Posted by Gregor J. Rothfuss, Maps Team and Kevin Marks, Apps Team If you have spent any time in certain corners of the web, you will have heard of Microformats: Clever uses of HTML that add machine readability to everyday web pages while preserving h…
In the last few weeks Yahoo has launched Search Suggest and they re testing an enhanced version of this called Search Assist. This is part of a growing trend of using AJAX in search. Yahoo s new tools are really useful they help you complete your search query as you start typing. Search assist goes a step further by suggesting related terms using some old Alta Vista technology called Prisma. The search suggest technology has been done by others but it s nice to see a major search engine offering this feature I really like it. Incidentally I think, as well as improving the user experience it could have a positive impact on Yahoo s revenues from paid search… The suggestions that are shown will be popular queries that they have seen before. This will mean that these will become more popular and there will be less people searching in the tail. The more popular search terms are monetized better than the tail terms because there is more competition for them. Yahoo could give more weight to search terms that have higher bids although this would have to be done carefully to ensure it didn t negatively impact the user experience. When I tried this I noticed the search suggest tool is only on the home page, not on the search results page. It would be nice if it was there too. As an aside I remember talking to Alta Vista about the Prisma technology years ago before they were acquired by Yahoo. They were considered replacing the Prisma technology with our Related Search technology but we never quite got a deal worked out.
Posted by Brian Kennish, Support Engineer, Ad APIsWe re planning to refresh the Sandbox again tomorrow at 3 p.m. PDT. As a result, it ll be unavailable for several hours and all associated data cleared. You can regenerate your client accounts afterwar…
In the last few weeks Yahoo has launched Search Suggest and they re testing an enhanced version of this called Search Assist. This is part of a growing trend of using AJAX in search. Yahoo s new tools are really useful …
If you were unabel to make it to Orlando and were jsut dying to catch the MSCOM Operations Presentation Microsoft.com: Employing Windows Server 2008 and Internet Information Services 7 As A Next Generation Platform for SaaS Web Applications , here is… read more
With all of the excitement around Google Developer Day, we didn t have a chance to tell you about a subtle point regarding the launch of the Google Mashup Editor: the editor s front end was built using the Google Web Toolkit GWT . Given that, we invit…
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Continuing the torrential pace of new software, we have released a playlist page, a new player for thirty second samples, and the ability to play subscription tracks in the browser. All of this software is somewhat beta. Until a few weeks ago, when you opened a playlist created in Yahoo! Music Jukebox in the browser you …
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