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Yahoo! Opens up Search Platform

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This open search platform enables 3rd parties to build and present the next generation of search results. There are a number of layers and capabilities that we have built into the platform, but our intent is clear — present users with richer, more useful search results so that they can complete their tasks more efficiently and get from “to do” to “done.”

Yahoo! Search Blog: An Open Approach to Search

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Updated: Yahoo! Maps plug-in

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Plug-inI’ve updated the plug-in so it’s now a Universal Binary:

Yahoo! Maps Plug-in for Apple Address Book

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Search engine snippets, part 2

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This is a follow-up to my earlier post, Search engine snippets. My site has now got a meta description tag and Google and Yahoo have both picked up on it:

Google:

Google snippet for glenscott.co.uk

Yahoo:

Yahoo snippet for glenscott.co.uk

Google shows just the content of the meta description tag, whilst Yahoo also adds some content from the top of my blog.

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Instant Messaging 2.0

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An interesting post on how different IM providers are embracing open standards:

Consider that everyone IMs. Websites come and go – but IM remains. What’s important about that is that your social network persists over many, many years. My friendster buddy list is essentially useless – since I no longer use that site. But my AIM buddy list, which I still use, has been around for over 10 years. And with XMPP, it’s now reusable. It could become the standard machine-readable way to represent a social network.

IM 2.0

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Search engine snippets

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An interesting comparison of what content the two main search engines have chosen to display for my blog:

Google:

Google search result for 'glen scott'

Yahoo!:

Yahoo! search result for 'glen scott'

Google seems to have just picked up the footer of my site , whereas Yahoo has picked up the header, some post content and the footer.

At the moment, there is no meta description on the page which I’ll add soon to see how the listings change.

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Yahoo! reject Microsoft bid

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What’s Yahoo’s plan B?

It’s highly likely that we’ve already heard Yahoo’s plan B on its earnings conference call just before the Microsoft bid. Given that fact this Yahoo rejection is really just the start of negotiations. Yahoo has turned down Microsoft, but the game is far from over.

Yahoo reportedly says no to Microsoft, but the game is far from over

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