The initiative, one would infer from today’s Financial Express interview of Raghavan, will build on Yahoo’s BOSS (build your own search software) platform, which implements a “self-service Web services model for developers and start-ups.”
Raghavan says BOSS “takes Yahoo’s open strategy to the next level by providing Yahoo search infrastructure and technology to developers and companies to help them build their own search experiences.” Raghavan estimates the capital-investment cost of becoming a serious (Web) search player, absent a head-start of the form BOSS would provide, at $300 million. At the same time, he believes innovation is dampened by the search dominance of his company (21% US share in May), Google (62%), and Microsoft Live Search (9%).
Full article: http://www.intelligententerprise.com/blog/archives/2008/08/yahoo_plans_a_n.html
