Posts in the SearchMonkey category

Today we’re making some important announcements on the transition of our Search back-end infrastructure to Microsoft, and how this transition will affect the Search APIs and web services we offer.

We know you may have questions related to today’s announcement about DOJ and EC clearance of the Yahoo! and Microsoft search agreement. We don’t have all the answers today, but we will provide updates for developers as soon as we can.

Ever wonder how SearchMonkey generates all of this structured data for use in projects like Enhanced Results, Object Facets, Site Facets, BOSS, and ranking? Have you wondered what Yahoo envisions as “a web of concepts”, or how SearchMonkey is helping Yahoo! power its next generation of search experiences? Or perhaps you were searching for “rickroll [...]

We are pleased to announce that on June 18-19, Yahoo! is sponsoring our first VoCamp event at our main campus in Sunnyvale, CA. What is VoCamp? As the name indicates, VoCamp is influenced by BarCamp, although VoCamp’s emphasis is tilted towards hands-on technical work and practical output. VoCamp provides a two day forum for vocabulary [...]

In a blog post earlier this year, we announced that people could search for just entries with specific microformats. There are 2 things we’d like to announce regarding that: We now support adr, geo and tag microformats. Yay! In the name of progress, we have added an extra namespace to the IDs to make room [...]

Updated: Spanish and Portuguese translation of tutorials added. One of SearchMonkey’s niftier features is the ability to create custom data services that uses XSLT to extract structured data from a site’s markup. If you don’t own the site in question, this is a great way to extract meaningful information and use it to build a [...]

In case you were looking for a little light reading on a Monday, our own architect Peter Mika has just published an article in the latest print issue of Nodalities. Peter’s article, titled Anatomy of a SearchMonkey, dives into the architecture and thinking behind the SearchMonkey project, and how SearchMonkey applies to semantic data on [...]

Yahoo! Search is now extracting RDFa data across the World Wide Web and making this information available to the public via SearchMonkey. RDFa is an open standard for embedding structured data directly in HTML. Along with our previous support for eRDF and a number of popular microformats, SearchMonkey now supports a wide variety of popular [...]

In July, we bucket tested a new template design for Enhanced Result applications. Developers do not have to take any actions to use this new redesign; all Enhanced Result applications will upgrade automatically. Important: Infobar applications will be unaffected. The original SearchMonkey post contains examples of both the old and the new SearchMonkey Enhanced Result [...]

For those of you who are interested in learning more about how structured data fits in with SearchMonkey and Yahoo! Search strategy, please tune in to the latest Semantic Web Gag podcast to hear our very own Peter Mika discussing topics such as: how SearchMonkey is helping to motivate large site owners to use semantic [...]

In this article, I’ll go over XSLT and RDF–two of the fundamental concepts that power SearchMonkey. If you’re looking to build your first app or you’ve built a few and want to get more out of it, you’ll definitely want to read on.

If you’ve been waiting ’till now to build a SearchMonkey application, you’re in luck — we’re pleased to announce that two intrepid SearchMonkey developers have independently created some great tutorials to help you get started.

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 the SearchMonkey Enhanced Result for the site you’re searching.

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.

We are testing a new template design for Enhanced Result applications. This new template contains two key design improvements that stem directly from recent Yahoo! user research.