Embedding flash, video, games, and documents directly in Yahoo! Search results is no longer ‘rocket science’ thingy. Complicate coding is thing of the past, with the introduction of new  SearchMonkey feature that allow you doing this with only few steps.

This is part of the Yahoo’s enhance results that can be turned off and on from the Yahoo web page itself.

<link rel=”image_src” href=”http://thumbnails.hulu.com/9/967/32912_145×80_generated__VfWxSNY3rESG1ntOzexNRQ.jpg” />
<link rel=”video_src” href=”http://www.hulu.com/embed/GREW9Qw0P7KjIyjJydQYRw” />
<meta name=”video_height” content=”296″/>
<meta name=”video_width” content=”512″/>
<meta name=”description” content=”Video description: Homer gets upset at a vending machine filled with apples.”/>
<meta name=”video_type” content=”application/x-shockwave-flash”/>

With only 2 lines code above, webmaster now can embed videos on the search result page easily. Thumbnail of the video will appear right beside the search result. Clicking on it will expand the video, and allow it to play directly from there.

How to implement this? As a guidelines, Yahoo provide set of codes and documents to embed file type flash video, games, and documents. To get started right away, head to this page.

Yahoo robots will be able to crawl any web page equipped with this markup, although they will still reviewing the content before it appear on the Yahoo search result page.