Yahoo! SearchMonkey
Type of site | semantic search |
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Available in | English |
Owner | Yahoo! |
Commercial | yes |
Registration | no |
Launched | May 2008 |
Current status | Offline |
Yahoo! SearchMonkey (often misspelled Search Monkey) was a
Yahoo! SearchMonkey was selected as one of the top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2008.[1]
Default apps
SearchMonkey had many default "apps" enabled; some were
Examples
- Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog on Amazon
- Inline Rick Rolls
- Thai food on yelp
- SearchMonkey on wikipedia
- Person search
Creating apps
Apps were made through the SearchMonkey Developer Tool. Two types of apps were possible, ones that overwrote the result (Result Apps) and others that displayed below a result (Infobars). App creation was split into two parts, data and presentation.
Data
The data for an app could be either
Any data placed on a webpage in these formats would be picked up by Yahoo!'s crawlers and made available to app writers. This data was also available through Yahoo! BOSS (YQL wrapped query or documentation).
One could use the Structured Data Display app to see all the structured data with search results.
Presentation
The data was transformed into the display template using PHP hosted on Yahoo! servers. It was a simplified stripped down version of the language.
End of Life
In 2010, Yahoo shutdown SearchMonkey in favor of Microsoft's Bing search engine.[2]
References
- ^ ""Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2008", ReadWriteWeb award". Retrieved 30 March 2009.
- ^ ""Search Monkey falls victim to Yahoo-Microsoft search deal", ComputerWorld award". 17 August 2010. Retrieved 10 February 2016.