! Search BlogSearchMonkey is taking another step in its evolution with the public launch of the Yahoo! Search Gallery. Starting today, users and developers can visit the Search Gallery by clicking the "Customize" dropdown from the search results page. Today also marks the first day that developers and site owners can begi read more »
One Standard Fits All: Robots Exclusion Protocol for Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft
Date : 2008 06 03 Yahoo! Search BlogOver the last couple of years, we've been collaborating with Google and Microsoft to make webmasters' efforts more effective across the major search engines. By bringing standards such as Sitemaps and improvements like auto-discovery and cross-host submission, webmasters can simplify their account managemen read more »
Search in Seattle
Date : 2008 05 30 Yahoo! Search BlogSMX Advanced is right around the corner and the Yahoo! Search team is in on the Seattle action. If you're heading to the Bell Harbor International Conference Center as well, be sure to check out our panels. Tuesday, June 3rd Time: 1:30 - 2:45 p.m. Session: Bot Herding Description: This session looks at som read more »
Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Index Update
Date : 2008 05 27 Yahoo! Search BlogWe'll be rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the next few days, but expect the update will be completed soon. As you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index. To share your thoughts or check in with other Yahoo! read more »
The Party May Be Over, But the Monkeying Has Just Begun
Date : 2008 05 16 Yahoo! Search BlogThe SearchMonkey Developer Launch Party was last night and we all had a blast. Thanks to the 300 or so people who joined us! We enjoyed demoing the SearchMonkey Developer Tool, answering questions and getting to know an enthusiastic group of developers. The party is over but the monkeying around is just beg read more »
The Monkey is Out and the Challenge is On
Date : 2008 05 15 Yahoo! Search BlogIt's been three weeks since we began the limited preview of Yahoo! Search's new open developer platform, SearchMonkey. Today, we're officially opening up the doors to all developers -- professionals and hobbyists -- to begin building applications that enhance the usefulness and relevance of search results. T read more »
Internet Explorer Gets More del.icio.us
Date : 2008 05 13 Yahoo! Search BlogSince many del.icio.us users use Internet Explorer as their primary browser, the del.icio.us team has announced an early beta release of the del.icio.us bookmarks extension for Internet Explorer. There are similarities between this version and the recently released Firefox 3 beta extension -- including featur read more »