“LinkedIn Public Profile” now on display in the Yahoo! Search Gallery

Today, Yahoo! opened the doors to its Search Gallery, enabling its users to view and add applications built on the SearchMonkey platform.  Though the Gallery is still in beta, a handful of interesting and useful apps are already on display, such as the one labeled “LinkedIn Public Profile”, a light plug-in we created with a little help from our friends at Yahoo.

Starting today, visitors to the Gallery can add the LinkedIn Public Profile application to personalize their Yahoo! Search experience and render public profiles in a more useful and visually compelling format directly on the search results page.

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As my colleague, Jack Chou, noted in a previous post (LinkedIn and the Yahoo! Open Search effort), LinkedIn is committed to helping you promote and control your personal brand online.  Your customizable public profile settings put you in full control over what information from your LinkedIn profile is made accessible to search engines and applications such as this one.  Currently, your profile data will not be presented in this new and rich format, unless you have claimed a custom public profile URL.

Our participation in the Yahoo! SearchMonkey initiative is just one example of how LinkedIn supports open standards on the web and strives to help you enhance and expand your presence online to further your professional life.

Send your Kudos to Jay Kreps, Jack Chou, Steve Ganz, Elliot Shmukler, and of course, the Yahoo! Search team!