Prabhakar Raghavan was interviewed by David Shabelman for this article on News.com. His comments continue the thread that Yahoo! is developing ways to continue building on the compilation of data, reviews and self-perpetuating editorial and product opinion that comes from the many personalizable destination web properties within Yahoo!. This is opposed to working to be a search engine destination.


A notable comment from the article's author

"[Raghavan] says Yahoo's goal ... is to let Internet users retrieve precisely the information they're seeking on the Web without having to search for it."


Notable statements from Raghavan

"Google has done a great job not just of innovating, but also of projecting that innovation. We at Yahoo are sometimes guilty of not projecting the innovation as heavily."

"If you ask the question, "What can Yahoo hope to innovate that Google probably wouldn't?" the answer is that it's to exploit these characteristics, because we have the capability to do so. The goal is to create an ecosystem we call the social media space where you don't just have big media producing the content. Instead, you have this long tail of content creators, potentially a billion people all writing their own opinions and views that we, Yahoo, will sift through to make sense of. It's taking all of this together and providing a total information experience, and I believe we have a good shot of leading that."