Yahoo SearchMonkey Adds Facebook Profile Actions Into Search Results

February 26th, 2009 by Nick Gonzalez

Yahoo’s made search more social, adding Facebook profiles to their SearchMonkey search API.

From TechCrunch:

Yahoo just embedded some Facebook functionality directly into its search results via SearchMonkey. When you search for a person on Yahoo, if they have a public Facebook profile, a link to that profile will appear in results, along with a photo and several actions you can take. these include adding them as a friend, “poking” them, sending them a message, and viewing their friends.

You can see how it looks like in the image above, which shows results for Yahoo marketing VP Raj Gossain. The blue links under his name are the actions you can take. These are similar to the deep links SearchMonkey added to Yahoo Search for Wikipedia results.

via Yahoo SearchMonkey Adds Facebook Profile Actions Into Search Results.

Tags: facebook, yahoo

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