Since launching SearchMonkey last May and Yahoo! Search BOSS last July, we?ve reached some impressive milestones: BOSS is now serving 30 million queries a day, and SearchMonkey is celebrating its first anniversary with 70 million enhanced results viewed daily. Along the way, we?ve made great headway in opening up Yahoo! Search by accelerating the adoption of [...]

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Finding a great image online elicits a little thrill, but it can be tricky - if you?re looking for a pic to pop into a presentation or illustrate a Web page, you need to know if you?re allowed to use that photo, and how you can use it. Today, Yahoo! Image Search is launching a [...]

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Working on the new Yahoo! Search sports team shortcut has made me a new sports fan (I?m still mourning over the Celtics? loss). Being a new fan, I?ve also learned how hectic it can be to follow your favorite professional and college sports teams. That?s exactly why we developed the new sports team shortcut. Starting today, [...]

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Today we welcome Yoelle Maarek to Yahoo! as Senior Director of Yahoo! Research. She will be leading the Yahoo! Lab in Haifa, Israel along with Ronny Lempel. Their teams help further Yahoo!?s commitment to discovering new technologies that deliver compelling experiences on the Web. You might know Yoelle as the former engineering director at the Google [...]

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We’re rolling out some updates to our crawling, indexing, and ranking algorithms over the next few days. During this process, you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index. To share your thoughts or check in with other Yahoo! Search users, please visit the Site Explorer Suggestion Board. Dan Rampton Yahoo! Search

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Over the next few weeks, Yahoo! Search will be at Search Engine Strategies (SES) in Toronto and the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, CA. Come by and hear more about what we have up our sleeves. SES Toronto Monday, June 8 2:30pm-3:45pm Panel: Universal and Blended Search: Comprehensive Visibility Challenges Nick Cox, Senior Product Manager, Yahoo! Search Semantic Technology [...]

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Today we are announcing our support of Common Tag, a new semantic tagging format for Web pages. Developed jointly by a group of Web companies including Zemanta, Metaweb, and Yahoo!, the Common Tag format adds semantic meaning to tags, making Web content more discoverable and enabling the community to create more useful applications for aggregating, [...]

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Starting today you will see some subtle changes we?ve made in Sitemaps, partnering with Microsoft and Google. First, we have updated the xsd files with the XML schemas for Sitemap or Siteindex files. The updated xsd files allow better extensibility of the Sitemaps protocol. All your existing Sitemaps will continue to validate so you don?t need [...]

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Today, we are announcing two updates that make it easier for site owners and developers to share and use structured data within Yahoo! Search:  new enhanced results and the support of Google Base formatting for structured data feeds. Let’s take a look at these two updates. New Enhanced Results - Products, Events, News and More Back in [...]

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The new Yahoo! Toolbar, already available on Internet Explorer, is now available on Firefox (beta) to make it easier for you to keep on top of your online world. You can get helpful suggestions in the search box in the Yahoo! Toolbar and jump right to search results on sites like Flickr, Wikipedia, and more. [...]

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