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Yahoo Open Search
1. Yahoo! Search
Open Ecosystem
BayCHI talk
Micah Alpern
Larry Cornett.
Design Director
VP Search Product
Search Ecosystem
2. What is Open Search?
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Search Technology (YST)
3. Search Today
10 Blue links
Limited Choice
• Three players dominate
the market, giving users
limited choice
• Neither site owners nor
searchers can exert much
influence on what
information is presented
5. Yahoo! Search Ecosystem
Ecosystems thrive
from win wins
• For Searchers
• Site Owners
• and Developers
Building a richer, more relevant, and more personal
search experience.
8. Opening search -
what does it mean?
• Clear win for: developers, site
owners, users and Yahoo!
• Go from “to-do” to “done”
BEFORE
AFTER
9. Site Owners
• Straight to the answers
• Increase in quality of site traffic
• Fosters loyalty and engagement
BEFORE
AFTER
Enhanced Results and Infobars:
Ratings and reviews, images, deep links, and
other name-value pairs.
10. Enhanced Result: what can a developer
build?
deep
links
images
name/value
pairs or
abstract
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11. SearchMonkey
An open platform for using structured data to
build more useful and relevant search results
After
Before
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12. The SearchMonkey Ecosystem
XML / API /
Display
RDFa Personalized
Publisher
SERP
Content
Submission
SearchMonkey
Users
Publishers
Templates/
PHP
Developer
Tool
Developers
13. Infobar: what can a developer build?
Pull in data
from any
web service
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