InternetYahoo releases APIs for more detailed search results (InfoWorld)

InfoWorld - Yahoo is opening up its search platform to enable publishers to serve up more task-oriented, detailed search-page results as part of a larger strategy to encourage third-party development on its Internet platform.

San Francisco - Yahoo is opening up its search platform to enable publishers to serve up more task-oriented, detailed search-page results as part of a larger strategy to encourage third-party development on its Internet platform. Through a new publisher program called the Yahoo open-search platform, Yahoo is providing APIs to all of its publishers so that they can create feeds including structured data -- such as reviews, photos, and contact information -- that can be displayed on a search-results page, said Amit Kumar, a Yahoo director of product management. Using that information, results displayed through the feeds will provide search users more direct access to the results they're looking for, as well as provide a more customized look to the results that reflects the Web pages they link to, he said. For example, a user typing in a search for "blue shoes," might be delivered a link to an eBay auction for shoes that allows the user to "bid now" or an Amazon.com link to purchase shoes with an accompanying photo, Kumar said. The new program focuses only on organic search results and does not affect sponsored and paid-search results, nor does it affect results ranking, he added. Search results... [ Read more on www.yahoo.com ]

InternetApple's iTunes grows to No. 2 U.S. music retailer (Reuters)

Reuters - Apple Inc's iTunes digital media store edged out Best Buy Co and Target Corp to become the second-largest U.S. music retailer, behind Wal-Mart Stores, according to data released on Tuesday from tracking firm NPD Group.

InternetMundie: Google owes business to Microsoft (InfoWorld)

InfoWorld - Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie said Tuesday that competitor Google owes its business in part to Microsoft and that his company is not concerned about losing its position as an innovator in the technology market to the search and advertising leader.