Are You A SearchMonkey?

Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Friday, 25 of April , 2008 at 11:59 am

Yahoo! has rolled out a limited beta of its new developer app called SearchMonkey. I like the general idea.

The tool will allow webmasters and other developers the ability to add enhancements to their search engine results at Yahoo! These enhancements could lead to an increase in traffic and if you’re like most webmasters, you probably could use that boost from Yahoo! SERPs.

The biggest problem I see in SearchMonkey is that searchers must opt in before they can see the enhancements. That doesn’t really help webmasters any. How many users will actually go through the trouble to opt in? My hope is that Yahoo! will release that restriction at some point in the future and simply deliver the enhancements to users without requiring them to opt in. That would help searchers and webmasters alike. Meanwhile, I encourage you to sign up for an account at SearchMonkey and play around then report the results back here. Do you like it? Is it helpful? Do you expect great results?

Category: SEO, Search Engines

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