Earlier this year the Sunnyvale Company launched Search Monkey an open platform that enables web developers to enhance the Yahoo! Search experience for end-users by creating applications that use structured data to change the visual appearance of search results and modify them to be more relevant or attract more traffic to their own services.
Users could, until now, access the Search Gallery and enable the third-party applications they wanted, but the company decided to integrate the Yelp, Linked In and their own Yahoo! Local Search Monkey applications for all users. These were some of the first-ever Search Monkey apps and were chosen due to their good user metrics.
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, should be happy because his vision for a Semantic Web is becoming a reality, as developers will now have to take semantic web markup such as RDF or Microformats more seriously in order to meet Yahoo's requirements of access to their site's structured data.
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, should be happy because his vision for a Semantic Web is becoming a reality, as developers will now have to take semantic web markup such as RDF or Microformats more seriously in order to meet Yahoo's requirements of access to their site's structured data.
Yahoo! is not the only one pushing for a semantic web, Google already indexing semantic markup too, but it certainly looks like it took the lead in this race.
