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Yahoo Opens Up Search Technology Infrastructure for Innovative New Search Experiences Providing Third Parties with Unprecedented Access Re Ranking and Presentation Control of Web Search Results: related news

Yahoo! Opens Up Search Technology Infrastructure for Innovative, New Search Experiences, Providing Third Parties with Unprecedented Access, Re-Ranking and Presentation Control of Web Search Results

Consumer Service & Business Opportunity : Yahoo! Opens Up Search Technology Infrastructure for Innovative, New Search Experiences, Providing Third Parties with Unprecedented Access, Re-Ranking and Presentation Control of Web Search Results

Yahoo! Opens Up Search Technology Infrastructure for Innovative, New Search Experiences, Providing Third Parties with Unprecedented Access, Re-Ranking and Presentation Control of Web Search Results

Yahoo!'s New Open Web Services Platform, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Extends its Open Strategy and Fuels Disruption in the Search Landscape

Yahoo! Opens Up Search Technology Infrastructure for Innovative, New Search Experiences, Providing Third Parties with Unprecedented Access, Re-Ranking and Presentation Control of Web Search Results

Yahoo!'s New Open Web Services Platform, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Extends its Open Strategy and Fuels Disruption in the Search Landscape

Yahoo! Opens Up Search Technology Infras...

Yahoo! has introduced a new open Web services platform, Yahoo! Search BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service), which gives third parties access to Yahoo! Search Technology, including the ability to re-rank and control the presentation of Web search results, the company announced. Yahoo! Search BOSS, available now as an API in beta, enables developers and companies to build world-class custom search experiences and disrupt the search industry, the company said.

Yahoo! Opens Up Search Technology Infrastructure for Innovative, New Search Experiences, Providing Third Parties with Unprecedented Access, Re-Ranking and Presentation Control of Web Search Results

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Yahoo's Build Your Own Search Service

ruphus13 and other readers alerted us to Yahoo's BOSS, Build your Own Search Service. It gives access to Yahoo's entire databases for Web, image, and news search with no cap on queries per day and no restrictions on mixing Yahoo's search results with others or re-sorting them, and without Yahoo branding visible. From their blog announcement: "As anyone who follows the search industry knows, the barriers to successfully building a high quality, web-scale search engine are incredibly high. Doing so requires hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in engineering, sciences and core infrastructure — from crawling and indexing technology to relevancy and machine learning algorithms, to stuff as mundane as data centers, servers and power. Because competing successfully in web search requires an investment of this scale, new players have

Social Search Engine Scour.com Launches

Scour.com launched as a "meta" social search engine, which encourages voting and commentary on search engine query results called from Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Scour differentiates itself from other social search, ratings, and community sites in that it lets users vote and comment on search results, provides privacy control, gives weight to preferred engines, and lets people redeem search points for VISA gift cards. Scour pulls search results from the top three search engines. From there it relies on feedback to make the results ever more relevant. After enough votes on results, a search result can rise or fall in ranking which will make listings across all the engines more relevant on Scour.

Free Search Engine Marketing tips for businesses by leading web design company i

Free Search Engine Marketing tips for businesses by leading web design company i - Kronikmedia, a leading independent website Design Company based in London have launched a new search engine marketing and Ecommerce blog that offers up to date search engine marketing advice to businesses small or large. The Search engine marketing blog is regularly updated with new articles and practical search engine marketing and ecommerce advice that can help businesses understand the core search engine marketing concepts and increase sales and lead for their website. Search engine marketing is un0doubtably the most cost effective form of marketing available for businesses and offers a high return on investment. The blog has been set up to promote better understanding of search engine marketing and ecommerce principles.

Yahoo! Search BOSS

Yahoo! has announced a new open Web services platform, Yahoo! Search BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service), which gives third parties access to Yahoo! Search technology, including the ability to re-rank and control the presentation of Web search results.

Yahoo opens up search infrastructure to developers

The platform, available as an application programming interface, allows third parties to re-rank and control the presentation of their search results by giving those parties access to Yahoo's search infrastructure and technology. The framework also allows developers to blend search results from Yahoo's Web, news and image indexes with any other online data source.

Search Engine Marketing - Search Engine Optimization is Important

Search engine marketing is the process of using search engine optimization to make sure that your webpage consistently is at the top of the heap when customers and client do an Internet search for terms that are related to your product or service. When search engines send out spiders or bots to collect information about different websites that is then used to decide which web pages show up first in search listings these spiders and bots are looking for search engine optimized content, or SEO content. SEO content drives search engine marketing by repeating certain keywords or key phrases a certain number of times.

Yahoo Opens Search Technology

Yahoo has opened its search technology to third-party developers with Yahoo Search BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service). Yahoo expects BOSS to drive innovation and disrupt the search industry as companies build custom search experiences. Yahoo will look for ways to build revenue for itself and its BOSS partners.

Search Socially! -- Social Search Engine Scour.com Launches, Offers Incentives to Search, Vote, Comment and Refer

Blending the best of algorithmic and human powered search, Scour.com launched today as a meta social search engine which encourages voting and commentary on search engine query results called from Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Scour fosters community- building and enables discovery through user feedback, friends and groups while giving users control of the search parameters needed for accurate results based on their preferences.

New Search Marketing Blog, SearchFuel, Gives Marketers an Alternative Place to Fuel up

ST. LOUIS, BUSINESS WIRE -- Marketers have a new place to fuel up and add mileage to their marketing programs. SearchFuel (www.searchfuel.com), a new blog centered around search marketing and its influence in the media landscape, launched today with the purpose of serving as a regular, conversational resource for traditional and digital advertisers, media buyers and search marketers by providing unique industry insight about the search landscape and fuel discussion and debate of factors affecting advertisers and the industry. The blog will feature search perspective from talent across Outrider and the agency divisions of GroupM Search, including Beyond Interaction Search, MEC Interaction and MindShare Search.

