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Yahoo! Research Labs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Googlemail by savagedome · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Google kicks everybody else's a$$ at one thing: Search results. Now when everyone else is getting more serious about search, (Yahoo buying Overture, Microsoft announcing Search R&D), Google announces Google mail. I am not sure if this is the way to go.

    Lately, (and I'm sure lot of you have noticed) Google's search results have been a little more oriented towards commercial sites. Not good. They should apply the KISS principle.

    I love Google (like billion other people) and it will be sad if going public and eventually catering to stockholders starts a downward spiral.

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  2. Competition is good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just cause Google is currently the leader doesnt mean Yahoo doesnt deserve the chance to take the crown!

    Would you prefer technology stagnate?

    Good luck to the teams at both google and yahoo!

    I dont believe in brand loyalty. Cause no company has believed in customer loyalty.

  3. Google is innovative by shuz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yahoo has a long ways to go. Aquiring geocities was the last smart thing yahoo did. (that and beefing up my email quota for free) Google has made a lot of news lately about how they try to be non-intrusive as a search engine and try to make it quick, simple, and have relevent search results instead of 10 advertisements and then a real search result. Until yahoo can do something really gripping I'll keep using Google for search engine. If yahoo is smart they will keep focused on thier "community" appeal. They are friggen awsome and community even if that community is the redlight district for teens. With that... I miss the old Geocities. I also miss Altavista (powered by digital) in its prime. /rant off

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  4. Here's an innovative idea by greenhide · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Have more than one woman involved in the research lab for the company.

    Not to get into a whole discussion about gender here, but I'm guessing that having a larger percentage of women in the group might lead to research in different areas.

    I mean, women are probably a decent chunk of search engine users these days; it might be interesting to see if they have different interests or ideas on how they want to search.

    If their goal is to increase market share, then one step might be to make services that cater to a now generally marginalized but growing sector of net users -- women.

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