Announcing Yahoo! Slacker
- Posted April 1st, 2005 at 12:00 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: News/Announcements
Today we’re thrilled to be announcing an upcoming product that’s
near and dear to the heart of high school and college students around
the world: Yahoo! Slacker.
What is it?
Yahoo! Slacker will be the culmination of several efforts to
provide a set of integrated services for… well, slackers. Yahoo!
Slacker will include the following:
- Book Slacker is a full-text searchable index composed of the
popular Cliffs Notes and - IM Slacker is a “parental response”
auto-responds to your IMs from your parents with “Sorry, I’m
studying…” while you chat with friends. - Local Slacker will find the
nearest pizza and provide one-click ordering. - Music Slacker automatically scans
that played on the previous night’s episode of The O.C. - Spelling Slacker will use our
API and our vast experience in
a Microsoft Word plug-in to ensure you have enough of those squiggly
red lines in your homework assignments.
How?
Well, scanners are cheap these days.
cheap. When you combine a few $60 scanners with some willing Ph.D
interns, we expect the entire book scanning project to take no more
than 4 weeks and $6,000.
Everything else is being built on our existing infrastructure by a
few engineers during their “slacking time.” At Yahoo!, engineers
sometimes spend parts of their weekends and holidays slacking off.
Now, those engineers are encouraged to spend 20% of that slacking time
working on the Yahoo! Slacker project.
When?
Yahoo! Slacker will be available at
in time for the 2005 school year.
Unless we don’t finish it in time…
Jose Marlock
Yahoo! Slacker
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Hey, you made a typo in the link to slacker.yahoo.com. There should not be a forward-slash at the end of the URI. That is, it should just be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_fool%27s_day ;)
I never could spell. Especially URLs.
hehe nice one….
Good one :)
oh i want to be a slacker! May i get it for real please…
Awww, Jose! Why you tease me?! I so needed this! And I work at Y!
You have got to build this. Now.
I need Y! Slacker@Work. Change the ParentIMV to BossBlockerIMV. (“Yes, boss! I’ll get right on it.”)
And a Status Report Slacker. Auto-generate what I did this week. (No lowlights – everything was done, and more!)
I’ll be in at … around 10. Or 11.
Ping you when I get in with more ideas. Or not.
Ah man I knew it was only a dream!!!
this is your reply to Google? that’s retard!
I think someone was being a slacker on the typo…
Say what you want, but Yahoo is moving ahead, unlike elgooG.
Some of those actually seem like a good idea. Book slacker, local slacker and music slacker all sound great.
Pupna is the search engine puppy that retrieves EXACTLY what you are searching for (and absolutely nothing else!) http://www.pupna.com
“A true breakthrough in Fetch Engine technology… Google and Yahoo have nothing even remotely comparable!” – Technology Review Magazine (April 1, 2005 print edition)
I will try :)