FORT MYERS, FL–(Marketwire – Aug 4, 2011) – Yippy, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: YIPI) (www.yippy.com) (“Yippy” or the “Company”), providers of the world’s fastest, family friendly educational search engine and web portal, reports that it is leveraging Yahoo! Search BOSS(NASDAQ: YHOO) to enable innovations in Search. The combination of Yahoo! Search BOSS with Yippy’s active proprietary filtering processes will provide a powerful research environment for the K-12 market place.
“We have had the pleasure of working directly with Yahoo! Search BOSS product management through the process and feel we are taking the correct steps to further strengthen Yippy’s product offerings in the educational and family-friendly search businesses,” said Marc Bigelow, Chief Executive Officer, Yippy, Inc. “Our recent release of Yippy Gen2 and our new mobile site are potential game changers for education, the family PC and conservative minded smart phone users. Yahoo! Search BOSS will be our primary xml source for search which shall include Yippy’s active filtered search engine with expanded capabilities including News, Images and Maps from Yahoo as well.”
BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is Yahoo!’s open search and data services platform. The goal of BOSS is simple: to foster innovation in the search industry. Developers, start-ups, and large Internet companies can use BOSS to build web-scale search products that utilize Yahoo! Search technology and data.
About Yippy, Inc.
Based in Fort Myers, Florida, Yippy, Inc. (www.yippy.com) is a new economy technology company that develops technologies and application services environments for both consumer and commercial market segments.
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Contact: John Routhier | Investor Relations | Yippy, Inc. | 1-877-YIPPY01