• DocumentCode
    861263
  • Title

    Yahooligan: Yahoo primes its research pump

  • Author

    Cherry, S.

  • Volume
    43
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    3/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    61
  • Lastpage
    62
  • Abstract
    Yahoo Inc., recently established Yahoo Research to improve its performance as far as innovation is concerned. In an interview with Yahoo Research head, Prabhakar Raghavan, he said that the group is focusing on five key research areas, namely search and text mining, data mining and machine learning, computer-human interaction, large-scale computing, and intersection of microeconomics and computer science, especially auction theory. Raghavan also explains how Yahoo Research compares with other similar corporate research groups.
  • Keywords
    Internet; online front-ends; search engines; Yahoo Research; auction theory; computer science; computer-human interaction; data mining; large-scale computing; machine learning; microeconomics; searching; text mining; Assembly; Authorization; Circuits; Power engineering and energy; Steady-state; Temperature; Thermal engineering; Visual BASIC; Web sites; Wiring;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Spectrum, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9235
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSPEC.2006.1604844
  • Filename
    1604844