Yahoo! Research Labs

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday January 20, 2004 @03:04AM from the i'm-available-to-research-mp3-and-pr0n dept.

glinden writes "Yahoo! issued a press release today announcing their creation of Yahoo! Research Labs. Although there's not much there yet, it's clearly targeting Google and Google Labs. The battle between MSN, Yahoo, and Google in the "Year of Search" is heating up. And it's still only January."

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Uhhh... by grub · 2004-01-20 03:06 · Score: 5, Funny

"Yahoo Labs"... there's got to be a Farside cartoon in there somewhere.

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1. Re:Uhhh... by The+Unabageler · 2004-01-20 03:12 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I'm thinking a yodeler running a meth lab from the alps, popping ricolas all day long.
  
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Yaaaa-hoooo! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-20 03:07 · Score: 4, Funny

I think Google have the advantage of the better name. With 'Yahoo Research Labs', I have this image of a load of cowboys wearing white research coats.
Silly! People! by CaptainAlbert · 2004-01-20 03:09 · Score: 5, Funny

I! refuse! to! take! them! seriously! until! they! obey! the! same! punctuation! rules! as! everyone! else!

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1. Re:Silly! People! by CGP314 · 2004-01-20 03:13 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  wHat aBout eBay and aPple?
  
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heating up? by CheeseTroll · 2004-01-20 03:11 · Score: 5, Funny

The battle ... is heating up. And it's still only January.
Yup, it's January - thank God *something* is finally heating up!

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disruption indeed by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-20 03:12 · Score: 2, Funny

Anyone else think the disruption is a bit out of place in their motto?

All of the "success stories" they list on the site are related to target web advertising, so yes, "disruption" is indeed related to what they do.
Re:Yahoo is Dean? by CGP314 · 2004-01-20 03:20 · Score: 4, Funny

I know that my father for one prefers yahoo!. When I try and make him use google by setting it as the homepage, he complains that it takes forever to load.

``Dad, it's done loading.''

``Well, where is everything.''

``That is everything.''

``Change it back''

::sigh::

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Bad signs by HappyCitizen · 2004-01-20 03:24 · Score: 4, Funny

I was on the yahoo labs page, went to a certian project and got:

Error 404: File Not Found
The page '/error.html' could not be found. Please check that you did not mistype the URL. If you followed a link to this page, we apologize for the error.

Its a bad sign when you cannot find the error page

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Re:Using heuristics in searches by pubjames · 2004-01-20 03:31 · Score: 4, Funny

Sometime in the near future:

Brilliant (but evil) scientist: Ah! My diabolic new creation awakens! The world will never be the same again! Mmmmwwwhahahahaha!!!

[Speaking to machine] So, my heuristic-driven search engine machine, what universal truths have you discovered? Have you discovered the meaning of life?

Machine: [Metallic voice] I have discovered that George Bush is a miserable failure.

Brilliant (but evil) scientist: I knew that already! What else have you discovered?

Machine: Your penis is too small...

Brilliant (but evil) scientist: D'oh! [Slaps forhead]

Machine: I have also discovered Jar Jar binks sucks bigtime.

Brilliant (but evil) scientist: But what of the meaning of life?? You've discovered that haven't you?

Machine: Britney is hot.

etc. etc.

[etc.]
VeriSign by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-20 04:18 · Score: 1, Funny

I am waiting for VeriSign to start their own search engine. This way everything will lead back to them.