Of course, Yang succeeded also because his search system was highly innovative. He was the first to turn a search engine into a medium, so that it became an exchange platform in its own right, and as a result-in cooperation with many traditional media, computer companies, and information industry firms-Yahoo could became a portal for all kinds of information.
此外，楊致遠研發的搜索系統也有足夠的原創性，再加上是第一個把搜尋引擎變成媒體，讓自己成為一個交流的平台，與更多傳統媒體、電腦公司、通訊業者合作成為一個所有資訊的入口網站，更奠定了雅虎邁向成功的契機。