The Rodney Dangerfield of search engines is starting to get a little annoyed about its plight.
Yahoo hosted a search event at its headquarters Wednesday that seemed designed mainly to remind the Silicon Valley press that it is still working on Internet search. A few new projects were shown off, such as an interesting mobile search feature that lets you draw a circle around an area of a map to narrow search results called Sketch-a-search.
But the vast majority of the morning's event--led by new search chief Shashi Seth--was a reiteration of Yahoo's strategy for organizing "a Web of things" as opposed to a Web of links, with the implication that rival Google is only good at returning a sea of links. The company also hoped to correct what it feels are ongoing misconceptions about its role following its pending move to outsource back-end search to Microsoft's Bing division.
More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10451378-265.html
Yahoo hosted a search event at its headquarters Wednesday that seemed designed mainly to remind the Silicon Valley press that it is still working on Internet search. A few new projects were shown off, such as an interesting mobile search feature that lets you draw a circle around an area of a map to narrow search results called Sketch-a-search.
But the vast majority of the morning's event--led by new search chief Shashi Seth--was a reiteration of Yahoo's strategy for organizing "a Web of things" as opposed to a Web of links, with the implication that rival Google is only good at returning a sea of links. The company also hoped to correct what it feels are ongoing misconceptions about its role following its pending move to outsource back-end search to Microsoft's Bing division.
More: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10451378-265.html