Yahoo has been the forefront in search engine technology. Since its inception people have gone crazy about their technology as they index almost every website in the world, which at the time was small when compared to websites today. The company then grew bigger and bigger as they begin to offer other services such as email and instant messenger. Today, Yahoo Mail is one of the major free e-mail providers in the World Wide Web, and its instant messaging service is the premier in this type of services. With Yahoo Messenger, you can have free video calls with anyone around the world.
Yahoo isn’t stopping there. Even though the e-mail and instant messaging services has really helped humanity, Yahoo is still hitting the development table. They are still on the verge of developing something beneficial to the market, and today we will take a look at three services, all of which are currently at the beta version and could help us even more.
The first of them is the Yahoo Mindset. Released in May 2005 and still on their Beta Version, this kind of internet research will revolutionize the way you search the internet. Using this mindset, a person can actually customize the search of a certain product towards something more informative or for shopping purposes. There is a little meter that gauges whether the customer is looking for informative websites or shopping websites about a particular product, and websites are screened according to the meter. If the cursor is placed on either end of the meter, screened websites will be purely about either shopping or information. This is beneficial for shoppers and researchers. Researchers can weed out online stores and go directly to known documents about something. The same thing happens with the shoppers.
Next is the Yahoo Podcasts. This service is a reaction to the ever growing popularity of digital podcasts. Podcasters can enjoy this service since all they have to do is to inform the website of the RSS feed and let yahoo do the rest. Yahoo will search for the latest Podcast in your webpage and display them on your own yahoo podcasts webpage. People can directly listen there, make comments and even rate and download your episodes.
Lastly is the social bookmarking service of Yahoo called MyWeb. This Yahoo service can help you save all your bookmarks online. These bookmarks can be tagged as you can create short comments or introductions about these webpages. These bookmarks then are shared with the people you know and even the whole world. MyWeb is like Squidoo and Digg where you introduce the people to a website with your personal experience about it.
These are just a few of the services that Yahoo is currently developing. Yahoo has put up the beta version so that the public can test drive the website and report something they don’t like such as a feature than doesn’t work. Forums are created where developers and Yahoo users share ideas on what they like, don’t like, and expect from the service. This way, when the final release is introduced to the public, the service is already near perfect as it is.
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