Comments on: Academics sink teeth into Yahoo search service

Yahoo hopes its Build Your Own Search Service program has piqued the interest of academic researchers. Next stop: start-ups.

[n3td3v]

Its actually BYOSS, not BOSS... yahoo is so retarded, its little things like this that make people not like yahoo anymore.

[Shankland]

Yes, watching people's tortured acronym creation process is always painful to watch.

[JetJaguar]

I'm glad to see Yahoo! focusing on its first love, search. I know originally it was a "directory, not a search engine", but for all intents and purposes, its about finding things. I think Yahoo! can compete with Google in the realm of search, and not worry so much about offering everything possible, with a snack bar on every other page.

[globalist_agenda]

Yahoo "spam' filter is brain dead. Why can't this company get the most basic things to work right? You would think that after I told the spam filter a dozen times already that "make $97 and hour working at home" is spam it would figure it out by now. I received at least two dozen "Bank of Burkina Faso" and "You have won the Irish lottery" emails. Sorry Yahoo, but it's 2008 not 1998.

[Imalittleteapot]

I always wanted to win the irish lottery.

[bridge solution]

the elegance of the yahoo paradigm is shown in the "jaguar" example. there is anecdotal evidence that google is getting that computation added by measuring time per page, server side: i.e, that if "jaguar" give me a page 1 on garbage about apple, tat has met htting next page as fast as possible, the next time i search "jaguar" the cat has a statisitical chance of showing up. i would state this as google logging a "link" between "me" and cat, regardless of what pages link to each other.
Ads served to me by yhoo tend to be more accurate than ones by goog.

and when yhoo serves me 300 emails about "3 inches".....i know someone whose machine connects to my address book has had their machine zombied, and yhoo knows better than to deny me contact from them, and waits for their isp to tell them they been zombied.
19% of 3 is bigger than 19% of 2.2...without stealing from anyone's market share. coaxing the world to 3.0 is, in my pov, truly clear thinking by yhoo...which in 1996 suggested to me after a 3 hour human guinea pig job of replying to its heuristic, i might want to subscribe to the journal of the danish girl scouts.
the google behemoth??..size is everything in nature, and that's why the dinosaurs rule the earth.... o... never mind.