Nano2Sol by Marc Boucher

In his latest entry on the Yahoo Search Blog, Vish Makhijani, discusses “Yahoo! Search An Open Approach to Search“. This post builds on last weeks announcement of the largest Hadoop production application and I love it. It’s innovative, especially for content producers. They, we finally get a say in the output of Yahoo’s search results like never before. Regardless if you’re a content producer or searcher you can sign up for more information here.

“Because the platform is open it gives all Web site owners — big or small — an opportunity to present more useful information on the Yahoo! Search page as compared to what is presented on other search engines. Site owners will be able to provide all types of additional information about their site directly to Yahoo! Search. So instead of a simple title, abstract and URL, for the first time users will see rich results that incorporate the massive amount of data buried in websites — ratings and reviews, images, deep links, and all kinds of other useful data — directly on the Yahoo! Search results page.”

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