Famous Landmarks Get the Flickr Treatment in Yahoo! Search
- Posted May 10th, 2007 at 9:01 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: Flickr
We recently added thumbnails of Flickr images for popular domestic and international landmark searches into Yahoo! Search. Now you can easily find amazing and unique photos of your favorite landmarks. Try it with Empire State Building, Chichen Itza, and Machu Picchu for example.
With the help of Flickr Interestingness, we are now able to surface some of the most beautiful, creative, and popular photos from the Flickr community directly into the search results. Clicking on the thumbnails will take you to Flickr where you can explore further, set up your own account, and share your best shots too. This feature adds to the popular Flickr integration for funny photos and interesting photos on Yahoo! Search.
Whether you are planning a trip to see the Colosseum, Seattle Space Needle, or Pyramids, want to rekindle memories of past trips to the Sydney Opera House, Mount Shasta, or Tower Bridge, or have pride for your local landmark (for me it’s the beauty of the Golden Gate Bridge) we think you’ll be awed by the Flickr community’s photos.
We plan to continue the expansion of this experience and very much welcome your ideas and thoughts.
Carlos Teran
Yahoo! Search
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This is a very practical idea…Flickr photos are beautiful….but in all fairness, Photobucket should be added to (as well as other gems).
Information sharing to a global public necessitates, that no valid quality resource be bypassed.
Clever move! It’s nice to see you integrating your web 2.0 properties to create search results more “interesting” than Google SERPs. Looking forward to more. ;-)
I like the idea. In fact I wasn’t surprised. It should have happend befor but better late then never…
That’s very cool idea. I remember Google doing similar thing, but not sure when it works. Anyway good to see Yahoo Search bringing up such beautiful pictures.
Great idea. I have two questions…
1. Can we see the list of all landmarks that are thumbnailed into Yahoo! Search with this mechanism?
2. Is the photographer informed if Yahoo! Search indexes a thumbnail of one of their landmark photos?
Andy Frazer
http://gorillasites.blogspot.com
I like the creativity. I wasn’t surprised this would have happen before but it happen tooo lateeeee….
Flickr is providing good photos and it willl boost yahoo images also…………
Very cool idea! Flickr is really turning into a great service as well.
The flickr’s photos are very nice.
Flickr still has some work to do in my opinion. Good to know that the image search is being constantly updated though :).
The flickr’s photos are very nice.
That’s very cool idea. I remember Google doing similar thing, but not sure when it works. Anyway good to see Yahoo Search bringing up such beautiful pictures.
Jatin Sharma
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i see this Flicr in every second blogs but no idea where to get it? please guide me i need to put Flicr on my website.
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Is flickr any script or its just a site where we can share our pics?
Love to be included in your “Inexpensive (but good)” resource list! Sums us up well, I think!
Flickr is become more popular now. I saw there is a plugin so you can insert Flickr picture into your blogs as well.
its nice to see this Flicr in every second blogs but no idea where to get it? please guide me i need to put on my website.
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i cant Get the Flickr Treatment in Yahoo