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Dear all:

Re: Yahoo Gives In to Microsoft, Gives Up on Search - BusinessWeek
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2009/tc20090728_826397.htm

Fyi - I think it will rather strengthen the impact of Yahoo SearchMonkey 
technology, because that is actually the strongest technical asset of 
Yahoo - if your read the
article carefully, you will see that what MS will provide is the 
matching of sponsored links to search results. And that is something
GoodRelations meta-data will make a lot more powerful. So I see no 
reason to assume a reduced importance of SearchMonkey. More likely it
will quickly increase the scope of SearchMonkey from Yahoo to Yahoo+Bing.

Also note that an even bigger business benefit for companies will be be 
high-quality traffic generated via GR-powered affiliate marketing etc.,
which does not require Yahoo crawling. Yahoo is important for 
encouraging the small businesses to create an initial data set.

A huge business potential will  be in complementing systems that use the 
respective data in more depth and breadth than Yahoo. It may be Bing, it 
may be a novel vendor ;-)
We will see...

Best
Martin Hepp

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Recipe for Yahoo SearcMonkey:
http://tr.im/rAbN

Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009: 
"Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology"
http://tinyurl.com/semtech-hepp

Overview article on Semantic Universe:
http://tinyurl.com/goodrelations-universe

Project page:
http://purl.org/goodrelations/

Resources for developers:
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations

Tutorial materials:
CEC'09 2009 Tutorial: The Web of Data for E-Commerce: A Hands-on Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo! SearchMonkey 
http://tr.im/grcec09

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