Yahoo Inc., has announced the formation of Yahoo Research Labs (http://labs.yahoo.com), a research organization focused on inventing new technologies and solutions relevant to strategic Yahoo businesses. Yahoo Research Labs engineers and scientists will work collaboratively with Yahoo business, product and technology teams to stimulate and synthesize new ideas that will serve Yahoo’s partners, advertisers and consumers. Core research areas include efficient search engine algorithms (as Yahoo switches from Google to Inktomi search) machine learning, and statistical data mining.
The organization will be led by Yahoo!’s Head and Principal Scientist Dr. Gary William Flake, former chief science officer of Overture and founder of Overture Research. Yahoo Labs will pursue a portfolio of topics that include pay for performance search, web search, vertical businesses and platform technologies. The organization will be led by Yahoo!’s Head and Principal Scientist Dr. Gary William Flake, who joined Yahoo with the acquisition of Overture in 2003.
“Our mission is to help Yahoo! pioneer the next wave of the online world through innovation, invention and scientific contribution,” said Dr. Flake. “By partnering with technology resources both inside and outside of Yahoo!, we aim to cultivate knowledge and expertise, solve fundamental technology problems and translate theory into practice to help maximize the social and economic potential of the Internet for consumers and businesses.”
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