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Tag: Yahoo![1]
After Jerry Yang, Yahoo may need to rethink its strategy. A new engine can turn a difficult search into a communal quest. Cloud Computing's Perfect Storm? An Intel, Yahoo, and HP initiative will use large-scale research projects to test a new Internet-based computing infrastructure. Information from millions of Web pages that use the animation software is now available to search engines. Search Engines' Chinese Self-Censorship U.S.-based search engines are choosing what they censor in China and could be blocking more than they have to. A New Divide in Social Networks MySpace and Yahoo support Google's OpenSocial standard; Facebook does not. If Microsoft purchases Yahoo, the popular Internet property would contribute a lot more than ad revenue. A new website will offer personalized search results based on the user's social network. Yahoo's Plan for a Smarter In-Box Its e-mail program will trade data with social-networking sites. Xobni makes it easier to find relevant information buried in your inbox. Building a Better Search Engine A new natural-language system is based on 30 years of research at PARC. Speech-recognition software could improve video search. A new wireless service will provide its subscribers with e-mail at no cost for even the most basic mobile devices. Yahoo Pipes lets people make highly customized feeds that combine information from multiple sources and weed out the junk. New Search Tool Uses Human Guides At search engine ChaCha, live humans guide visitors to the information they need. But will users slow down enough for real conversations? [1]
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