My Yahoo! Nous, Yahoo, faisons partie de la famille de marques Famille de marques Yahoo Les sites et applications que nous possédons et exploitons, y compris Yahoo et AOL, et nos services publicitaires numériques, Yahoo Advertising.Yahoo. Lorsque vous utilisez nos sites et nos applications, nous utilisons des Témoins Les témoins (y compris des technologies similaires telles que le stockage Web) permettent aux opérateurs de sites Web et d'applications de stocker et de lire des informations provenant de votre appareil.
Apprenez-en davantage en consultant notre politique relative aux témoins.témoins dans le but de : vous fournir nos sites et applications; authentifier les utilisateurs, appliquer des mesures de sécurité et prévenir les pourriels et les abus; et mesurer votre utilisation de nos sites et applications Si vous souhaitez personnaliser vos choix, cliquez sur 'Gérer les paramètres de confidentialité'. Yahoo Answers and wisdom of the crowd. Jeremy Zawodny has the post on the Yahoo Search blog announcing a new product, Yahoo Answers.
Jeremy describes it as "a place to tap the collective wisdom of the Internet for advice, recommendations, theories, jokes, ... whatever. " Both Gary Price and Michael Bazeley talk about the similarity of the new Yahoo Answers with existing forums and message boards. I think this comparison is pretty accurate. There are already moderated discussion forums where people can rate the quality of posts. Both Gary and Michael also contrast Yahoo's offering with Google Answers. Google Answers keeps quality high by charging a fee and restricting who can answer a question. Unless Yahoo Answers' reputation system includes something novel that does a better job of ferreting out experts, the site will have the same problem all user-moderated forums have. People don't know what they don't know.
There was a case in the news a couple years ago of a legal advice site that had user-moderated forums. Yahoo/Google Competitive Product Matrix. How Yahoo can beat Google. Google has pummeled Yahoo into near-obscurity: the early search leader – the Google of the 1990′s – Yahoo’s market cap is a fraction of GOOG’s while their search share is a distant second.
It is easy to forget that Yahoo is actually a large and highly profitable company by most standards – over $6 billion in sales and more than $700 million in profits in 2006. But when you’re competing against the baddest internet company around, good isn’t good enough. Which is why ex-CEO Terry Semel was shown the door and a new team, co-founder Jerry Yang and CFO Mary Decker, are now at bat. Sclerotic decision-making Analysts point to Yahoo’s inability to make fast decisions to acquire hot properties, like FaceBook and YouTube, as indicative of the company’s malaise. A compelling vision and crisp decisions would surely help. Yet for all their success, the Google’s top management is hardly more experienced than Yahoo’s new team. But Yahoo has a much bigger problem than corporate culture. The MyBlogLog Blog.
Yahoo Memo: The 'Peanut Butter Manifesto' Jeremy Zawodnys blog. February 25, 2010 I'm Blogging Elsewhere posted at 05:20 PM | link | bloglines | technorati I haven't written much here recently. And that's really due to a lot of reason, not the last of which is being busy and that we have a wonderful new kitten named Bear: The other issue is that I've becoming increasingly unhappy with my blogging tools, the custom hacks I've added over the years, and the required maintenance and upkeep. So I've decided to give WordPress a try. I may find myself posting stuff here from time to time. When I have time. Which means it may take a while. In the meantime, I have more efficient tools over there and am likely to publish more often. February 02, 2010 Zip Line and Rappelling Adventure in Puerto Vallarta posted at 09:36 PM | link | bloglines | technorati A few weeks ago, Kathleen and I went on our first cruise together. Our first day in port was in Puerto Vallarta.
The cruise across the bay gave us some view of very nice water-front houses. Ready to Go "How was it? " ZoneTag Photo. Search Engine Journal & Yahoo Up Close : S. Yahoo Up Close : Social Search Tim Mayer of Yahoo introduces this seminar on the Social Media direction of Yahoo and its core web search which is leaning in the socail direction. Tim reviews the International success of Answers and Yahoo’s plans of building upon that success. Timeline : Directory, PageRank and then Yahoo sees the next break through in tagging and utilizing community and its sense of authority as the new meta data search.
Yahoo’s search vision (FUSE) is and has always been human powered – broken down into : Find, Use, Share and Expand all human knowledge. Yahoo’s Social Search Strategy : Obtain a critical mass of high-quality, user generated content then leverage that knowledge in meta data. Tim uses MyWeb as an example of social media integrated into web search – bookmarking, tagging and sharing; My Bookmarks, My Contacts, Interesting Today (think del.icio.us Popular or Digg). How can marketers take advantage of Yahoo Answers? Yahoo! Answers: Smart (or Dumb) Mobs Go To Work - The Unofficial. Technology Review: Yahoo Ramps Up Research. For years, Yahoo has lagged behind its main rivals, Google and Microsoft, in offering new products and technologies.
Consider that while Microsoft spent $6.18 billion on product development in 2005, Yahoo spent a mere $547 million. Now a new sense of urgency has taken hold in Yahoo’s research offices. Most recently, the company hired Raghu Ramakrishnan, professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and an expert in data mining, information retrieval, and privacy.
He’ll work on the company’s social search technology (the best example is Yahoo Answers, which attempts to leverage the knowledge and experience of a community of people who answer questions and provide information). Another new hire, expected to start next month, is economist Michael Schwarz of the University of California in Berkeley, known for his analysis of online advertising models. Technology Review asked Raghavan about his research projects and plans for Yahoo Research. TR: How has research at Yahoo changed? 360° - Yahoo! Answers Team Blog (answers.yahoo.com) - A Louder V. Summing collective ignorance. A month ago, when I was talking about Yahoo Answers, I wrote: A popularity contest isn't the best way of getting to the truth.People don't know what they don't know. Majority vote doesn't work if people don't have the information they need to have an informed opinion.
Today, I saw Nathan Torkington's post on O'Reilly Radar, "Digging the Madness of the Crowds": Steve Mallett, O'Reilly Network editor and blogger, was very publicly accused, via a Digg story, of stealing Digg's CSS pages. The story was voted up rapidly and made the homepage, acquiring thousands of diggs (thumbs-up) from the Digg community along the way. There was only one problem: Steve didn't steal Digg's CSS pages. Take a majority vote from people who don't know the answer, and you're not going to get the right answer. See also my previous post, "Digg, spam, and most popular lists". On a side note, the O'Reilly Radar story mentions a site called Pligg. Update: There is a good discussion going on in the comments to this post.