Yahoo! Expandable Algo Results with Maps photos and Local Content
Posted on August 13, 2007
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Brand new integration of expandable enhanced data to certain web results like Photos, Reviews & Map from Yahoo! into the Yahoo! websearch.

open showing ratings, prices, maps and images for the hotel
Century Plaza Hotel
Hotel Cipriani

closed just a little button to unfold the enhanced listing
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Maps & Other Enhanced Data Appearing In Yahoo Search Results…
Yahoo has been building out much richer Shortcuts, rolling out new ones almost daily. Here are recent additions, sports and music, for example. Yahoo has also done this for some time with restaurant reviews (e.g., “Sushi, San Francisco”) and more rec…
[...] More Maps in Yahoo! Shortcuts Yahoo has been building out much richer Shortcuts, rolling out new ones almost daily. Here are recent additions, sports and music, for example. Yahoo has also done this for some time with restaurant reviews (e.g., “Sushi, San Francisco“) and more recently travel (e.g., “London“). Locallytype noticed that some hotel searches are now starting to show expandable, drop-down maps in search results. [...]
[...] Yahoo! Expandable Algo Results with Maps photos and Local Content — Brand new integration of expandable enhanced data to certain web results like Photos, Reviews & Map from Yahoo! into the Yahoo! websearch. — open showing ratings, prices, maps and images for the hotel — Century Plaza Hotel Source: Locally Type* Local Search & Maps Author: Frank Fuchs Link: http://www.locallytype.com/2007/08/13/yahoo… Techmeme permalink [...]
[...] A partir de ahora, los usuarios de Yahoo podrán buscar hoteles y restaurantes de una zona específica, pero también los museos, spas, bancos, hospitales o librerías…Estos resultados y recomendaciones en forma de links a los negocios locales son una mezcla de resultados pagados y otros aportados por terceros o tomados de la base de datos local de Yahoo. En Locally Type Frank fue el primero en darse cuenta de la existencia de estos nuevos mapas y en Search Engine Land se pueden ver más ejemplos. [...]
Yahoo! Adding More Maps in Shortcuts…
Frank at Locally Type was the first to note the change. When doing a local search thumbnail maps and sometimes reviews are returned for a more “universal” search. These “shortcuts” are meant to expose related information for a better search experie…