Diran Afarian
Jan 7, 2008Â
IÂ heard from a well connected friend that Yahoo! will be opening its source code to developers, giving them a chance for collaborating with the search giant.
Can you imagine the possibilities? One that I can think about, if they open their search databases, is to know what people are searching for. For instance, if I am in the shoe business, and I knew people are searching for shoe laces, or velcro top, then I would make special pages that deal with those issues. If I was in the music business and I knew there was a lot of searches being conducted on Britney Spears, then I could add content on the site accordingly.
Now, when I help sites with SEO and SEM issues, I scour the news and video sites looking at the issues most discussed, and most commented on, then add content on sites that deal with those issues. I try to of course stay on the subject, because if the site is about shoes, and the content is talking about Britney Spears, unless Britney Spears bought some shoes and that’s what the article is talking about, then it is not going to get good placement on the Search Engines.
This has been in effect on the web since the beginning when people would put “S-E-X” in their meta tags, with the hopes of attracting users. Well, the ones that came were disappointed and never came back to the site etc.
Oh, No! I went off on a tangent. Sorry, I just love SEO and SEM issues so much that I go off on a tangent sometimes. Back to our topic.
I, for one, am very excited about the possibilities. Of course I am not going to discuss everything that is good about it, because even in Black Jack, one of the cards is still hidden. I have a few things that I would like to implement once this happens. And I have promissed myself that I will have it done quickly.
Ok, I guess I can share another one, what if Yahoo! opened it’s user pages and somehow was thinking of taking Rupert Murdock up on his offer of the MySpace for Yahoo! Stock trade? Would this be big? Wow! would it ever. This would send Google and Facebook in a frenzy. What could you do then?
More on this later. I can’t wait for the official announcement