100 Invites to Yahoo SearchMonkey Developer Preview

Want to be one of the first to customize your site’s search results using Yahoo SearchMonkey? Sign up for the developer preview here and tell them TechCrunch sent ya.

The first 100 people to mention TechCrunch in their application will obtain access to the service. They will also get tickets to the SearchMonkey launch party on May 15th in Sunnyvale.

SearchMonkey allows web publishers to create applications for Yahoo Search that customize the way their results are displayed. The semantic tool can be used to replace traditional result descriptions with relevant links, structured information, and even images. See our detailed review of the service.

The Yelp example below shows how it could be used by that website to surface better information about local joints: