Yahoo's new service is aimed at ... shopping

Yahoo plans to add new functionality to the search service, making it more convenient for users to enjoy shopping access to product information.

Deputy director of the Latin American and European Center for Research and Development, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, said the new search structure will receive user-entered keywords, such as "mobile phones". In order to produce a regular results page, Yahoo also offers a drop-down menu that provides options from brands, specifications, to the functions and technological features of mobile phones.

This is a useful function for e-commerce applications. Once the user makes a choice in the menu list provided, the Yahoo search engine will immediately issue a price listing along with the phone provider website.

Along with the goal of making a difference in search technology compared to other competitors including Google. So far, Yahoo is working with new search service architecture distributors through projects to set up data center networks in many countries, enabling improved performance of search commands on the index. billions of websites at the same time. Besides, the multilingual search function is also focused on developing, instead of executing the right grammatical search, Yahoo boosts the technique of analyzing the main idea of ​​keywords to produce the corresponding results.

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