The central advanced research organization of Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo! Research, is a leading global Internet brand. They strive for big inventions and for creating the next generation of businesses for Yahoo! One of its primary goals is to develop leading-edge algorithms and technology to empower the next generation of Internet search.
The latest news is that Yahoo! is opening a new research laboratory in Haifa, Israel. Haifa is the third largest city in the country.
The lab will focus over the research and development in the areas of Web search and information extraction. The sources say that the office will be led by Dr. Ronny Lempel, who is an information organization and retrieval expert. Of late, Dr. Lempel worked for the Information Retrieval Group at IBM's Haifa Research Lab.
The Yahoo! Research Israel Lab will focus on boiling down complex technology problems into simple solutions to simplify the Web search. As a demonstration of its commitment to next-generation search, Yahoo! recently opened Yahoo! Labs in Bangalore, India, and appointed eminent scientist Dr. Rajeev Rastogi to head the new India lab.
These expansion plans of Yahoo! may result in some of the major developments in the area of Web search as according to a Yahoo official “search is still in its infancy.”
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