theTimKid » Facebook http://thetimkid.com/blog Random Stuff - Some Interesting, Some Strange, Some No Comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:26:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Yahoo Inserts Facebook Profiles Into Search Results http://thetimkid.com/blog/2009/02/26/yahoo-inserts-facebook-profiles-into-search-results/ http://thetimkid.com/blog/2009/02/26/yahoo-inserts-facebook-profiles-into-search-results/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:20:15 +0000 adi@web http://thetimkid.com/blog/?p=306 Google may be outperforming Yahoo Search in terms of market share, but with programs like Search Monkey and BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service), Yahoo is still trying to innovate in the search space. Today, Yahoo announced a new feature that integrates Yahoo Search with some of Facebook’s core functions. Whenever you see a Facebook profile in your search results, you can now directly add somebody as a friend, send messages, see their friends, or poke them.

The SearchMonkey app is actually turned on by default for all Yahoo Search users now (but you can opt out at any time).

facebook_search_monkey.pngAfter that, whenever a Facebook profile appears in your search results, it will include this person’s public profile picture, as well as an additional line with the basic Facebook commands (add friend, poke, send message, view friends). According to Yahoo, Facebook shared this structured data with the SearchMonkey app by adding semantic markup to its public profile pages.

Maybe more importantly, though, features like this show that there is still a lot of life left in Yahoo Search. As Marshall Kirkpatrick noted a few weeks ago, things may not be looking too rosy for Yahoo in business terms, but the company is at least trying out a lot of cool search-related technologies.




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Another reason why fake Facebook accounts are a better option; after all, if all your ‘friends’ know you as Smelly Sue, what does it matter if its your real name or not.  Render FB powerless over your content.

BullSh*t

Don’t recall a press release on this edit to their TOS. Anyone have knowledge of whether FB announced this before implementing?




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