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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. Uhhh... by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


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

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  2. Silly! People! by CaptainAlbert · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  3. 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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  4. 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.

  5. heating up? by CheeseTroll · · 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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  6. It won't be hard to beat Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The only thing Google has going for it is the page ranking mechanism. If you take the time to look through Google Labs, you will see that there is very little stuff there that is actually useful. Fun, yes. Very useful to a very small minority of people, sometimes. But very little Google does actually generates revenue whereas Yahoo! has a well-established online supra-portal that generates revenue through a wide range of method, from banner ads to pay services.

    Once Yahoo! starts producing useful products from their research in Yahoo! labs, they will show that not only is Google Labs a complete waste of time and money (Google's money that is) but it does not generate revenue to support its existence.