See More SearchMonkey in Your Search Results
- Posted August 28th, 2009 at 8:00 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: SearchMonkey
Want a little more SearchMonkey in your Yahoo! search results? Starting today, more enhanced results for product, local, entertainment, reference, social, and tech sites will appear automatically in your results, putting more information and answers right at your fingertips.
First, we’d like to thank everyone who deployed microformats, RDFa, and feeds in response to our blog post in May. Thanks to your efforts, we’ve finished user testing for the new enhanced results templates and have deployed these templates in production. This means that in addition to Video, Documents, and Games, you can now add Products, Local Businesses, Event, Discussions, or News items to your pages. Anyone who provides structured data according to the specified format will automatically gain SearchMonkey default-on status, as long as it adheres to our terms of use.
For example, here are some results you’ll see when you search for products:
Here are some results you’ll see when you search for local businesses:
You can see the ratings, number of reviews, phone number, and address for local businesses right on the search results page. You can also see the ratings, price, and number of reviews for products, helping you decide which page fits your interest most, and find what you’re looking for faster.
In addition to these SearchMonkey templates, we’re also releasing a number of custom SearchMonkey default-on applications. Entertainment buffs will be particularly excited about a few of the Entertainment apps, including RottenTomatoes, Netflix, IMDB, and Yahoo! Movies.
The following are just a couple of examples you’ll see when you search for entertainment-related info:
Beyond entertainment, we’re also automatically turning on results for high performing sites in as the social networking, reference, and download categories. The list includes Friendster, Britannica, and FileHippo.
We laud the efforts that developers everywhere have put into developing the SearchMonkey ecosystem and their contribution toward improving the search experience for users.
Great apps are built every week so look forward to even more SearchMonkey in your search results in the future – we’re looking forward to it, too.
Yi-An Lin and Nick Cox
Senior Product Manager
Yahoo! Search
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I like the Yahoo Buzz! searchmonkey the most!
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whats the point if bling bling bing takes over? I would hope these types of innovations continue but have my doubts.
“whats the point if bling bling bing takes over?”
One of the side-effects of releasing this now is that it will be much harder for Bing to kill them off if they’ve already got widespread usage.
And, of course, the deal might still fall through.
When this service becomes available on other sites and across all local Yahoo! versions ?
This is great feature I’m trying to use it hope I do the right, wait to see result
Great Search Feature, Wait to see if this should slow down the searching.
Thanks documants
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It looks really nice , Thanks to Yahoo for this feature .
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I like simple !
How do I use searchmonkey and how can I promote products there?
Competition in the marketplace results in better products. Glad to see Yahoo keeping up the search innovations. Cool! What will be next?
Yes, if we didn’t have innovative products coming on line regularly, we would never progress and life would get exceedingly dull. Competition keeps us on our toes.
if somebody’s still thinks yahoo is an inocent place… well with all the additional efforts, yahoo is oto Video, Documents, and Games, you can now add Products, Local Businesses, Event, Discussions, or News items to your pages. Anyone who provides structured data according to the specified form
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