Yahoo! Names Dr. Qi Lu Senior Vice President of Engineering for Search
and Search Marketing

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 14, 2006--Yahoo! Inc.
(NASDAQ:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced the
appointment of Dr. Qi Lu to senior vice president of engineering for
search and search marketing. In his new role, Lu will lead development
efforts around Yahoo!'s Web search and monetization platforms. Lu will
report to Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President,
Farzad Nazem.



"Over the past few years, Qi has attracted some of the best and
brightest talent, amassing a world-class team of Search engineers. He
also has made tremendous progress with various Yahoo! services
including the development of the Yahoo! Search platform," said Nazem.
"He is a proven thought leader in Web search and he will continue to
be a valuable asset to the long-term growth goals of Yahoo!'s
engineering team."

Along with his contributions in building Yahoo!'s search platform, Lu
played a key role in the development of Yahoo!'s recently launched
social search products, including My Web 2.0 and Yahoo! Answers, as
well as the acquisition and integration of Flickr and Del.icio.us.
Additionally, he was instrumental in initiating the development of the
new Yahoo! Maps and Yahoo! Local services.

"Yahoo!'s Web search and search monetization efforts are a core focus
for the company and I'm eager to continue to leverage my experience in
these areas to explore ways to develop new search technology that will
ultimately benefit our users," said Lu. "I look forward to
contributing to the innovation and delivery of world-class services to
the global Internet community."

Previously, Lu was the vice president of engineering at Yahoo!,
responsible for the technology development of Yahoo!'s Search and
Marketplace business unit which includes the company's search,
e-commerce, and local listings of businesses and products.

Prior to joining Yahoo! in 1998, Lu was a Research Staff Member at IBM
Almaden Research Center. Before that, Lu worked at Carnegie Mellon
University as a Research Associate, and at Fudan University in China
as a faculty member.

Lu received his B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Fudan
University and his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon
University.

About Yahoo!

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online products and services essential to consumers' lives, and offers
a full range of tools and marketing solutions for businesses to
connect with Internet users around the world. Yahoo! is headquartered
in Sunnyvale, Calif.

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