Yahoo! gets criticized a lot from a business perspective, and the company launches some pretty hokey products, but a lot of the work going on there is fabulous. Yahoo's search team has done more than almost any other major vendor in the market to support the open standards and semantic web work that we love so much. Yahoo's Build Your Own Search Service and Search Monkey markup are incredibly innovative. (See also And Nerds Became Kings: Yahoo! To Announce Semantic Web Support.)
- Larry Cornett
Formerly known as “Research Assistant” Yahoo is starting to introduce (to selected users) what it’s now calling “Search Pad,” an application that automatically collects sites and content as users conduct online research. By contrast, Google has shuttered (for new users) its similar but less developed Notebook service.
- Larry Cornett