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This article might disagree with you: Yahoo Keeps Buying Startups That Don't Make Their Own Apps http://readwrite.com/2013/07/03/yahoo-qwiki-lawsuit-chaotic-mo

• hga 13y ago
  Oh my. Yahoo has lots of problems with execution, we shouldn't be surprised if due diligence is another example, especially when they think they're in the 11th hour.
  • hkmurakami 13y ago
    well considering Yahoo doesn't power their own search engine, maybe they're okay with teams who are adept at creating great UI and UX wrappers around 3rd party licensed technology.
    • jclos 13y ago
      This is actually quite sad considering Yahoo has an excellent research division in Barcelona in information retrieval. Maybe they should start funding them more instead of letting them fund themselves with huge european projects.
    • wikiburner 13y ago
      I thought they were dropping/had dropped Bing? Is that not accurate?
      • nashequilibrium 13y ago
        No, they take the links from bing and provide a more interactive experience on top of it. I just finished reading a research paper last month where they explain it. The concept made sense but their execution is really terrible. Their web page just looks too cluttered, distracting away from the users search experience.
        • wikiburner 13y ago
          Interesting, thanks. Is that paper by chance publicly available?