searchmonkey - monkeying around with search
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Monkeying around with Yahoo Search
what is it?
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Before After
an open platform for using structured data to build more useful and relevant search results
what can you do with it?
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Enhanced Results
Infobar
Reconfigures the search results itself
Adds a expandable pane below the result containing additional information
How does it work?
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Acme.com’s database
Index
RDF/Microformat Markup
site owners/publishers share structured data with Yahoo!. 1
consumers customize their search experience with Enhanced Results or Infobars 3
site owners & third-party developers build SearchMonkey apps. 2
DataRSS feed
Web Services
Page Extraction
Acme.com’s Web Pages
Enhanced Result: what might a developer build?
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images
deep links
name/value pairs or abstract
Infobar: what might a developer build?
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Pull in data from any web service
Infobar: what might a developer build?
Open canvas for HTML
Infobar: what might a developer build?
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the SearchMonkey Developer Tool
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Developer Tool Demo
Everything SearchMonkey: developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey
mailing lists – [email protected] – [email protected]
forums – http://suggestions.yahoo.com/searchmonkey – http://suggestions.yahoo.com/datarss
data/partners
resources
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questions?