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July 14, 2003. The center in Bangalore is the first research and development (R&D) center set up outside the U.S. by Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo, and is expected to have 150 engineers by the end of next year. Some product development work has already begun at the center.

The Bangalore center is to focus on technology and product development in areas like data mining and data engineering for handling terabytes of data, e-commerce applications, search algorithms to improve the relevancy of the Yahoo search engine, enhancing the HotJobs platform for online recruitment, network services, and enterprise portal software development, according to Bharat Vijay, chief operating officer of the center.

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