Yahoo Launches Open Search Platform

A few weeks ago, Yahoo announced the introduction of a new open search platform, known as SearchMonkey.  I came across this article a few weeks ago, but it seems fitting to bring it up after spending all of last week going over search tactics in class.  Of all the benefits of an open search platform allowing third party users to modify the search results, I was glad to read that users will definitely not be able to change the order of the search results.  As we learned in class, search engines such as google and yahoo determine the order of websites that show up based on how many users are going on these sites.  If users were able to change the order of websites in this open search format, I for one would question credibility.