Yahoo! Research is a research organization established on January 2004 within 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 ,...

. It is currently headed by 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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Topics within Yahoo! Research include: Internet search, 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...

, Media Experience, and Community Systems.

Locations include:

• Barcelona, Spain
• Bangalore, India
• Yahoo! Research Berkeley
  Yahoo! Research Berkeley
  Yahoo! Research Berkeley is a research partnership between Yahoo! Inc. and the University of California, Berkeley to 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...
  
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• Burbank, CA
• Haifa, Israel
• New York, NY
• Santa Clara, CA
• Santiago, Chile
  Santiago, Chile
  Santiago , also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level...
  
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Research

Yahoo!Research has produced findings of scholarly significance, publishing an article titled Origins of Homophily in an Evolving Social Network , in The American Journal of Sociology. This article looks at patterns of friendship as indicated by email sending patterns, and more broadly, shows the promise of using technological and internet based sources in social science research.