Yahoo developing new search engine

Via CNet News: Yahoo is hoping to come up with a new and improved search engine that includes images, video, news and local searches. The launch is waiting for approval from its software developer team as project co- founder Jerry Yang introduces it to the Search Engine Strategies Conference in New York. If the project is convincing, software developers will create new applications on top of Yahoo search through the use of application programming interfaces, or APIs. "Search is not just a service; it's becoming a piece of the infrastructure of the Internet, its file system. We're making it much easier for third parties to develop value-added services for search," said director of product management Eckart Walther. Yahoo also hopes to create a program, which will broaden its database on colloquial words such as "bling bling."