Date:06/03/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/03/06/stories/2008030655351800.htm

Business - Briefly

Yahoo launches research lab in Bangalore

BANGALORE: Yahoo launched its first research lab in India on Tuesday. Yahoo Labs, the facility in Bangalore, will focus on search technologies and computational advertising. Prabhakar Raghavan, Senior Vice-President and Head, Yahoo Research, said the company’s research in computational advertising would enable searches by users to be matched with relevant advertisements. Rajeev Rastogi, Vice-President, Yahoo, will head Yahoo Labs. — Special Correspondent