Hang in there, you guys.

Best of luck for yahoo. I love SearchMonkey and BOSS concept!

That's all fine and dandy until YUI suddenly becomes MSUI.Net Live! Ultimate Edition.

In all seriousness, the rumblings I've heard from various Yahoos over Twitter, Facebook, and the Blogosphere make it sound like the morale at Yahoo is reaching all-time lows with this announcement. How long until people on the YUI team (the product I use most) get fed up and quit? What happens to the product then?

I understand that this specific announcement is about trading Yahoo's search operations in exchange for a short-term cash infusion, but how often does that actually pay off in the long run? Sure, it worked for Apple in 1997, but Carol Bartz is no Steve Jobs.

So yes, the announcement DOES affect other non-search products. Just not as immediately as it affects BOSS and SearchMonkey.

BOSS is an amazing idea - Great work Vik! - and I hope Microsoft keeps that project going. Acquiring Yahoo! Search traffic isn't enough to beat Google ...

Also, YQL has search functions for calling BOSS so there are dependency issues even for the "non-search" stuff.

@Ryan -- Thanks for your comments about YUI. As a member of the YUI team, I share your interest its future. As you consider what the future may hold, it's worth keeping in mind that YUI is integral to all of the core Yahoo! properties, from News and Finance to Sports and Flickr to Yahoo.com and Mail. YUI may very well be used in the products we build in front of our partner's search backend in the future, although I have know information today about those plans. In short, YUI isn't any less important to us at Yahoo today then it was yesterday. As we try to build better and better products for end users and advertisers, it gets more important to have a robust, reliable, extensible, well-documented frontend library that empowers developers to create great experiences in a cost-effective way. We're going to keep working on YUI to ensure that it's doing that -- for all of us who depend on it every day. -Eric Miraglia

About "You can build an application to run on My Yahoo!. And, coming soon, you'll be able to use YAP to build an application that could even run on our new homepage."

That's mean My Yahoo! apps are compatibles with your homepage platform ?

@Eric M -- I appreciate your follow-up (and was surprised to find myself quoted in today's Business Week article).

YUI is an excellent development tool. One of the reasons why I was drawn to it, is that it is (as far as I'm aware) one of the only JavaScript toolkits that has paid developers behind it. My comment about MSUI.Net Live! Ultimate Edition was, of course, more tongue-in-cheek than anything.

Fortunately, YUI has been open-sourced and has a very liberal license so even if the rumblings at Yahoo! get worse (and the YDN folks head for the door), we (the YUI community) are not entirely dependent on Yahoo! for the ongoing development of this tool. You guys do, however, provide the bulk of the work, so there is a certain amount of (reasonable) trepidation that comes with this announcement.

Besides that, I have my reservations about putting all of Yahoo!'s eggs in the search advertising market after spending the last 3 years watching trends in this industry, but that's another comment for another blog post.

@oliezekat - Yes, the new homepage applications will run the same platform (YAP) as the My Yahoo! application space. Technically, any "drop zone" that is added to one of the Yahoo! properties can run the same YAP applications that you would build anywhere else.

And what about the much appreciated Yahoo explorer search and API. A lot if not all SEO linkbuilding and monitoring tools depend on that one. Will Yahoo explorer and its api die like the Overture keyword tool 'vanish in the fog' a few years ago, without communication?

@Ryan, Jonathan, or any ohter Yahoo employee.

No comment on Yahoo site explorer?

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Fortunately, YUI has been open-sourced and has a very liberal license so even if the rumblings at Yahoo! get worse (and the YDN folks head for the door), we (the YUI community) are not entirely dependent on Yahoo! for the ongoing development of this tool. You guys do, however, provide the bulk of the work, so there is a certain amount of (reasonable) trepidation that comes with this announcement.

Real life observation tells us that, more often than not, those who work the hardest achieve the most.

So, any updates? What are Microsoft doing to BOSS? Is it continuing, is it being discontinued, is it morphing into Bing?