1149611 - [Research] Learn how to customize Yahoo search results

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(support.mozilla.org :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Michael Cooper [:mythmon]]

This covers learning how to

* remove extraneous links
* add search summaries
* add extra links
* any other customization we can add

Comment 1

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

Moving to next sprint

Comment 2

[Mark Schmidt :marksc]

Coincidentally, this is one of my wishlist items this quarter. I'd love to collaborate on this.

Comment 3

[Michael Cooper [:mythmon]]

I registered our site with Bing (which powers Yahoo search results). I think this will let us customized our search results more.

PR for that is here: https://github.com/mozilla/kitsune/pull/2484

Comment 4

[Mark Schmidt :marksc]

That's a good start.

fxgrowth reported huge Q1 success in growing MDN via search partnerships with Yahoo, specifically. They were able to get searches for generic programming terms (like "CSS") to return a rich first result that pointed to pages on MDN. Doing something like this is probably beyond the scope of this bug. But it's something to keep in mind.

It might be worth talking to somebody who worked on that project for pointers. Here's the bug for it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1141134

Comment 5

[Michael Cooper [:mythmon]]

The Bing registration seems like a dead-end. At least, nothing in the UI makes me think of our goal here.

Mark, do you know anything about the UI that sometimes appears alongside SUMO search results, as described in bug 1119399? I think that is the only thing we really have any control over.

Comment 6

[Michael Cooper [:mythmon]]

I don't think this is possible, and either way I don't think it is something we are going to do.