Yahoo! Search Leverages Human Knowledge From Yahoo! Answers to Improve Web Search; Yahoo! Answers Surpasses 10 Million Answers to Everyday Questions From Real People

Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internetcompany, announced the general availability of Yahoo! Answers,http://answers.yahoo.com, an online community where people can ask andanswers questions on any topic. With an index of human knowledge thathas grown to more than 10 million answers since its beta launch inDecember 2005, Yahoo! Search is integrating user insight from Yahoo!Answers into Web search to make it more comprehensive and useful.Yahoo! Answers is available today in Australia, Canada, India, the UKand the US, with Spain, Germany and France coming soon. Additionally,Yahoo! Knowledge Search, a Yahoo! Answers-type product, is availablein China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.

"The integration of Yahoo! Answers with Web search demonstratesthe Yahoo! Search vision to enrich people's lives by enabling them tofind, use, share and expand all human knowledge," said Eckart Walther,vice president of products at Yahoo! Search. "Yahoo! is providing abetter search experience by making it easier for people to tap intothe collective knowledge of others online for everyday questions."

Yahoo! Search users can now search the Web in everyday languageand view relevant information from Yahoo! Answers in their searchresults and via a Yahoo! Shortcut. For example, searching "What's thebest dog for an apartment?" will result in several links to resolvedquestions from Yahoo! Answers on the same topic. Search "Advice onCanon camera" and below the search results, users will find a Yahoo!Shortcut with a link to all search results in Yahoo! Answers on Canoncameras and links to several resolved questions.

To encourage participation and reward quality and relevantanswers, Yahoo! Answers has a system of points and levels. The numberof points users are rewarded depends on their participation level.Yahoo! Answers users who are regularly voted as providing the "bestanswer" can build a reputation within the community as a trustedsource for information on specific topics. As a user attains higherpoint levels, they can ask, answer, vote, and rate more frequently.

Other key new features to Yahoo! Answers since its beta launchinclude:

-- Search Ahead: When users type in their question, Yahoo! Answers searches ahead by keyword/question phrasing and displays exact or similar questions just below. Users can view those questions to see if they have already found their answer before posting their question.

-- Category Top Answerers: When users click into a Yahoo! Answers top-level category, they see the category's "top answerer," or user with the most "best answers" in that category. They can also click the "top 10 answerers" link to see the top ten people with the most "best answers."

-- RSS feeds: Yahoo! Answers users can display the latest questions in a category, subcategory, even the entire site, as well as keep track of their favorite questions on their My Yahoo! and Yahoo! 360 pages.

-- Yahoo! Product Integration: Yahoo! Answers is integrated with other leading Yahoo! products, including My Yahoo!, Yahoo! Tech, Yahoo! 360, Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger to allow users to connect and share real life experiences and advice with others that share similar interests.

Other product features coming soon include a new ratings andreputation system that will reward high-quality questions and answers.Users will be able to rate all questions and answers, and theseratings will be used to identify the best content, as well asrecognize users who consistently post quality content.

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the mosttrafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! seeks to provideonline products and services essential to users' lives, and offers afull range of tools and marketing solutions for businesses to connectwith Internet users around the world. Yahoo! is headquartered inSunnyvale, California.