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Yahoo hires a Social Search Strategist

yahoo hires database geniousTrying to one-up Google, Yahoo has just acquired a Database genius. Yahoo hopes to beat out Google by specifically targeting social search.

Raghu Ramakrishnan was formerly a professor of computer sciences at UW Madison, and will now be concentrating on studying links between computer and human search. With the help of Raghu, Yahoo is planning a social attack with its array of recent acquisitions including Flickr, del.icio.us, and its recent Yahoo Answers.


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