Yahoo! Research is the central advanced research organization of Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide.

We're responsible for big inventions - our goals are nothing short of inventing the future of the Internet and creating the next generation of businesses for Yahoo!

Featured Project

4Cast

4Cast

Yahoo! 's 4Cast creates a game of friendly competition for its users who think they can predict who will win the next big game or what the stock market will do in the coming days.

Featured Researcher

Judd Antin


Judd was once a chef, singer, and writer. Recently, he made Technology Review's prestigious list of Top 35 Innovators Under 35.

In the News

  • Interview with Forbes
    How Yahoo! Knows Your Every Move and Yahoo! Scientists on the Future of Search. Forbes Publisher and Innovation Editor Rich Karlgaard recently sat down with Prabhakar Raghavan, Andrei Broder and Justin Rao.

  • Yahoo! at KDD-2011
    Yahoo! was in San Diego at the 17th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge and Discovery (KDD-2011), an international event for data mining researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government.

  • Judd Antin Listed as Top 35 Innovator
    Research Scientist Judd Antin is being recognized as one of this year’s MIT Technology Review top young innovators under 35.

  • A Class Apart
    Yahoos who attended this year’s Y! Summer School on Information Retrieval give it a big thumbs up! Find out why.

  • Big Thinker Scott E. Page at Yahoo!
    Scott E. Page, Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science, and Economics at the University of Michigan, recently visited the Yahoo! Labs campus in Santa Clara