Article in NY Times today, Yahoo is wooing I.B.M. Technical Talent: Yahoo plans to announce Thursday that it is recruiting scientists who pioneered an advanced search-engine technology at I.B.M.’s Silicon Valley research laboratory. … Prabhakar Raghavan, a computer scientist who once led the Clever effort, joined Yahoo last week as head of research. He left… Read more ⇢

Steve Rubel and Niall Kennedy are reporting on a Yahoo RSS search service which was briefly public this morning. Seems to combine feed search (not just blogs, apparently, but other feed content, too, like Feedster) and several ranking options (date, relevance, and popularity). I’m curious about the popularity ranking, but I’d guess the initial version… Read more ⇢

Susan Mernit asks some interesting questions about tagging’s scalability in this post: … 1. How well will tagging work as an organizing and information retrieval method when there are millions of tags?–That’s where having additional filters, such as identity, trust or cohort group becomes relevant–becomes needed. 2. How can developers move tagging into a wider… Read more ⇢

Interesting informal experiment in the Yahoo! Buzz Log: Do you find blogs via links or through search? We wanted to know, so we lined up the top 20 blogs in the blogosphere according to Technorati … we did peek at the number of searches each received over the last week. … Turns out the lead… Read more ⇢