Yahoo Adds Facebook As A SearchMonkey Friend

Feb 26, 2009 at 11:01am ET by Matt McGee

Thanks to Yahoo's SearchMonkey, you'll be able to poke your friends right from a page of Yahoo search results. Yahoo has announced that Facebook enhanced results are now turned on by default across Yahoo search results. This means that any Facebook user who has allowed his/her profile to be publicly viewable and searchable can now be seen in the Yahoo search results with enhanced Facebook data. Here's an enhanced result for Danny Sullivan: The main link points to Danny's Facebook profile, and there are additional links to add Danny as a friend, view his friends, send him a message, a [...]

Filed in: Search Features: Enhanced Listings, Yahoo: Search, Yahoo: Search Monkey

Yahoo Shows Wikipedia Some SearchMonkey Love

Jan 15, 2009 at 12:01pm ET by Matt McGee

Yahoo has just announced that the Wikipedia SearchMonkey App is now turned on by default for all Yahoo search users. Wikipedia becomes the sixth app that all Yahoo searchers will see, joining LinkedIn, Yelp, Yahoo Local, Citysearch, and Zagat. SearchMonkey adds enhanced content to the search results page. The Wikipedia app includes a snippet of text from the Wikipedia article summary, deep links to the first four sections of the article, and a photo if the article has one. Here's a screenshot that Yahoo provided showing the Wikipedia app in action: With the new app, Yahoo now joins G [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: Wikipedia, Search Features: Enhanced Listings, Top News, Yahoo: Search, Yahoo: Search Monkey

Google Testing Enhanced Listings, “Pagelinks” & Auto-Spelling Correction

Dec 12, 2008 at 10:33pm ET by Danny Sullivan

Google is testing a number of changes to its search results, including a way for select publishers to enhance their page descriptions, a way for searchers to jump to sub-sections of a web page and automatically correcting misspelled queries, to some degree.  Enhanced Listings The most dramatic of the changes involving reviews of products and services that appear on Yelp, Citysearch, CNET, TripAdvisor and Download.com. The system, which Google has yet to give an official name, allows these publishers to flag data on their web pages that can be extracted and shown within the page's [...]

Filed in: Google: SEO, Google: Sitelinks, Google: User Interface, Google: Web Search, Search Features: Enhanced Listings, Top News

Yahoo Adds Local Content To Search Results Via SearchMonkey

Oct 17, 2008 at 3:21pm ET by Matt McGee

Yahoo has announced the addition of more local business content to their web search results thanks to Yahoo's SearchMonkey program. Yahoo has turned on the SearchMonkey applications for both Citysearch and Zagat; users don't have to opt-in to see enhanced content from those sites -- it's now turned on by default for all users. In fact, four of the five on-by-default SearchMonkey applications have local content. In addition to Citysearch and Zagat, Yahoo Local and Yelp are also showing enhanced listings for all users. (The fifth on-by-default app is LinkedIn.) This is big news for local b [...]

Filed in: SEO: Local, Search Features: Enhanced Listings, Top News, Yahoo: Search Monkey

Wikia Search Releases Third Party Search Enhancement Platform

Oct 8, 2008 at 12:01am ET by Chris Sherman

Wikia Search, the "open source" search engine that launched to great fanfare earlier in the year, has introduced a new platform (Wikia Intelligent Search Extensions or “WISE”) that allows third parties to provide an enhanced search result—known as a “WISEApp”—for specific keywords. WISEApps allow publishers or searchers to enhance search results, in a similar way to Yahoo's Search Monkey or Google's SiteLinks enhancements. For example, the Washington Post WISEApp provides people searching for specific information, such as “Barack Obama” or “John McCain”, with relevant [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: Other Search Engines, Search Engines: Search Wikia, Search Features: Enhanced Listings

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