The results of a search on the web is built on one side, and are prioritized into categories. The list is based on calculations that Yahoo! computers make on certain information the user seeks.
Yahoo! have indicated that they also plan to adopt Novarra mobile content transcoding service for oneSearch platform.
Commerce
Yahoo! offers trade services like Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Autos, Yahoo! Property and Yahoo! Travel, which allows users to gather relevant information and make commercial transactions and purchases online. In addition, Yahoo! offers e-commerce platform called Yahoo! Merchant Solutions (also known as Yahoo! Store), and is host to several Top 500 Internet retailers than any other hosted e-commerce solution. Yahoo! Auctions were discontinued in 2007, with exceptions for Asia.
Small Business
Yahoo! offer services such as Yahoo! Domains, Yahoo! Web Hosting, Yahoo! Merchant Solutions, Yahoo! Business Mail and Yahoo! Great for small businesses and professionals so that they can build their own online stores using Yahoo! 'S tools.
Yahoo! also offers HotJobs to help employers find the talent they seek.Advertising
Yahoo! Search Marketing provides services such as Sponsored Search, Local Advertising, and Product / Travel / Directory Submit that let different businesses advertise their products and services on Yahoo! network. Yahoo! Publisher Network is a promotional tool for publishers to place ads that are relevant to their content to monetize their websites.
Yahoo! launched its new Internet advertisement sales system 5 February 2007 called Panama. It lets advertisers bid on keywords based on their popularity to display their ads on search result pages. The system takes bids, ad quality, click-through rates and other factors when determining how ads are ranked on search results pages. Through Panama, Yahoo! designed to deliver more relevant search results to the user experience as well as to increase income earning more on the ads it shows.
7. April 2008, Yahoo! announced Yahoo! AMP!, An online advertising management platform. The platform seeks to simplify advertising sales unifying buyer and seller markets. This service is scheduled for release in the 3rd quarter of 2008.
