Yahoo announces Open Search

Yahoo are opening up their search platform and are about to enable 3rd parties to build and present the next generation of search results. They have imaginatively have called this feature Open Search. I prefer to call it ‘Social Search’.

In essence Open Search will allow web-site owners to provide additional information about their site directly to Yahoo! Search Results. You will be able to add ratings and reviews, images, deep links, and all kinds of other useful data.

This is what it will look like:

Open Search is possible via the use of microformats and this in itself make me very excited about this feature! Yahoo will be releasing the tools to implement ‘Open Search’ over the next couple of weeks.

Google’s Matt Cutts responds with a post about a new Google feature called ‘Subscribed Links‘. Subscribed Links will allow you to display links to your services for your customers, provide news and status information updated in near-real-time, answer questions, calculate useful quantities, and more all in Google’s search results.

These announcements are big news for the search industry. In effect they will change the landscape of search forever!

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