PETA might not be too happy with Yahoo for the company’s rollout today of a limited preview of the SearchMonkey Developer Tool, but hey, we don’t mind. It’s for a good cause. Namely, to help coders “build data services that can be used to present richer, more useful search results.
First discussed earlier today at the Web 2.0 Expo, the partial release of SearchMonkey is one item that has certainly piqued the interest of a number of third parties. Given Yahoo’s promotional bullet points on the project, its understandable why they’d want to kick the tires and go to town with the tool provided:
- Site owners can build enhanced search results that will provide searchers with a more useful experience by including links, images and name-value pairs in the search results for their pages (likely resulting in an increase in traffic quantity and quality)
- Developers can build SearchMonkey apps that enhance search results, access Yahoo! Search's user base and help shape the next generation of search
- Users can customize their search experience with apps built by or for their favorite sites