May 2009
Yahoo! Placemakerâ„¢ Beta - YDN
by Xavier Lacot & 1 otherProvided with free-form text, the service identifies places mentioned in text, disambiguates those places, and returns unique identifiers (WOEIDs) for each, as well as information about how many times the place was found in the text, and where in the text it was found. Gorgeous!
May 2008
SearchMonkey - YDN
by Xavier Lacot & 2 othersUsing SearchMonkey, developers and site owners can use structured data to make Yahoo! Search results more useful and visually appealing, and drive more relevant traffic to their sites.
Yay ! Semantic Web appearing ?
March 2008
The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem
by Xavier Lacot & 2 othersYahoo opens to the semantic web.
A few weeks ago, we began talking about the new Yahoo! Search open platform. Today, we're releasing more details about two important components of the initiative -- the developer platform as well as our support of a number of semantic web standards.
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