What do you do when one of your teams hits a milestone anniversary? Host a reality TV show!

The Food Network's "Dinner: Impossible" crew descended on our campus this week to pull off an episode that honored the anniversary of Yahoo! Search (specifically, the fifth year of our proprietary Yahoo! Search Technology). Celeb chef Robert Irvine arrived at our headquarters early in the morning to be given a seemingly impossible culinary challenge by Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang.

Since the show isn't slated to air until April, we can't tell you what we asked him to do, how many people he cooked for, and in how many hours, but let's just say those of you who searched for food items on Yahoo! last year played a big hand in it. And I can tell you that some serious innovation was definitely required!

And we didn't let Chef Robert do it alone. We lent him Yahoo! Search SVP Tuoc Luong and VP of Marketing Raj Gossain to help out in the kitchen. Two gourmands with a killer history with hot dogs. The best I can describe it as is sheer and utter mayhem -- frenetic chopping, mixing, grilling, slicing, flouring, deep-frying, shouting, accusing, burning... as the hours and minutes ticked away.

Did Chef Robert achieve his mission? Wild horses can't drag it out of us, but we do hope you'll tune in to the Food Network to find out. In the meantime, a hearty happy anniversary to the Yahoo! Search Team.

Photos from the production and ensuing party can be found here.

UPDATE: The "Yahoo! Search Scramble" episode will premiere on the Food Network on April 15th at 10pm ET/PT.

Nicki Dugan
Blog Editor

Photo from CeciliaC