Yahoo! Labs is a division of Yahoo!

Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...

 responsible for research into the science of the Internet and creating the next generation of businesses for Yahoo!. Yahoo! Labs scientists and engineers concentrate on computer science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

, ranking

Ranking

A ranking is a relationship between a set of items such that, for any two items, the first is either 'ranked higher than', 'ranked lower than' or 'ranked equal to' the second....

, machine learning

Machine learning

Machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is a scientific discipline concerned with the design and development of algorithms that allow computers to evolve behaviors based on empirical data, such as from sensor data or databases...

, microeconomics

Microeconomics

Microeconomics is a branch of economics that studies the behavior of how the individual modern household and firms make decisions to allocate limited resources. Typically, it applies to markets where goods or services are being bought and sold...

 (such as mechanism design

Mechanism design

Mechanism design is a field in game theory studying solution concepts for a class of private information games...

 and auction theory

Auction theory

Auction theory is an applied branch of economics which deals with how people act in auction markets and researches the properties of auction markets. There are many possible designs for an auction and typical issues studied by auction theorists include the efficiency of a given auction design,...

), human computer interaction, sociology

Sociology

Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

 and information retrieval

Information retrieval

Information retrieval is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching structured storage, relational databases, and the World Wide Web...

, among others. Yahoo! Labs is led by Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan

Prabhakar Raghavan

Prabhakar Raghavan is Chief Strategy Officer, Executive Vice President, and Head of Yahoo! Labs. Raghavan oversees the growth of the research, applied science and academic relations functions globally at Yahoo! Labs centers in the U.S., Europe, Asia and the Middle East.Raghavan is the co-author of...

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Yahoo! Labs is organized into five areas of focus:

• Research
• Advertising Sciences
• Audience Sciences
• Search Sciences
• Academic Relations

Employees include Prabhakar Raghavan

Prabhakar Raghavan

Prabhakar Raghavan is Chief Strategy Officer, Executive Vice President, and Head of Yahoo! Labs. Raghavan oversees the growth of the research, applied science and academic relations functions globally at Yahoo! Labs centers in the U.S., Europe, Asia and the Middle East.Raghavan is the co-author of...

, Andrei Broder

Andrei Broder

Andrei Zary Broder is a Research Fellow and Vice President of Emerging Search Technology for Yahoo!. He previously has worked for AltaVista as the vice president of research, and for IBM Research as a Distinguished Engineer and CTO of IBM's Institute for Search and Text Analysis.Broder's research...

, Preston McAfee

Preston McAfee

Preston McAfee is a Vice President and Research Fellow at Yahoo! Research where he leads the Microeconomics and Social Systems group. Prior to Yahoo!, he was the J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Business, Economics, and Management at the California Institute of Technology, where he was the...

, Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Ricardo Baeza-Yates is a Chilean computer scientist and currently VP for EMEA and Latin America leading the Yahoo! Research labs at Barcelona, Spain and Santiago, Chile, supervising also the lab in Haifa, Israel. His Ph.D...

, Ronald J. Brachman

Ronald J. Brachman

Ronald J. "Ron" Brachman is currently Vice President of Yahoo! Labs and Research Operations at Yahoo! Labs. He is also the Head of Yahoo!'s Academic Relations organization. Prior to working at Yahoo!, he worked at DARPA as a the Director of the Information Processing Technology Office , one of...

, and Raghu Ramakrishnan

Raghu Ramakrishnan

Raghu 'The Ramrod' Ramakrishnan is a renowned researcher in the areas of database and information management. He is currently a Vice President and Research Fellow for Yahoo! Inc. Previously, he was a Professor of at the University of Wisconsin–Madison....

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Yahoo! Labs is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA and Santa Clara, CA; it has five additional locations worldwide: Barcelona, Spain; Santiago, Chile; New York; Haifa, Israel; and Bangalore, India.

Yahoo! Labs’ Research group is divided into five teams:

• Search and Web Mining
• Machine Learning
• Economics and Social Systems
• Computational Advertising
• Web Information Management.