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Yahoo search showing flick photos

zmarties [PersonRank 10]

Thursday, August 24, 2006
17 years ago2,702 views

Yahoo have started to include flickr photo results in Yahoo searches.

The announcement on the Yahoo search blog
http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000350.html

suggests searching for "funny photos" via http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=funny+photos

to see an example of the results

zmarties [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Oh, for the sake of a missing "r"...

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=flick+photos

just grabs its results from Yahoo image search, not from flickr, and politely asks

Did you mean: flickr photos?

Yes I did!

Sohil [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

This was bound to happen sooner or later.

gary price [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I guess it's query dependent.

A search for smiling photos
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=smiling+photos&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t500&x=wrt
tosses inline results from Yahoo Images.

Pictures happy people
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=pictures+happy+people&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t500&x=wrt
Again, inline Yahoo Images.

Also, as mentioned in the blog post, Funny Photos returns Flickr images
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=funny+photos

BUT funny images
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=funny+images&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&x=wrt

or

or terms inverted (photos funny)
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=+photos+funny&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&x=wrt

does not.

Timline: Inline Images on Web Results from Large Engines
+ Google, Feb 5, 2005
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050207-155007

+Yahoo, Feb 23, 2005
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050207-155007

+ Ask.com, April, 2003
http://www.pandia.com/sw-2003/weblog-2003-april.html

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