Yahoo India collaborates with IIT Bombay
Rajeev Rastogi, VP and head of Yahoo! Labs India, said that "We are doing research with IIT Bombay on collaboration of search and information extraction." Search will evolve beyond 10 blue links and users will be presented with rich results instead of generic text.”
Search will evolve beyond 10 blue links and users will be presented with rich results instead of generic text,” says Rajeev Rastogi, VP and head of Yahoo! Labs India and he’s not making a prediction but stating the direction Yahoo’s search will be taking in the future, based on research his team is doing at the company.
“The idea is to dynamically create pages on a topic when a query is made. For example, if one searches for ‘Madonna’, this search will go through news, blogs, tweets, and create a multimedia page which will have all the information the user needs. Yahoo! has a lot of information from many properties, which will all be synthesised into a page,” Rastogi says.
This feature will be similar to cpedia.com, a website created by a bunch of ex-Googlers who set up a search engine called cuil.com, but failed to meet the hype.
Cpedia, too, came under criticism for presenting generic information and for being disjointed grammatically. Yahoo’s venture, however, won’t face such issues, says Rastogi. “We have systems which are used for extracting the most relevant sentences from a page and presenting it in search results, so there shouldn’t be any issues,” he says.
The other area Yahoo! Labs is looking at is a natural language search (a system where you put in direct queries instead of keywords), which Rastogi feels is still in an elementary stage.
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Apart from doing research within the company, Labs has also tied up with reputed Indian institutes such as the IITs and IISc, Bangalore for conducting research in the fields of machine learning.
“We are doing research with IIT Bombay on collaboration of search and information extraction,” he says.
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