Flickr Photos Integrated Into Yahoo Images

Yahoo has integrated Flickr, the photo sharing site Yahoo bought two years ago, into its image search engine. As you can see in the screenshot of this search, Flickr photos appear in results where relevant (like this one), with links not only to see the photo on Flickr, but a link to the Flickr user’s main photo page.
The integration gives Flickr a live feed into Yahoo Images, with photos from Flickr appearing almost immediately in the search engine. In a perfect world, Yahoo would make efforts to integrate all photo sites in this manner, but who really believes they’ll do that?
Thomas Hawk seems pretty pumped, having hotly anticipated when Yahoo would take advantage of its photo community and photo tagging to make for better image search.
There is so much important work to do in the months ahead with image search, but the best image search going forward will […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg