Jerusalem Post

“The Yahoo! Research Israel Lab, which began operations last week, will focus on turning complex technology problems into simple solutions to change the game in web search.”

Associated Press

“Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo! Research, said online search technology is still in its infancy and he hopes to develop new techniques that are ‘significantly beyond the current art.’” Full Story

Maariv

“Yahoo’s attractiveness, in Raghavan’s opinion, is ‘the knowledge that the technologies that will be developed today in Yahoo’s centre will be used tomorrow by half a billion Yahoo users around the world’.”

Reuters

“’Search is still in its infancy,’ Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo Research, said in a statement. ‘At Yahoo, we are working on the hard core science that can lead to search experiences that are significantly beyond the current art.’” Full Story

Calcalist

“Every day, Yahoo deals with hundreds of millions of searches with a volume of 20 terabytes. Dealing in such large volumes requires abilities that are not simple, and it’s not easy to find engineers that know how to contend with these problems.”

BusinessWeek

“In this scheme, Web pages cease to be destinations.” Full Story