Monkeying around with Yahoo Search

what is it?

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Before After

an open platform for using structured data to build more useful and relevant search results

what can you do with it?

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Enhanced Results

Infobar

Reconfigures the search results itself

Adds a expandable pane below the result containing additional information

How does it work?

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Acme.com’s database

Index

RDF/Microformat Markup

site owners/publishers share structured data with Yahoo!. 1

consumers customize their search experience with Enhanced Results or Infobars 3

site owners & third-party developers build SearchMonkey apps. 2

DataRSS feed

Web Services

Page Extraction

Acme.com’s Web Pages

Enhanced Result: what might a developer build?

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images

deep links

name/value pairs or abstract

Infobar: what might a developer build?

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Pull in data from any web service

Infobar: what might a developer build?

Open canvas for HTML

Infobar: what might a developer build?

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the SearchMonkey Developer Tool

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Developer Tool Demo

Everything SearchMonkey: developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey

mailing lists –  searchmonkey-developers@yahoogroups.com –  searchmonkey-siteowners@yahoogroups.com

forums –  http://suggestions.yahoo.com/searchmonkey –  http://suggestions.yahoo.com/datarss

data/partners

resources

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questions?