Get Local with SearchMonkey
- Posted October 16th, 2008 at 9:00 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: SearchMonkey
Today, 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 ever before.
For example, Citysearch’s app provides ratings, hours of operation, addresses and phone numbers for millions of restaurants directly on the search results page. It also includes deep links to each restaurant’s profile, user-generated reviews and a map, so users can get directly to the answer they’re seeking. To see the app in action, try a search for slanted door san francisco or cones new york.
We’ve also seen the number and quality of applications in the Yahoo! Search Gallery continue to climb and improve. Here are a couple recent additions we particularly like:
Take a look at the recently developed Infobar for TV.com. The app displays the next air date of a television show, user rating, summary of the show, and links to videos, photos and reviews, as well as information about the cast. Try a search for Dancing with the Stars.
Chris Lindsey recently built a great Infobar for Food Network results. It displays some essential info about recipes, like cook time and level of difficulty, and includes a deep link taking users directly to a printer-friendly page. Nice work, Chris!
We’re pleased with all of the new apps that have been developed and we’re looking forward to what new ideas and innovations the development community will come up with. If you have any ideas for apps that would improve the search experience or you’ve built something you want to let us know about, add a comment below.
The SearchMonkey Team
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As a real estate agent, “local” is pretty much my business. Kudos Yahoo! Anything that = Local + Search is good in my book.
This is a great feature & one I hope remains regardless of how things shake out with Bing. Would love to see the citysearch.com spam get removed now though.
I can’t believe you are promoting citysearch. I try to get reviews from there site and then have to close Internet explorer just to get back to yahoo. It awful.
I really like these results. The multiple links are really helpful. However, I have to agree with the last comment. Citysearch appears to be blocking people from getting out of their site after you click the review button. While this probably helps drive ad clicks within their site – I think it’s really poor user experience.
The multiple links are really helpful. However, I have to agree with the last comment.