Comments on: Let SearchMonkey Feed Your Facebook Addiction

By: Senthil

Senthil — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 06:32:14 +0000

I cannot see my FaceBook profile on Yahoo! Search…

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu4pywrBJ3ksA7EJXNyoA?p=Senthil+Murugappan&fr=

By: Ian M

Ian M — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:02:23 +0000

“Search Monkey is great! Please sell it to Google!”

No – create a public standard with the other search engines, so that all search engines can implement it.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:54:22 +0000

Search Monkey is great! Please sell it to Google!

By: Sarven Capadisli

Sarven Capadisli — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 07:20:43 +0000

I had a false alarm earlier and managed to get it working properly. The problem turned out to be microformats data (i.e., the “Input”) not always being available to result items. Hopefully, the Input data will be consistent in the future.

I can no longer see the Facebook “semantic” results. What happened? I’d like to see Facebook’s hCards :)

By: 2009 öss

2009 öss — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:59:29 +0000

I dont like facebook. So ı have no membership :)

By: Sarven Capadisli

Sarven Capadisli — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:08:02 +0000

In my latest tests, Yahoo Search Monkey appears to fail on picking hCard data if the indexed page contains multiple hCards. Is anyone else experiencing this? Is this currently documented anywhere? Can I document it somewhere? I’ve tested with http://identi.ca/csarven (Try grabbing vcard.2 fn or photo). Thanks.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:25:11 +0000

I can see this evolving even further down the road to simply the user experience. This recent change will most likely get more people interacting.

By: Evan Goer

Evan Goer — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:43:01 +0000

Yes, just to clarify — as the first paragraph implies, the Facebook SearchMonkey app is default on for all users.

Niall — good point about the duplicate INTL content, particularly if you do searches of the form “site:facebook.com “. We need to look into this.

Bertil — interesting idea! There is a Skype Facebook app, but as far as I know, the Skype button doesn’t appear on the *public* Facebook profile page, which is what powers the SearchMonkey result. Facebook would have to think carefully about how such a feature would work in practice.

Evan Goer
Yahoo! SearchMonkey Team

By: 花蓮民宿

花蓮民宿 — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:55:11 +0000

I don’t remember adding it.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:36:08 +0000

Very cool feature, much appreciated. I prefer FB to any other social site so this makes it that much easier to network.
Ryan