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• Yahoo Search Adds Travel Shortcuts

  Published: July 26, 2007, 6:06 pm

  Tags: Yahoo Shortcuts

  The Yahoo Search Blog announced that they have added new Yahoo Travel shortcuts. Basically, if you search on a travel destination, such as Jerusalem, up comes a shortcut box, with travel related information. It looks like this: Click to continue reading...

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• Yahoo Search Adds Baseball Shortcut

  Published: August 9, 2007, 2:10 pm

  Tags: Yahoo Shortcuts

  Yahoo Search Blog announced a new baseball search shortcut. For example, a search on Prince Fielder, of the Milwaukee Brewers, shows up a shortcut with a picture, his number, team, real statistics for the year and fantasy league statistics, plus links to news, game log, scores, schedules and more photos and stats. Here is a picture: Click

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• Drop-Down Maps & Other Enhanced Data Appearing In Yahoo Hotel Search Results

  Published: August 13, 2007, 9:40 am

  Tags: Yahoo Shortcuts

  building out much richer Shortcuts, rolling out new ones almost daily. Here are recent additions, sports and music, for example. Yahoo has also done this for some time with restaurant reviews (e.g., "Sushi, San Francisco") and more recently travel (e.g., "London"). Locallytype noticed that some hotel searches are now starting to show

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• Yahoo Search Adds Health, Electronics & NFL Shortcuts

  Published: August 23, 2007, 1:00 am

  Tags: Yahoo Shortcuts

  Yahoo Search will be launching new Search Shortcut for health, consumer electronics and NFL related queries. Click to continue reading...

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• Yahoo's Paid Shortcuts Now Labeled As Sponsored

  Published: October 5, 2007, 2:20 pm

  Tags: Yahoo Shortcuts

  in July, our Yahoo Shortcuts For Sale? article covered how Yahoo was selling some of its Yahoo Shortcuts units without -- to us -- enough disclosure. Looks like Yahoo's seen the light and now is using a "Yahoo Sponsored Shortcuts" label on these. Scott Hendison spotted the change here. Thanks, Yahoo. Here's the before:

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• Yahoo Adds Integrated Shortcuts For WordPress Blogs

  Published: December 13, 2007, 1:28 pm

  Tags: Yahoo Shortcuts

  Yahoo Search Blog announced a new WordPress plugin that automatically creates Yahoo Shortcuts for the words you write in a blog post. If you mention a stock ticker, that word on your blog will typically contain a mouse-over effect that will display a Yahoo Finance chart. Or if you have an address, they might show you a Yahoo Map. Yahoo

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• Yahoo Shortcuts Causes Associated Press Article To Show Inappropriate Content

  Published: August 4, 2008, 9:44 am

  Tags: Yahoo Shortcuts

  Press reports that the Yahoo Shortcuts feature aided in placing inappropriate content on AP's content. Yahoo Shortcuts is a feature that allows publishers enhance their content by adding Yahoo content around the words in the articles or blog posts. In this case, there was an AP story on the Eliot Spitzer scandal. Yahoo automatically

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• Yahoo Search Launches Olympics Shortcuts

  Published: August 5, 2008, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Yahoo Shortcuts

  Yahoo Search Blog announced that they have launched their 2008 Summer Olympics Yahoo Search Shortcuts. Yahoo Search Shortcuts allow you to search for specific phrases and Yahoo will return an enhanced search listing with premium information. For example, a search for Olympics medal count returns the current standings, by medals, of the

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