Yahoo!! has announced the winners of the SearchMonkey Developer Challenge.
Judges were: Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, Rasmus Lerdorf of Yahoo!, John Musser of ProgrammableWeb, and Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineLand.
Here are the selected Five winners of The SearchMonkey Developer Challenge:
- Innovative Structured Data - The StumbleUpon team won this category for an Infobar they built that draws in ratings and tags as well as links to other users who like the page.
- Best Infobar - The team from BooRah, a restaurant review site, took home the prize for an app that deep links and reviews to local restaurants, helping to get users to the dinner table faster than ever.
- Best Enhanced Result - Greg Schechter, a computer scientist from Deerfield, Illinois, built an Enhanced Result that spices up search results for Xbox.com with photos, prices and release dates for Xbox games.
- Best Data Service - David Hinckley, who owns a genealogy web hosting site, wrote a data service that allows other SearchMonkey developers to showcase rich results from his site in their own apps.
- Grand Prize - Marco Vitanza won $10,000 for his Blogspot Infobar, which displays links to recent posts for all Blogspot search results.
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