Yahoo search is improving
Earlier I wrote about Sometimes yahoo is better is better than google in providing search results when I was searching for Installing latex on hostmonster. And now with its open search platform SearchMonkey its trying to close in to Google. SearchMonkey allows you to create data services to built search apps that can enhance your search results.
Yahoo search gallery provides you many existing search enhancements that you can add after logging to yahoo. [Via labnol.org].Try various enhancement like LinkedIn Profile, IMDB results, StumbleUpon Reviews and other popular ones.
And you can also create your own search enhancement using step by step method using Presentation application (SearchMonkey Guide).
SearchMonkey API unables you to modify how particular links appears in search results. You can add images, related links and other html formatting but it does not unable you change position of a page in search result. I was unable to find feature which will enable us to filter sites which requires you to login or sites like ebay and amazon which may not be relevant to us by making their appearance farther in search results.
But still these enhancements provides you little summary of search results which is very useful like in case of movie reviews, people profile via linkedIn, stock information etc thus sometimes making opening the actual webpage unnecessary.
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hmmm… let me try this tips.
hmm…never really bothered going there after the advent of google…
will try next time im stuck!