Gluing Together the Best Content on the Web
- Posted November 19th, 2008 at 5:30 pm by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: News/Announcements
You may have heard about our experimental visual display of search results on Yahoo! India, called Glue(TM) Pages. Tonight we’re launching a similar, but slightly different experience in the U.S. with Yahoo! Glue(TM) beta. This newest iteration is a standalone experience focused on assembling useful information from all over the Web, giving users a new place to discover and explore images, videos, articles and more.
We’re starting with a limited set of topics (more will be added over time), pulling together content from the best places on the Web onto one Yahoo! Glue(TM) page. These pages are built using an algorithm that automatically places the most relevant modules on a page, giving you a visually rich, diverse page all about the topic in which you’re interested.
To see it in action, check out some of the Glue pages on some popular people, places and things: New York Giants, Henry Paulson, Electoral College, Hugh Jackman, etc.
For those that may be wondering, our intention with Yahoo! Glue(TM) beta is not to replace the Yahoo! Search experience in the US. We’re always challenging ourselves to explore innovative new ways to deliver great experiences. Glue is one of those experiments, with a goal of giving users one more visual way to browse and discover new things from across the Web. We’ll be working to expand the number of Glue pages, improve the experience and incorporate your feedback into future versions.
We’ll be rolling this out over the next few hours, so go ahead and give it a try at glue.yahoo.com. We think it’s pretty sticky (we had to have one “glue” pun in this post), and we’d love your feedback.
Julie Demsey
Yahoo! Glue Product Management
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I can understand the need to “nofollow” Wikipedia, as it’s a horrible source of information (you link to their awful Hobbit article in your “Hobbit Movie” query, for example).
But why did you “nofollow” the links to whitehouse.gov?
That is really cool. I wish I could suggest topics to be glued. Would you consider that?
I like the variation of results this shows. I think it will be a useful tool
I’m always interested in new tools with a new approach for search. How popular do you need to be to be “glued”? Is it optional? How deep into the ranking will it work?
An interesting idea, but I would recommend presenting a list of all the current glued topics.
Many of my blog articles appear in glue yet you nofollow all of the links to them… not cool Yahoo.
I have to echo the concerns stated above about the use of ‘nofollow’ even on content where attribution is clearly appropriate and due. This seems like black-hat SEO, an attempt to create a ‘black hole’ site that takes good content and sucks in link juice… I have emailed several times about this but got no response.
Is there going to be an API for this? Anything is better than Mahalo.
I’ve got lots of pages across my network of sites listed in glue pages but don’t seem to have any control over what you show from my sites.
Is there a way of removing sites from this?
This is really where the future of advertising is at. Banner ads are ok but when you bring together usefull information, update and make it sticky to the point that people want to come back for the latest updates then you have a winning formula.