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June 8, 2005
Take the Y!Q Challenge: Show the world an innovative use of Y!Q Beta, our contextual search technology, on one of your web sites and you could win $5,000!
Y!Q, introduced earlier this year, is an innovation from Yahoo! Search that analyzes the content of a Web page and provides contextually relevant search results at the moment of search inspiration.
You can integrate Y!Q into your site and create a more engaging experience by providing your visitors with related search results directly on your website pages. Y!Q allows users to learn more about related topics without interruption and without having to leave your site.
Enter the Y!Q Challenge by June 16th at: http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yq/challenge
For further information about Y!Q, including instructions for implementation, please visit: http://yq.search.yahoo.com/publisher/embed.html
Toby Elliott
Yahoo! Webservices
Posted at June 8, 2005 12:00 PM
$5000 is nice. But use it more at Yahoo sites, and you'll get some serious input for the competition!
Posted by: David Petherick at June 8, 2005 4:07 PM
Check Yahoo! News. You'll see that we're using Y!Q quite a bit there.
Posted by: Jeremy Zawodny at June 8, 2005 5:21 PM
I created a zero configuration plugin for Y!Q WordPress which enables returning of contextual search results from the same blog. You can see it in action on http://blog.taragana.com/
However apparently contextual search engine doesn't work when limited to a domain!
For every instance I couldn't find a match in the same blog. However when I checked out the matches in the web, I found the list of terms it has extracted from context and is using to power the query. When I used them individually in a search box and restricted the results to my site, I could find several matches!
Posted by: Angsuman Chakraborty at June 9, 2005 9:23 PM
You probably wouldn't have to offer prize money if you let people use the web services in commercial applications. They'd make their own prizes. I don't understand why all the Yahoo Web Services have terms of use that require usage should be noncommercial. Until that is changed, it seems like you'll only attract hobbiests and you'll have to offer cash incentives. Its too bad - these are great web services - and I think you'd see a lot of innovation if you altered the terms. Imagine if Amazon had offered webservices only to noncommercial users - lots less innovation.
Posted by: Josh Petersen at June 22, 2005 4:01 PM
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