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Flickr Thumbnails now Showing in Yahoo! Web Search Results

Interesting developments at Flickr and Yahoo! web search. Based on Flickr Interestingness data that the service has been collecting, Yahoo! Web Search is now showing Flickr thumbnails of the most popular photos of popular landmarks when these landmarks are searched on by users. Here are some examples:

  1. Machu Pichu
  2. Eifel Tower
  3. Great Wall of China
  4. Times Square
  5. Stonehenge

Yes, I had to include a thumbnail of Stonehenge in there. In any event, what’s cool about this is that the experience is driven by the voting on Flickr, rather than some other form of input. Look for more integration of Yahoo’s social search properties into its core web search in the future.

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Eric Enge

Eric Enge is part of the Digital Marketing practice at Perficient. He designs studies and produces industry-related research to help prove, debunk, or evolve assumptions about digital marketing practices and their value. Eric is a writer, blogger, researcher, teacher, and keynote speaker and panelist at major industry conferences. Partnering with several other experts, Eric served as the lead author of The Art of SEO.

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