Yahoo! Research
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Yahoo! Research is a research organization established on January 2004[1] within Yahoo!. It is currently headed by Prabhakar Raghavan[2].
Topics within Yahoo! Research include: Internet search, Machine Learning, Microeconomics, Media Experience, and Community Systems.
Locations include:
- Barcelona, Spain
- Bangalore, India
- Yahoo! Research Berkeley, CA
- Burbank, CA
- Haifa, Israel
- New York, NY
- Santa Clara, CA
- Santiago, Chile.
[edit] Research
Yahoo!Research has produced findings of scholarly significance, publishing an article titled Origins of Homophily in an Evolving Social Network [3], in The American Journal of Sociology. This article looks at patterns of friendship as indicated by email sending patterns, and more broadly, shows the promise of using technological and internet based sources in social science research. [4]
[edit] References
- ^ "Yahoo! Establishes Yahoo! Research Labs" (Press release). Yahoo!. 2004-01-19. http://research.yahoo.com/news/yahoo_establishes_yahoo_reasearch_labs_to_advance_enhance_technology_innovation. Retrieved 2007-07-02.
- ^ http://research.yahoo.com/bouncer_user/96
- ^ http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/599247
- ^ http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/52239/title/The_Ties_That_Bind
