Well, as long as it isn't a flying monkey, ok.
Enter the Yahoo Open Strategy (YOS). ...
There’s a massive, latent social network within Yahoo, and we’re going to bring it to the surface. We’re making Yahoo more social, but we’re not building yet another social network. We already have an incredible social network… we just need to unlock it.
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A first taste of our strategy is SearchMonkey, which will let developers mash up helpful data with our search engine results. ... launch party May 15 [2008]
http://ycorpblog.com/2008/04/24/developer-welcome-mat/
(Exclamations removed because I refuse to put exclamations all over the place, including inside of acronyms.)
SearchMonkey is what I previously described as "semantically-enriched search results".
General story of Yahoo Open Strategy very widely reported, e.g. Globe - Associated Press - Yahoo plans social makeover. SearchMonkey bit via Search Engine Watch blog.
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