Unable to beat Google in the Web search business on its own, Yahoo is trying a new approach. Yahoo wants to enlist a small army of search start-ups as allies in the hope that collectively they will be able to stop the Google juggernaut, whose share of Web searches keeps growing. To do so, on Thursday Yahoo is opening its search technology and powerful data centers to other companies, allowing them to build new or customized search engines without having to make the huge investments needed. (source: yhoo.client.shareholder.com)
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