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New application: Key Terms Search

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A very simple example of the new BOSS Key Terms API: enter a search query, and see the relevant words and phrases: Search Key Terms Some examples: perl “Dave Grohl” “Curb Your Enthusiasm”

Write your own search engine: Hack event in London tonight!

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Are you around London this evening? Fancy learning how to leverage Yahoo’s new BOSS search API? BOSS – Build (your) Own Search Service is Yahoo’s new API which allows you to build a search engine based on our systems. It is one of the first steps to make Yahoo! much more open for you to [...]

Yahoo Glue – a richer search experience

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Tired of a list of blue links after performing a search? Yahoo! Glue is now in Beta on the India search site, and it shows how search can be enhanced by related content. An example search for “taj mahal“, for instance, pulls up Flickr pictures and a Wikipedia link along with traditional search results. Pretty [...]

Search safely

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Yahoo search has now integrated McAfee’s SiteAdvisor into it’s search engine which means dodgy sites serving up spam and malware are flagged up: SearchScan – Search with confidence at Yahoo!

Yahoo! SearchMonkey Developer Preview

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As part of Yahoo’s plan to open up their search technology to external developers, a new tool called SearchMonkey is now being previewed. SearchMonkey allows you to add data services that can be used to present richer, more useful search results. Sign up for more information: Yahoo! SearchMonkey: Oooh ooh oooh

Yahoo! search results now include improved language meta data

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Search results on Yahoo now include the HTML lang attribute which has important consequences for screen readers: If you do not see the text but you get it read out to you then the pronounciation is very important. Visually impaired surfers use screen readers to tell them what is on the current page, and by [...]

The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem

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A few weeks ago, we began talking about the new Yahoo! Search open platform. Today, we’re releasing more details about two important components of the initiative — the developer platform as well as our support of a number of semantic web standards. Yahoo! Search Blog: The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem

Monitoring your online presence with Google Alerts

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If you are interested in monitoring your online presence, or simply for a laugh, you can be alerted whenever your name is mentioned on a website. Here’s how: visit Google Alerts enter your name within double quotes in the Search terms box. e.g. “glen scott” enter your e-mail address in the Your email box Now, [...]