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June 29, 2004
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Behind the Scenes at Yahoo Labs, Part 2 The head of Yahoo! Research Labs talks about the challenges of indexing various types of information, and Yahoo's efforts at realizing a current hot trend -- personalized search.   |
Search Engine Watch
July 7, 2004
Gary Price |
Behind the Scenes at Yahoo Labs, Part 3 The head of Yahoo Labs talks about the competition, the challenge of balancing searcher needs with webmaster desires, the future, and the next big thing in web search. |
InternetNews
January 20, 2004
Janis Mara |
Yahoo! Lab to Cook Up New Search Tech Yahoo!'s new research group will help the Internet giant fight for search superiority. |
Search Engine Watch
Kevin Newcomb |
Where's Search Heading? Ask Yahoo's Chief Scientist Yahoo is taking a task-based approach to its search strategy, improving results to focus on the user's task stage, according to Andrew Tomkins, chief scientist for search at Yahoo. |
Search Engine Watch
June 30, 2005
Chris Sherman |
What's Cooking in Search Engine Labs Want a peek behind the scenes at the research and development efforts going on at the major search engines? Here's where to find the freshest info. |
Fast Company
November 2008
Chuck Salter |
Microsoft's Leader in Web Apps: Meet Dr. Flakenstein Strange things are going on in the lab of Gary Flake. Can this Web geek make Microsoft come alive? |
Search Engine Watch
September 27, 2006
Shari Thurow |
Behind the Scenes in the Search Engine Labs Most of the major search engines have research units and live testing grounds for new products and features. What kinds of projects are they currently working on? |
InternetNews
August 2, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Dogpile: Search Engines Don't Have Much in Common Users of the meta-search service can now see results from MSN Search in addition to results from Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and MSN Search. As part of its announcement, Dogpile demonstrated the diversity of results across the engines. |
InternetNews
January 24, 2006
Susan Kuchinskas |
Yahoo's Spanish Connection Yahoo has announced it's hired top search expert Ricardo Baeza-Yates to head new labs in Spain and Chile. |
InternetNews
July 15, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Internet Media Meets Media Eggheads UC Berkeley and Yahoo team up on a research lab. Engineers at the lab will focus on search technology and social and mobile media, among other things. |
BusinessWeek
July 18, 2005
Ben Elgin |
Google's Leap May Slow Rivals' Growth MSN and Yahoo! face new challenges as their share of the search engine market falls, but they are offering new search features to remain competitive. |
Information Today
August 6, 2009
Avi Rappoport |
The Big Three of Web Search Becomes the Big Two For end-user searchers and intermediaries, this search engine merging is a loss: Consolidation means common queries are likely to have more helpful results, but the variety and diversity provide more results for unusual questions, the long tail of search. |
Search Engine Watch
July 21, 2004
Christine Churchill |
Meet The Crawlers Representatives of Yahoo, Google, Ask Jeeves and Looksmart offer an inside glimpse of recent developments at the major search engines. The general focus for the major search engines continues to be on the user experience. |
InternetNews
January 26, 2006
David Needle |
Microsoft Makes Big Internet Research Play Microsoft reported a major investment and research effort with the announcement of Live Labs, a partnership between its MSN online division and Microsoft Research. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2005
Patricia Panchak |
Editor's Page -- Playing The R&D Blame Game The Bush Administration's 2006 budget short-changes industrial research and development. Industry executives and shareholders have also contributed to a slowing of spending on basic research. |
Search Engine Watch
March 22, 2004
Greg Jarboe |
Yahoo News Upgrades To Take On Google News Yahoo released a new version of its news search engine late last week, a new move in what may be a modern-day version of the great newspaper wars. |
Search Engine Watch
April 28, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Exploring Search Engine Overlap A new comparison tool shows that the major search engines have surprisingly little overlap, even for popular search terms. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2004
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - The New Yahoo! Search With all the changes at various search engines, Yahoo! has now risen to the top as one of the major places to look beyond Google. |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo To Buy Inktomi If all goes as planned, Yahoo will become the proud owner of Inktomi by the end of March or earlier. The company announced its intention to buy Inktomi for $235 million on December 23. A look at how the deal may help Yahoo bring in more searchers, as well as search revenue. |
Search Engine Watch
February 2, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Milestones for January 2004 Open Directory Adds Previews Allowing Users To Visualize Links... Dogpile Toolbar Wins Award for Best Browser Toolbar Plug-In... Yahoo! Establishes Yahoo! Research Labs... etc. |
InternetNews
December 8, 2009 |
Bartz: Yahoo's Rivals Aren't Google and Microsoft Yahoo chief says company's biggest challenge is bringing offline ad dollars onto the Web. |
Information Today
July 21, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Yahoo! to Buy Overture for $1.6 Billion Yahoo!, one of the first subject directories on the Web and now a major search portal, has announced it will purchase the commercial search company, Overture Services, Inc., which specializes in Web advertising and operates the AltaVista.com and AlltheWeb.com sites. |
Search Engine Watch
January 3, 2007
Eric Enge |
Are Vertical Search Engines the Answer to Relevance? Even the most advanced general search algorithm can be scuttled by ambiguous searches, but vertical search engines are increasingly offering a solution to the problem. |
BusinessWeek
August 27, 2009
Adrian Slywotzky |
Where Have You Gone, Bell Labs? Here's how basic research and strong leadership can repair the broken U.S. business model. |
