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Yahoo! Search is making several changes to provide a more functional, useful and visually appealing experience to is users.  As of July 31, they’ve introduced more structured data into their results from LinkedIn, Yahoo! Local and Yelp with the use of SearchMonkey apps.  With the automatic inclusion from these site, users no longer need to go into the search gallery and add them manually.

In May of 2008, Yahoo! announced SearchMonkey, a new developer platform, to open up their search to website owners and all third-party developers.  This platform uses data web standards and structured data and is a key part of their attempt to embrace the semantic web and open standard.

Below is a screenshot of my LinkedIn profile as seen in the search results for “bill gaffney.”

Yahoo! users who would like more refined results can also add additional apps into the results page from the Yahoo Search Gallery.

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