Yahoo! Scratches the Surface of the Internet

Yahoo! Scratches the Surface of the Internet: "

Originally aired on KGO-TV (ABC) on August 11, 2010

By David Louie

Search engines like Google or Yahoo! know a lot about what you search for, but they also are learning a lot about you. Yahoo has several hundred research scientists on the prowl. ABC7 went to see what they are up to.

As good as search engines are, there is an important question that cannot be answered with a few keystrokes.

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Yahoo! Wants to Blind the Competition With Science

Yahoo! Wants to Blind the Competition With Science: "

Originally Published on Wired.com on August 17, 2010

By Ryan Singel

Imagine a world where your favorite webpage doesn’t even exist until you go there, and then it’s exactly what you hoped it would be, and it makes you viscerally happy. Prabhakar Raghavan is thinking about just that, and as the chief scientist for Yahoo! he’s actually in a position to make it possible.

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