Boost up your posts with Yahoo! Shortcuts

Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 10:58
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Find a quick answers to your queries with ‘Yahoo! Shortcuts’ – a very innovative and helpful service that has been launched by Yahoo! Recently. This new feature has an integrated WordPress plugin, which enables you to create Shortcuts on your blogs – indeed a great feature. The main purpose of this addition is to make your content much rich and enhance the quality by adding Flickr photos, descriptions and also information related to the term. Now let us look into the working technology, which includes Automatic Detection and Review Detected Shortcuts.

As the blog has been written, the Shortcuts search for Flickr photos, related information such as places, companies, people, products and a lot more. All you need to do is click on the ‘Review this post’ button to view the search list and the Shortcut search results. The terms for which the Shortcuts have found contents and results will then be underlined. Now your job is to select what you would like to keep and your select your choice of displaying the Shortcuts. If you want to keep the Shortcuts as has been appearing on the page, simply do nothing. Else, if you want to remove it by one or all at once, there are options to do so.

Now the selected Shortcuts can appear in any of the different forms – link or badge. It’s your turn to decide which form you want to display the Shortcuts and the entire matter is done so easily. Besides searching for related terms, the Shortcuts also helps you by searching the main or important terms of your post and offers you with a quick and easy to add Flickr images.

You have the every permission to resize and post the images wherever you like on your post. Through the Creative Commons License, the photos get attributed to their corresponding authors and the entire process is automatic. In short, you only have to decide where and how you want to display the badges or photos, and Yahoo! Shortcuts looks after the rest by finding and recommending related badges and photos.