An Open Approach to SearchGoogle has taught us that search is social, so finally Yahoo is following along by asking us to contribute. If more people own a piece of Yahoo Search then more people will use it.
Right now the only audience that matters is Yahoo Shareholders and Jerry and David have about 20 days to dazzle them into believing that they can keep the value of the stock above $30.00, or else they will be assimilated.
Yahoo today also announced Buzz, a user generated news aggregation section on the Yahoo home page. Everybody is already comparing it with Digg, but Digg represents the opinions of mainly 16 year old boys, maybe Yahoo's more mature audience will produce something of greater value. If they fail to generate considerable buzz in the next few weeks they will be assimilated.