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San Francisco (pte017/29.06.2005/10:54) - Technologists, web innovators and internet analysts say that the internet is already in its second phase: sharing. Rapidly developing and expanding internet services are making it increasingly possible for people all over the world to connect with each other.
"Sharing will define the next phase of the Web. It will be everywhere," said Jeff Weiner of Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com .
Flickr is just one of the new services offered by Yahoo. A web photo sharing service, it allows photos to be posted on the web, viewed and shared, and can also be tagged with geographic coordinates or be made into a communal database of images.
Executives and programmers at Yahoo believe that there's more to internet than file-sharing, which, among other things, violates copyright laws. However the internet industry's analysts even think sites that provide online games, desktop video, and citizen journalism (a type of freelance, unpaid journalism that has ordinary citizens reporting on all kinds of events) will give Hollywood something to think about. Not for reasons of piracy but as an interesting, challenging alternative.
Trying to catch up with rival service provider Google, Yahoo, has launched its My Web 2.0, the 'social search engine', a new version of the search engine that uses the collective power of web surfers to improve the quality of the results. This follows Google's announcement of its news service ranking system, which finds articles according to veracity and popularity.
Microsoft, Google and Yahoo are just three names of the competitors who are vying to maintain first place on the web with new and web-broadening services.
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