Seo Alchemist

Three weeks after announcing SearchMonkey and opening it up for a limited preview, Yahoo has finally made the Yahoo search results development platform open to all. To refresh our memories, Yahoo search monkey as an open ecosystem has three components:

• Site owners share structured data with Yahoo!, using semantic markup (microformats, RDF), standardized XML feeds, APIs (OpenSearch or other web services), and page extraction.
• Third party developers build SearchMonkey applications.
• Consumers customize their search experience.

And like I said in our previous coverage, SearchMonkey is similar to Yahoo Pipes for Yahoo’s search results page. Adding to what we already know, the Yahoo search blog added that we can build two types of applications using SearchMonkey - enhanced search results and Infobars. (more…)