Hi monkeys, I wrote up my experience working on Tweet, a Yahoo! SearchMonkey application to enhance Twitter user profiles. While the monkey is done, I can't...
Hi Bartt, Nice writeup. Interested in the idea of using Google App Engine to serve cached content for Search Monkey. Is it possible to build a general...
Hi guys, Checkout the Infobar for Y! Maps. http://gallery.search.yahoo.com/application?smid=YtT&get_src=1 If the app detects the microformat "hCard" and...
Hello! I'd also like to share the apps we have developed. "ShoppingNotes Enhanced Result" shows product images and prices for product URLs coming from the over...
Please be aware that these changes have already been made, including the typeof attribute. Check your app if it uses the 'com.yahoo.uf.hcard' adjunct and you...
Great job, Meng-You! That's some really impressive coverage over those shopping sites. We would love to get the custom data services speeded up, so that you...
Evan, Thanks! We enjoy and look forward to working more on SearchMonkey apps. Meng ... those shopping sites. ... you can build more ... something our dev ... ...
Just speaking personally, I think getting a great app working beats being politically correct every single time. ;) It's a nice technical write-up, Bart. I'll...
Hi Meng, This app is definitely a neat one, but because you have it as a result app, and the API causes it to be an infobar, I'd suggest actually making an...
Ali, I think that Meng chose Enhanced presentation over Infobar because it has the potential to turn Y! Search into comparison shopping. Right now you'll have...
Hi, does anyone know what the outcome of the SearchMonkey Challenge is? The challenge closed Jun 14 and as I recall the results were expected to be announced...
You might want to try making a Yahoo! Pipe to do the query rewriting for you. Just give the pipe the data you need as input and then write out the long URL...
Ali and Bart, Thanks for your comments! Yes, we do have an InfoBar app http://gallery.search.yahoo.com/application?smid=fCD.s, which basically the same things....
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In case folks missed it, the YSearch Blog announced the SearchMonkey Challenge Winners here: http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000601.html Congratulations to...
SearchMonkey does not retrieve a vCard photo from the following html from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_conquerer: <table class="infobox vcard" ... ...
The documentation for SearchMonkey states that vcard bday is supported. When I use Data::get('com.yahoo.uf.hcard/rel:Card/vcard:bday'), nothing is retrieved. ...
... Unfortunately, a simple <span class="bday"> by itself is not valid microformat data. If you run that page through the microformat + RDF validator, ...
Hi all, Just wanted to alert the community that we are testing a new template design for Enhanced Result applications. This new template contains two key...
Hi! I have custom web service created for enhanced results and it works fine. But I want to have rss feed (or another way to have the data in Yahoo index) for...
Hi Nike! Answers interspersed. ... 110k items is fine. That said, unless you have a compelling reason to keep this data private, we do encourage developers to...
I am working on a MyBlogLog searchmonkey enhancement. Using MyBlogLog API we could complete the enhancement, but due to remote API call, enhancement is having...
... If there is some subset or aspect of a microformat that SearchMonkey does not understand, there is no way to get at that data through SearchMonkey....
Just to update this thread: in an upcoming push, we are lifting this restriction. Thank you Peter for providing us with this feedback! Evan Goer Yahoo!...
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