Yahoo! still alive...and Buzzing

Having decided to reject the Microsoft buyout offer, one of the Internet's leading and best known companies is set to launch a new service later this month. It's called "Buzz" - a tracker for news items picked by user voting and search trends.

Valleywag says the service is opening up small, about 100 or so publishers, until the Summer before making it available to all the sites. The service shall be introduced on February 26, a Tuesday.

Yahoo! "Buzz" seems to combine the web gem finding opportunities that goes alongside user search trends and user voting in services like Digg, Propeller, and Reddit.

According to Yahoo! spokeswoman Kelley Podboy:

Yahoo! Buzz is part of a new initiative we are testing to surface interesting content from around the Web. We will be sharing more details of the initiative in the coming weeks. Ongoing product innovation is important to Yahoo! And we continue to test various products and services to gain valuable feedback and insights from our users.


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