Yahoo Software Development India Private Limited Looking for Graduates for Search Editor Post in Bangalore | February 2012

Company Name:Yahoo Software Development India Private Limited

Job Designation or Job Role:   Search Editor 

Candidate Educational Qualification: Graduates/Post Graduates

Candidate Experience Required : 0-4 years

CTC or Package Offered: Best in Market  

Job or Work Location: Bangalore

Functional Area : Customer Service/ Call Centre/ BPO, IT

Area of Working:IT/ Computers - Software

Candidate Profile:  

1. Understanding various types of web pages and classifying them. Annotating and extracting relevant data from  a diverse source of web sites.
2. To identify the ‘important/relevant information’ available on web pages.
3. Understanding the users of Search and determining what the users are looking for; especially North American users.
4. Understanding the cultural impact and sensitivity of the web content.
5. Making judgments about the quality and appropriateness of online content sources.
6. Performing relevance tests designed to measure data quality.
7. Create and maintain training documentation and guidelines.
8. Basic knowledge of HTML would be desirable, but not mandatory.

Job Description:  

Editorial, Search and Platform (ESP) is a global service organization covering every market that Yahoo! serves. Editorial refers to the functional group that makes human and manual choices as opposed to automated ones and should not be confused with other editorial groups at Yahoo. ESP works primarily with Search & Marketplaces but also partners with Platform, Media, and other product groups across the company. 

We work closely with Science, Engineering, and Product - providing content quality and analysis. We produce training data and evaluate user experience across the Products group. We also maintain content quality by managing databases or indices of content, whether from feed, crawl, or direct editing; this includes categorization, taxonomy development, and structured data extraction.

Company Profile :

 Yahoo Bangalore is all about Creative Environment!! Exciting Work!!

As the first R & D Center outside USA, we have always had a vibrant environment filled with a fun loving and brilliant bunch of people. So we do outstanding work and enjoy it thoroughly too. The agenda is simple: dream up and deliver ideas that make the World Wide Web a great place to be. 

Today, we are the "Life Engine" for more than 350 million people who cannot do without logging in to Yahoo! And it is our job to keep them humming happily while they use our internet products and services.Our success comes out of working together, and by nurturing, mentoring and guiding each other to make a real difference in the real world.

We offer an exciting, flexible work environment with great benefits and an attractive compensation package that includes stock! options.

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Company Website : www.yahoo.com

Company Address :
Yahoo Software Development India Pvt. Ltd (Bangalore)

3rd - 5th floor,
Torrey Pines,
Embassy Golf Links Business Park,
Indiranagar - Koramangala Intermediate Ring Road,
Bangalore, India