The Yahoo SearchMonkey Is Just About To Jump

Yahoo rolled out yesterday their new SearchMonkey Developer Tool. Although the product is still in limited preview, it is really great to see Yahoo continue to innovate on the web.

SearchMonkey was discussed earlier yesterday over 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. What grabbed my attention was the bullet points that Yahoo mentioned:

- 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