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YRL, A New Yahoo! Research Lab in Berkeley

Yahoo Inc. is going to school to improve its search results and other online features. The Sunnyvale Web portal plans to unveil a partnership today with UC Berkeley to open a research lab near the university campus.

The collaboration is intended to tap Berkeley's student and faculty brain power to create the next generation of online technology. Yahoo hopes to use any innovation from the lab on its Web portal, among the Internet's most popular destinations

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For additional information about Yahoo! Research Labs - Berkeley, please visit http://research.yahoo.com/berkeley/.

From [SearchEngineWatch] :

According to the Yahoo Research Labs-Berkeley site the lab will, "explore and invent social media and mobile media technology and applications that will enable people to create, describe, find, share, and remix media on the web."

Yahoo Mindset, and Yahoo SmartSort are two publilcy accesible demo projects being developed by members of the YRL.

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