Yahoo Search

Yahoo's done what Google should've done long ago, opened up its search to outside developers. Compare Yahoo's offering to Google's.

This is going to be big. Yahoo totally gets it.

Here's a prediction: Yahoo will announce a blogging tool (like MSN Spaces and Blogger) in the next 3 months. And I bet (hope!) they'll seamlessly integrate Yahoo Groups with their blogging tool to enable instant group blogs. Yahoo's great at integrating their web-properties and they can pull it together like no one else can.

Comments

nice stuff :) must be a dream come true to a web service developer

said anshul at 3:23 p.m. on 3rd March, 2005 ¶

Not exactly a dream come true. Those who really wanted the goods were scraping the html search result pages anyway.

But this nice api makes coding easier (trivial!), reduces bar of entry and should spark some innovation.

said deepak at 5:37 p.m. on 4th March, 2005 ¶