Yahoo opens research facilities in Spain and Chile, as it looks overseas for Internet search brain power.Yahoo unveiled Monday the company's first-ever research facilities located outside the United States.
The labs, in Santiago, Chile, and Barcelona, Spain, exemplify how Internet search interests are looking internationally for new talent and innovation.
Read more here about Yahoo's U.S. research facilities.
The new Yahoo centers are led by Web search expert Ricardo Baeza-Yates, who is based at the Yahoo Barcelona facility. Baeza-Yates created the Center for Web Research in Santiago. He is a former Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Each facility will be staffed predominantly by students and professors from local universities.
Hyper-competitive Internet search providers constantly tinker. A new feature can boost traffic to the search engine, which translates into more ad revenue. The sale of ads are the sole source of a search engine's revenues.
Why look overseas for brain power? Elite Internet search talent no longer lives just in the United States, according to Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo's research arm, and it's tougher to persuade that talent to relocate to America. The kinds of facilities Yahoo's opened help solve the dilemma.
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