Yahoo: My Web 2.0 beta

Yahoo recently unveiled a new version of its My Web product, My Web 2.0 beta (myweb2.search.yahoo.com) which it calls a 'social search engine' and also says that the product strongly embraces the concept of tagging. The product will currently be made available to a limited number of users.

My Web 2.0 users can manage their groups through a contact management feature. Queries launched into the personal indexes of a group of My Web 2.0 users deliver results based on Yahoo's new MyRank search technology, which was designed for personal Web searching.

While the first version was more about storing and organizing bookmarks, Version 2 is about sharing that information with others, thus combining web search with what one's community has tagged and shared. Like its predecessor, My Web 2.0 is a free service but it requires users to register with Yahoo and create an account. Another new feature incorporated is tagging, which lets users add descriptive keywords to saved pages and links. With this feature, users won't have to organize saved pages and links in folders and subfolders, according to Yahoo.