New Yahoo Open Search Platform Announced Publicly Today!
For the first time in public, Tim and I heard the announcement today from Amit Kumar, director of product management at Yahoo search. I shot the whole announcement in video and will post this later. But for now here is the short list of this huge announcement and the improvements:
- Listings will be vastly enhanced, site owners will have much more control with a new user gallery, buttons, functionality, etc.
- You can provide structural data such as user reviews and ratings, "buy this", address, prices of product, send links to a friend, to a phone, categorize listings with "smart answers" to increase relevance.
- Add video, company logo, images, music and more.
- "favicon" with one simple uninterrupted click
- Listings can function as a "mini site" for search engine results in organic listings, very powerful
If you look at the picture I took today, you can see what I mean from the bullet points. More to come later!!
Ty
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Comments
Corey,
Good question. There were several “We are just crawling” type comments from Amit today, but what he did tell us was that this will roll out in the next few weeks, to months. Yes, this is what he intimated, that this new “open” search is organic listings. It will roll out initially as a trial run for those who sign up, and information will be submitted through API or feeds eventually. He did not mention YSE, so I guess we’ll stay tuned! I will post more about this topic soon, and his video.
I’m not sure I understand this. Is it allowing us to do these things within the organic listings? How do we get in? Through the Yahoo Site Explorer?