Yahoo! opens R&D center in Israel, inks deal with Walla!

Following Microsoft and Google, Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO) is officially coming to Israel – with a bang. The search engine’s penetration plan has two fronts: opening an R&D center in Haifa and entering the content business through an agreement with Walla! (TASE:WALA), the second largest Israeli portal: offering news & entertainment content, email services and search, making …

Israel scores 2 out 10 top alternative search engines

Alt Search Engines, a blog by Charles Knight covering alternative-search, ranked the top 10 alternative search engines of 2007. Among the ten finalists, the 2nd and 4th places were taken by Israel-based search engines. Answers.com is an SEO engine covering over 4 million topics through relationships with about 180 reference publishers. Unlike traditional search engines, …

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