Yahoo!: Users don't want to search. They want answers

Submitted by Blake on May 20, 2009 - 7:05am
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Wired: Yahoo wants to kill the 10 blue links. The company thinks its customers don’t care how many pages a search engine indexes — nor do they want to search. They want answers.

At least, that’s what Prabhakar Raghavan, who heads Yahoo Labs and Yahoo Search Strategy told a group of reporters Tuesday at a briefing about Yahoo’s future in search.

Unfortunately, Yahoo had no real innovation to show off — just some better-integrated results and talks of search becoming smarter.

Comments

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on May 21, 2009 - 3:30pm.

I wonder if Roy Tennant's been doing some consulting work for Yahoo...

Submitted by Blake on May 21, 2009 - 9:12pm.

Exactly what I thought! That's why I pulled out the quote.