Those of you who have read my blog for a while know that nine months ago when Yahoo tested the waters with this idea by introducing 5 search terms (and only 4 images of each) from Flickr into Yahoo Search.
And so today marks the first time that when
This move by Yahoo is just the beginning though. In Flickr Yahoo has the best image search technology on the internet right now. And so they'd be crazy not to leverage this advantage as much as possible into Yahoo's search which is still the second player compared to market leader Google.
Remember folks, it was the search team that bought Flickr at Yahoo, not the photos division that was rumored to have passed on Flickr on the first go around -- much to rumored inside political friction. Ironically now it's Yahoo photos that is being consumed by Flickr in the end.
This move on Yahoo's part though is a terribly smart one. While image search
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