Comments on: Flickr Photos Integrated into Yahoo Image Search

By: Nik

Nik — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:02:06 +0000

Question:

I’m wondering when (or if) these images are ever re-indexed? For example I have an image that used to be tagged with a particular term and is no longer. But when I search on images.yahoo.com those photographs still show up even though those tags are no longer there.

By: Nelma

Nelma — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:51:10 +0000

Time to delete all my tags.

By: Ken Savage

Ken Savage — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 03:57:39 +0000

I too thought this was also in the news but I see that it’s the image search Loren is talking about. Nice stuff. Time to load up my tags in Flickr.

By: Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:51:25 +0000

Oh, I see. Thanks!

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:48:16 +0000

Barry the WPN article shows a screenshot of the images in the web search results. I don’t see that they mention the image search results.

By: Loren Baker, Editor

Loren Baker, Editor — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:45:35 +0000

No Barry, this is quite different than serving thumbnails on specificly hand targeted shortcut terms.

The total image search integration and the use of live Flickr photostream feeds in the Y! index are the key differentiation points.

As is the ability to highlight specific Flickr users in the Y! Image results. So, instead of static search results, what we’re seeing is a much more interactive form of community driven Flickr images now used in Yahoo Image Search results.

Hopefully, this practice will transcend to the search shortcuts as well, but Yahoo has cut back on the usage of some shortcuts to concentrate on its verticals. Perhaps we’ll see something similar, but not identical to, Universal Search one day from Yahoo.

This just went live at about 10 pm EST last night.

By: Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:38:13 +0000

I believe this is fairly old news…

http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2007/05/11/integrating-flickr-into-yahoo-search

No?