Posts under ‘Yahoo Search’

 
Today, we’re happy to announce that we’re turning on Citysearch and Zagat SearchMonkeyapplications for all users. Together with the Yelp and Yahoo! Local Enhanced Results, as well as theYahoo! 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 [...]

owadays it’s becoming a lot more rational. With gas prices up 71% compared to last year and no relief in sight, we thought a Yahoo! Search shortcut to help users find the cheapest gas in their area was in order.
Starting today, if you search for [gas prices + city name/zip code] or [cheap gas + city name/zip code], you’ll [...]

As part of Yahoo!’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month initiative, Yahoo! Search is announcing a new Infobar built on the SearchMonkey platform that will help Search users make donations to help find a cure for breast cancer without spending an extra dime. We teamed up with the non-profit organization Susan G. Komen for the Cure to build a SearchMonkey [...]

We’ve recently been testing a number of options for a new SearchMonkey Enhanced Results template. Today, we’re officially transitioning to a new layout. While the basic components of the templates are the same, you’ll notice that the deep links are now horizontally aligned under the title link and the image is now on the right-hand side. Why? Based on [...]

About a year ago Yahoo! Search launched a music artist shortcut to make it easier for users to find quick details about artists — like videos, photos, sample song tracks, and even their official website links — directly from the search results page. This evening, we’re rolling out some key enhancements as part of our partnership withRhapsody.
Now, in addition [...]

A few years ago, we launched Site Explorer with the goal of providing site owners with better visibility into how we index their websites and what data we use in our search service. Over the years we’ve moved beyond simply providing information to webmasters to allowing them to tell us what to do with their site, using [...]

The Yahoo! Mobile team has continued to develop new enhancements to make Yahoo! oneSearch easier and more effective for our users on the go. Today, we’re further enhancing the mobile search experience byrolling out a Yahoo! oneSearch shortcut for Nokia devices. This new shortcut provides users with one-click access to Yahoo! oneSearch through our downloadable client. Once installed, [...]

A few months back we announced the acquisition of Inquisitor software, which helped to extend our query suggestion features, similar to Yahoo!’s Search Assist, to the Mac community. We’ve been quietly working on enhancements since, and today we’re rolling out a new look, a few performance improvements and we’re also going global.
To start with we tapped into the [...]

In the past few months, SearchMonkey developers have told us they’d like to use Enhanced Results for site search. Yahoo! and other search engines have long had a site restrict operator (e.g. site:anysite.com) and other site search tools, but we decided to launch a new capability that lets you add a query parameter that automatically turns on [...]

Last month we opened up the Yahoo! Search Gallery to showcase all of the useful SearchMonkey applications that have been built by developers, site owners and Yahoo!. Today, we’re turning on a few of those applications for all users. Now, the Yelp, Yahoo! Local and LinkedIn Enhanced Results will automatically appear in the search results, eliminating the need for users to go into the Search Gallery to add [...]

Today, our teammates across the way rolled out the newest version of the social bookmarking site Delicious(formerly known as del.icio.us), which offers enhanced performance and search capabilities along with a brand new user interface. 
The Delicious team has detailed the changes on their blog, but here’s a quick look at what’s new:
Improved Performance – With a new more scalable [...]

Yahoo! Search recently made some significant enhancements for queries related to breaking news. The goal was to improve the freshness and recency of Search and show breaking news articles faster than before. 
Here’s how we improved things: 

Based on the newsworthiness of each query, we’re now displaying the News Direct Display (DD) in the most relevant position(s) on [...]

If you’ve been frequenting the Yahoo! Search Blog, you’ve certainly read about our initiatives for a more open ecosystem. Complimentary to that, we’ve discussed semantic web standards and how Yahoo! Search is supporting this technology. Just last week, Yahoo!’s Peter Mika dug a little deeper into the semantic web and explored how it’s helping to shape the next generation of search [...]