Facebook search monkey api added to yahoo permanently

It was quite a surprise for me to see the facebook search monkey application being directly added to Yahoo search.So now you don't have to login to Yahoo account and not required to have a search monkey API added to your Account.This directly shows how Yahoo is trying to bring in more ideas into a search engine , eventually bringing a distinction from its competitor Google.The best example here will be searching my name in Yahoo .

The change here is now you can add or poke or send me a message or even view my friends directly from the search engine and not login in facebook and search for a particular name.But of course you should be popular enough like me to get indexed in all search engine when searching a name LOL :).

This trend is really going to bring in more innovative developers to develop cool ideas into a search monkey applications.Though yahoo should see the advantage of making an application merged to their search engine and I feel the advantages / criteria will be

• Reach 
• Number of users using the application 
• Giving more easy shortcuts for the users 

I remember me writing about the Yahoo search Monkey project in June 2008 .