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Figure out how the monkey ticks and win $10,000

by David Peterson

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I have previously blogged about the new Yahoo! search platform called SearchMonkey. It is a major step in the right direction. It brings a whole heap of control back into the developers lap by allowing you to represent your search results that way you want. Good idea huh?

If that wasn’t enticing enough on its own Yahoo! has sweetened the deal by creating a developers challenge offering multiple prizes worth a bit of dough.

SearchMonkey logoThere are 4 prizes worth $2,500 each:

  • Best Enhanced Result
  • Best Infobar
  • Most Innovative Use of Structured Data
  • Best Data Service

and one grand prize for best overall worth $10,000.

So go on, I know you want to. Eat some bananas (you’ll need the energy) and enter the challenge.

Oh, by the way. To help you (and myself) along on this, I will be posting a three (maybe four) part series walking through step-by-step how to develop for the next generation Web. Stay tuned…

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This entry was posted on Friday, May 23rd, 2008 at 5:20 pm, contains 149 words, 2 images, and is filed under Web Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. The views and opinions in this blog post are those of its author.

This post has 2 responses so far

  1. cranial-bore Says:
    May 24th, 2008 at 8:01 pm

    Geez, I’m still trying to learn everything about the current generation web and they release a new one.

     
  2. david.seth.p Says:
    May 24th, 2008 at 9:32 pm

    cranial-bore: hahaha, thanks. Unfortunately I feel the same most of the time.

     

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David Peterson has been a web developer since the early years - 1995. He works in the steamy tropics and is trying to kick start the Semantic Web down under. Not only that, but he is an Advisory Committee representative to the W3C, wow. His wonderful family, making lovely photographs and searching for the perfect espresso keeps him happy.

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