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Yahoo’s SearchMonkey — No Relation — Allows Custom Search Enhancements

By Paul Adams May 22, 2008 Categories: Platforms & APIs

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It’s not as universal or useful as microformats, but it’s nifty nonetheless.

If you maintain a commonly searched site, you can write a little search-enhancement app for your users to install in their Yahoo preferences. Thereafter, when your site pops up in their Yahoo searching, it gets a custom box with the info you want to present.

It works the other way too — as a searcher, you can make an app that grabs structured data from a site and presents it in an enhanced way. Or you can just browse the gallery of existing applications and add them to your search.

Opening development up to a motivated community, and adding machine-readable semantics to searching, is a very welcome development. Even if our monkey has a cooler haircut.

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