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Company Yahoo has released the beta-version of the Internet-pager Yahoo Messenger 9.0.

In the presented software product a plenty of improvements and innovations is realized. Developers, in particular, allocate the advanced interface, completely updated appearance of the list of contacts and additional skins. In pager Yahoo Messenger 9.0 there was a support of additional languages for the users living in territories of Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India and Vietnam.

The expanded integration with on-line service Flickr will allow users Yahoo Messenger 9.0 to exchange photos and to keep them in the accounts on site Flickr. Besides structure Yahoo Messenger 9.0 includes the new mediaplayer providing an opportunity of reproduction of videoclips and viewing of images directly in a window the Internet-pager. Among other it is necessary to mention the increased area for accommodation of images, associated with names in the book of contacts, and also the expanded opportunities of voice dialogue.

Company Yahoo after competitors has updated a cursor of the search system having expanded its opportunities and having raised accuracy of given out results.

Till May 2004 Yahoo used technologies of competing company Google. However three and a half of a year back Yahoo has passed to application of own cursor constructed on the basis of operating time before got companies Overture and Inktomi. Firm technologies of struggle against a spam have been built in a search cursor thus for a filtration of superfluous references and search dust.

Present updating of cursor Yahoo Search became the most scale from the moment of refusal of development Google. The new version of Yahoo search engine provides more relevant results, and the mechanism of the unified search as informs The Wall Street Journal, allows to receive the information from sources of various types, for example, from collections of images, usual a web-sites and news resources. Besides in results of search data on forthcoming cultural and business events from a database of service Upcoming.org are added.

Company Yahoo also has improved built in mechanism Search Assist. After input of first three letters of inquiry on the screen there is a falling window with several words or the word-combinations containing typed symbols. The user can or choose a suitable variant by means of arrows of management of the cursor or mice, or to continue a set of inquiry.

However, marks Associated Press, innovations Yahoo generally are similar to functions which already offer competing search systems from Google and Microsoft. In opinion of some experts, having updated a cursor, Yahoo has only reduced backlog from contenders, not having presented thus of any innovative decisions.