Google Updates Search Appliance

Google announced a new version of the Google Search Appliance integrated hardware and software solution. In addition to capacity and performance improvements, the new Google Search Appliance offers improved search quality, enhanced personalization, security and language support. Features include: Indexes 10 million documents in a single appliance; Search across all enterprise content - Universal search capabilities for secure access to web servers, portals, file shares, databases, real-time business data, and enterprise content systems including EMC Documentum, IBM FileNet, OpenText Livelink, and Microsoft SharePoint; Personalization - New scoring policies allow administrators to adjust search results for different user groups, based on department or function; Advanced Biasing - Administrators can now bias results based on metadata; Alert

Prominent Search Authorities Tee'd Up for Full-Day Search Training at Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Jose 2008

Search marketers frustrated by the dearth of real hands-on education in navigating the ever-changing world of search and social media should look no further than the Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Jose Training Day, August 22, 2008. This day of intensive training in search engine marketing and search engine optimization (SEM/SEO) includes six highly informative sessions at the San Jose Marriott. The training immediately follows the SES San Jose Conference & Expo scheduled for August 18-21, 2008.

Flash Search Being Enabled By Google, Yahoo; Images/Video Still Not Searchable

In a major step forward in search technology, Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is working with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) to make Flash files searchable in online search. The project will enable searches on Flash content to return text and links, which can then be indexed, and hence available in search results for the users. Content from a Flash application or even a game or advertisement will be available to search engines, reports InfoWorld. Pages containing a Flash .SWF file will be returned in a search. Google has already implemented this, while Yahoo, ever the laggard, will enable Flash search in a future version, whenever that comes out.

"Cuil" Search Engine Launches

Cuil (pronounced COOL), a technology company, launched its search offering, which combines a web index with content-based relevance methods, results organized by ideas, and complete user privacy. Cuil has indexed 120 billion web pages and provides organized and relevant results based on web page content analysis. It organizes similar search results into groups and sorts them by category. Cuil gives users a display of results and offers organizing features, such as tabs to clarify subjects, images to identify topics, and search refining suggestions to help guide users to the results they seek. Cuil’s features include: a magazine-style layout that separates results by subject and allows further search by concept or category, results ranked by the content on each page, and privacy protection.

Russian search engine Yandex unveils online video search

Russian search engine group Yandex has launched the public beta of Yandex.Video. Service users can search and share videos clips online, as well as view the most popular videos. Yandex.Video currently searches about twenty video hosting services including youtube.com, rutube.ru, video.mail.ru, smotri.com and myvi.ru. The service's video search method is based on analysis of names, tags, descriptions and other video clip attributes. Search results are ranked according to user ratings. Yandex.Video continuously updates the most popular videos shown on its front page, as it receives information about new comments and new videos posted in blogs from Yandex's Blog Search service. Service users can upload an unlimited amount of video files and create their own favourite lists.

Adobe Advances Rich Media Search on the Web

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced the company is teaming up with search industry leaders to dramatically improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs). Adobe is providing optimized Adobe(R) Flash(R) Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search engines. This will provide more relevant automatic search rankings of the millions of RIAs and other dynamic content that run in Adobe Flash Player. Moving forward, RIA developers and rich Web content producers won't need to amend existing and future content to make it searchable -- they can now be confident it can be found by users around the globe.

Adobe Advances Rich Media Search on the Web

SAN JOSE, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the company is teaming up with search industry leaders to dramatically improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs). Adobe is providing optimized Adobe(R) Flash(R) Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search engines. This will provide more relevant automatic search rankings of the millions of RIAs and other dynamic content that run in Adobe Flash Player. Moving forward, RIA developers and rich Web content producers won't need to amend existing and future content to make it searchable -- they can now be confident it can be found by users around the globe.

Adobe Advances Rich Media Search on the Web

SAN JOSE, Calif. (Business Wire) -- Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the company is teaming up with search industry leaders to dramatically improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs). Adobe is providing optimized Adobe(R) Flash(R) Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search engines. This will provide more relevant automatic search rankings of the millions of RIAs and other dynamic content that run in Adobe Flash Player. Moving forward, RIA developers and rich Web content producers won't need to amend existing and future content to make it searchable -- they can now be confident it can be found by users around the globe.

Bay Area Marketers Welcome Back Popular Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Jose 2008 Conference

In the hottest region for technical innovation, marketers converge this summer at the premier Search Engine Marketing Conference and Exposition Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Jose 2008. The premier search industry event runs August 18-21, 2008, at the San Jose Convention Center. The popular conference features over 70 panels and sessions on timely topics, including universal search, blended search, local search, video search engine marketing, social media optimization and more.

Bay Area Marketers Welcome Back Popular Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Jose 2008 Conference

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 2008--In the hottest region for technical innovation, marketers converge this summer at the premier Search Engine Marketing Conference and Exposition Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Jose 2008. The premier search industry event runs August 18-21, 2008, at the San Jose Convention Center. The popular conference features over 70 panels and sessions on timely topics, including universal search, blended search, local search, video search engine marketing, social media optimization and more.

Search Socially! -- Social Search Engine Scour.com Launches, Offers Incentives to Search, Vote, Comment and Refer

SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. - Blending the best of algorithmic and human powered search, Scour.com launched today as a meta social search engine which encourages voting and commentary on search engine query results called from Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Scour fosters


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