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Have you cut down on your tech spending?
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Yahoo! at SES San Jose
With Search Engine Strategies starting this week, we get a sneak peek from Vice President Larry Cornett on his panel on how searchers interact with search engines on Wednesday at 1 - 2:15 p.m. Also you'll find a glimpse of where the entire Yahoo! Search team will be throughout the show.Be sure to check out the Yahoo! Search Marketing blog for more details on other Yahoo! speakers at the event.We hope to see you there.Yahoo! Search Blog teamYahoo! Search Blog (YSB): Can you give us a sneak peek into what you plan to talk about at the show?Larry Cornett (LC): I will be on a panel at SES entitled "Search User Behavior Update." The title of my talk for that panel is "Thinking Beyond the Search Results Page." What I mean by that is most of us in the Search industry have historically been focused on the performance of the search results page, referrals and conversion. We need to step back to consider what people are really trying to accomplish in the real world, which extends well beyond the Web and into their daily lives. I plan on sharing what we at Yahoo! Search do to better understand our users and how they experience Search end-to-end within the context of their larger tasks. This includes the great work done by our Customer Insights and Metrics & Analysis teams, which ranges from ethnographic field studies to eye-tracking research. We are really interested in helping users more easily craft better searches and get straight to the answers they are looking for.YSB: What are you most focused on for Yahoo! Search today?LC: First, we have continued to focus on our mission to help get users from "to do" to "done" as quickly and as safe as possible when they use Yahoo! Search. That includes continuing to advance the great Search Assist technology that we recently launched and SearchScan a feature launched in May 2008 that helps protect users from viruses, spyware and spam. Second, we've added a really exciting new development platform called SearchMonkey which allows publishers, site owners and developers to leverage structured data to enhance the functionality, appearance and usefulness of search results in our Search experience. We are continuing to evolve the Monkey and work with publishers and developers to bring more enhanced results to our users from sites like Yelp, Yahoo! Local, and LinkedIn. It's a great way for users to more quickly find the information they need to complete their real world tasks. And recently we've launched Yahoo! Search BOSS, which is a web services platform that allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products by utilizing the same infrastructure and technology that powers Yahoo! Search. We are continuing to work with startups and developers like Me.dium, Hakia, Daylife, and Cluuz to bring entirely new search experiences to life.YSB: What kind of innovation do you see happening in Search today?LC: Well, of course I am a little biased, but I have to say that both Yahoo! SearchMonkey and Yahoo! Search BOSS are two of the biggest innovations in the Search landscape today. We are encouraging and enabling innovation on a whole new scale. But, there are a number of other companies doing very interesting things in the Search space as well.Yahoo! Search Speaker ScheduleMonday, August 18thUniversal & Blended Search9:45 - 11 a.m.Cris Pierry, Senior Director of Product ManagementSemantic Search -- How will it change our lives?11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.Amit Kumar, Director Product ManagementTuesday, August 19thShopping Search Tactics11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.Greg Hintz, General Manager, Yahoo! ShoppingWednesday, August 20thSearcher Behavior Research Update1 - 2:15 p.m.Larry Cornett, Vice President, User Experience and DesignThursday, August 21stOrganic Listings Forum1:30 - 2:30 p.m.Sharad Verma, Senior Product Manager
Meet the BOSS Team at TechCrunch50
Yahoo! is joining Michael Arrington as a major sponsor at TechCrunch50, TechCrunch's second annual conference, at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse Monday through Wednesday, September 8 - 10.More than 50 early stage companies will pitch their products and ideas in front of a host of respected VCs, execs and entrepreneurs. A panel of judges will also award $50,000 to one of the startups. Yahoo!'s Ash Patel, Head of the Audience Products Division, will serve as one of the TechCrunch50 judges this year.
The Yahoo! Search BOSS team will also be exhibiting, so if you're a start-up or interested in starting a business in this space, stop by our booth to learn more about our open search web services platform, meet the team and see a demo of the product. We'll be there from 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. all three days. We'll also be giving away some swag and maybe a prize or two.But what's a TechCrunch gathering without some socializing? Yahoo! is sponsoring the closing cocktail reception on Wednesday from 6 - 8 p.m., so don't miss it.For more details on TechCrunch50 2008 and Yahoo!'s presence at the show -- including Ash Patel's panel on Monday from 2:15 - 5 p.m. -- check out the conference site.Yahoo! Search Blog team
Five Yahoo! Search Panels at SMX East
At the Javits Convention Center in New York next week, the Yahoo! Search team will speak on five SMX East panels to address a number of industry topics, including spam, URLs and domains, design techniques, and enhanced listings. Also, the team will offer answers to your questions and give you a behind-the-scenes look at search engines in the "Ask the Search Engines" SEO Track on Wednesday.Check out our line-up and stop by if you're in the neighborhood. You can find the team at the Meet & Eat tables during lunch on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday too.Tuesday, October 7thTime: 10:45 a.m. - noonSession: What is Spam?Description: Search representatives share their views on what search spam is.Yahoo!: Sean Suchter, VP of EngineeringTime: 1:30 - 2:45 p.m.Session: Unraveling URLs & Demystifying DomainsDescription: This session looks at a variety of URL and domain name issues you should consider to increase your success with SEO.Yahoo!: Sean Suchter, VP of EngineeringTime: 3:15 - 4:30 p.m.Session: CSS, AJAX, Web 2.0 and SEODescription: CSS, AJAX and Web 2.0 dynamic design techniques can cause search engine indexing and ranking issues. This session examines solutions to consider.Yahoo!: Sharad Verma, Senior Product Manager, Web SearchTime: 3:15 - 4:30 p.m.Session: Enhanced ListingsDescription: Search engines are moving towards enhanced listings. How can search marketers tap into them?Yahoo!: Larry Cornett, VP of Consumer ProductsWednesday, October 8thTime: 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.Session: Ask the Search Engines (SEO Track)Description: This Q&A panel gives a behind-the-scenes look at how things work in the world of indexing and ranking pages.Yahoo!: Sean Suchter, VP of EngineeringThe Yahoo! Search Marketing team is speaking on a number of other panels as well, so be sure to check out the conference site for more details on their whereabouts. Hope to see you there.Yahoo! Search Blog team
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