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===Yahoo! Next===
===Yahoo! Next===
Here users can find services and products to be launched by Yahoo! in coming days. All the services mentioned in this section are under beta testing and users can give their feedback by using the services. It helps Yahoo! greatly in knowing how the users would welcome the new service or product being designed at the company.
Here users can find services and products to be launched by Yahoo! in coming days. All the services mentioned in this section are under beta testing and users can give their feedback by using the services. It helps Yahoo! greatly in knowing how the users would welcome the new service or product being designed at the company.
===Yahoo! BOSS===
BOSS stands for Build your own Search Service. It is Yahoo’s customizable search service which lets you display the results of your search in the format you want. The most amazing feature about Yahoo! BOSS is that you can add your own image thumbnails to the search result page. You can also hide those pages which you would never want to see in your search result page.<ref>[http://www.labnol.org/internet/tutorial-create-yahoo-boss-site-search/5636/]</ref> BOSS provides you with an opportunity with the help of which you can access Yahoo’s investments in indexing and crawling, powerful infrastructure and relevancy and ranking algorithm. It is a platform for next generation.<ref>[http://www.programmableweb.com/api/yahoo-boss]</ref>
===Yahoo! Koprol===
Indonesia’s primary social networking site which is location based, Koprol, was acquired by yahoo quite recently. Since then, it has seen around 20-fold increase in the number of people using this site. It has a large number of members from America, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam. But almost 80 to 90 percent of its users are from Indonesia. It is now known as Yahoo! Koprol. It has been successful in creating around 3000 business profiles which are mostly medium or small sized business enterprises with the help of its feature called “Koprol for business” launched in February. Some of the interesting features of Koprol are “People Finder”, “Onboarding”, “Hovercard”, “Hot-Tags”, “Koprol Stamp”, etc.<ref>[http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/07/08/yahoo-koprol-sees-users-increase-20-fold-a-year.html]</ref>
===Y Connect===
Y Connect is a tool built by yahoo to track users around the internet world in a better way. The purpose is to provide more modified advertisements so that the advertisers can get better options to target upon. A user can register and then log in into websites with just a click on the yahoo button provided by them. As they log in, all the things that they do in the website is shared with yahoo and can be used for advertising in a better way.<ref>[http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-to-offer-y-connect-while-facebook-undergoes-privacy-scrutiny-53151]</ref>
===Yahoo! Messenger===
One of the longest established and VoIP client, Yahoo Messenger has a lot of powerful features for its users. You can drag and drop, import contacts from IM, social networking sites and other web accounts of your friends who are a yahoo messenger user. You can also see videos and pictures that your friend posts in a public URL in the chat window provided. The latest, YM 10 has a few visual enhancements so that you can do video chatting. You can also see updates from your pals in the Tweaks window which is used as a newsfeed. So YM is a feature rich, easy to use chatting tool which is continuously improving.<ref>[http://download.cnet.com/Yahoo-Messenger/3000-2150_4-10029188.html]</ref>
==Acquisitions==
==Acquisitions==