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Google has gained market share for the second month in a row, while Yahoo continues to bleed. Bing has solidified its number two spot and distanced itself from Yahoo, though mostly because Yahoo is continuing to fall and not because Bing is gaining.
Google finished January with a 66.2 percent market share, as define... |
10 February 2012
10:22 GMT |
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The new year has started and the celebrations are over. Once again, as always, people are looking for a fresh start and the rather arbitrary date coinciding with the new year is as good as any. New year resolutions are quite a 'tradition' around the world and it seems that one of the biggest things people/Y... |
3 January 2012
18:11 GMT |
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Google continues to dominate the US search market, that's not news to anyone. There weren't any big changes in the rankings or market share of the big players in the last month either.However, one interesting thing did transpire in November, Bing is very, very close to overtaking Yahoo and becoming the seco... |
17 December 2011
08:21 GMT |
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Yahoo is finally giving its BOSS service an upgrade. After its fate was in question for many months, due to the switch to Bing for search results, it seems that Yahoo is determined to improve its custom search service.Yahoo BOSS, which stands for Build Your Own Search Service, is now introducing several new features ... |
7 December 2011
11:56 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced a couple of new features for its image search engine. They're not game changers, but they should prove useful in some cases. Users can now share images they find via Yahoo Search with their Twitter or Facebook friends.
The image results page also gets infinite scrolling, there are no more pa... |
6 December 2011
08:36 GMT |
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Continuing a trend among search engines of late, Yahoo has now added a dedicated Recipe search tab and is also including recipe results in the main results page for some queries.
The new tab, as is pretty self-evident, will enable users find the perfect meal for any time of the day or to try something different.
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16 November 2011
09:04 GMT |
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It took almost two years, but Yahoo has finally switched all of its search sites over to Bing, with the sole exception of South Korea. What's more, all search partners that had integrated Yahoo Search features are being powered by Bing as well.Yahoo made the most progress, in terms of the number of countries swi... |
19 October 2011
09:11 GMT |
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Yahoo has revealed its financial results for the third quarter of 2011. The company reported both a drop in revenue and a drop in profits, but the numbers were higher than analyst expectations, resulting in a slight uptick in share price.Otherwise, there's not much else to celebrate, revenue continues to fall, t... |
19 October 2011
07:26 GMT |
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Certain Yahoo searches will pop up results that instead of displaying the official pages of the product, advertise downloads that install charity applications.Sun Belt blog informed us this morning of this so I decided to take a look for myself.If we try to search for a "TeamViewer download" page, the first thing tha... |
30 September 2011
07:23 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced a revamped search results page, with a few design tweaks and improvements, aiming for a cleaner page and simpler navigation. The new design is being rolled out to all users.
The redesign covers the main search page, but also dedicated verticals such as Sports or News. The Image Search has been ... |
16 September 2011
09:20 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced that it has transitioned more of its local search properties over to Bing, switching from its own search engine technology to Microsoft's. This is another step in a big agreement between Yahoo and Microsoft for Bing to power Yahoo Search.The two companies have reached a deal a couple of years... |
23 July 2011
06:11 GMT |
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People may not be taking Yahoo too seriously when it comes to search, but even without an actual search engine, it still has a lot of people using it and a lot of data flowing through its pipes.
Now, you can check out some of that data and the trends, just in case you wanted to see what someone not using Google w... |
1 July 2011
08:17 GMT |
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Yahoo may not be powering its own searches anymore, but it's still in the web search game and today it's debuting an interesting new search category, apps. Along with the regular search categories like Images, News and so on, there is now Apps. This section enables you to search for and discover new applica... |
16 June 2011
10:11 GMT |
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The search market data for April for the US is out and it paints a familiar picture. Both Google and Yahoo lost a bit of market share, while Bing continued its slow ascent. Google still has a very solid advantage and dominates with 65.4 percent of the market share. However, April was the first month that Microso... |
13 May 2011
12:00 GMT |
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Yahoo may be officially out of the search game, but it's not giving up on serving its users a great search experience. Evidence to that is the new Search Direct box which is a mixture of the existing Search Assist and Google Instant. Yahoo says it's something different though, the first big breakthrough of ... |
24 March 2011
03:30 GMT |
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Yahoo has started testing a new search feature that surfaces answers and results as you type based on search suggestions. The feature is not called "Yahoo Instant" even though there are several big similarities between Google Instant and the new "Rich Search Assist." "Here at Yahoo!, we know that sometimes search is ... |
18 November 2010
06:27 GMT |
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Yahoo introduced an interesting new tool for search dubbed Yahoo Clues. While the company hasn't been focusing on search very much lately, the tool can be compared to Google Trends and especially to Google Insights for Search. Yahoo Clues enables you to see how popular are certain queries and even compare two se... |
17 November 2010
10:32 GMT |
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The latest comScore search market numbers have been released and, while the numbers themselves are anything but exciting, Yahoo is feeling cheated out because of Google Instant so the analytics company felt it needed to explain how it deals with the new Google. "Looking at comScore’s report, it appears to me th... |
14 October 2010
03:59 GMT |
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According to the latest search market numbers, Google is once again gaining market share, mostly at the expense of Yahoo. In recent months, Google had seen a slow decline while Yahoo and Bing were picking up steam. However, the comScore report for September in the US, shows that Google is on the rise, gaining 0.7 per... |
13 October 2010
10:41 GMT |
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Yahoo recently unveiled an Image Search redesign which included a couple of interesting new features like photo slideshows. Now Yahoo is showcasing yet another interesting feature, thanks to its deep partnership with Facebook, which adds public Facebook photo albums from your friends to the search results. "[W]e now ... |
13 October 2010
04:49 GMT |
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Yahoo's strategy in search is to deliver a better experience rather than better search results, especially since it outsourced the actual search part to Microsoft. Along these lines, it unveiled a few new search features which it says should enable people to do the things they intended faster. In the main sear... |
7 October 2010
05:21 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced some big plans to get back in the game. While it is a little short on details, it's not lacking in ambition. One of the first concrete steps towards a revamped Yahoo is a new Search page which is coming in the near-term. "This fall, we’re making one of our most significant updates to Ya... |
17 September 2010
06:51 GMT |
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Yahoo hasn't had the best image lately. The company is seen as slow and out of touch with the latest developments. Yahoo is content with its large user base and existing products. The company is looking to change that perception and has come up with a three-year plan to overhaul Yahoo.So far, the only tangible c... |
16 September 2010
16:47 GMT |
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According to the latest Nielsen numbers, Bing has overtaken Yahoo to become the number two search engine in the US. According to the metrics company, Bing grabbed 13.9 percent of the search market in August, compared to Yahoo's 13.1 percent, the first time the two search engines switched positions. "For the firs... |
14 September 2010
12:08 GMT |
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Yahoo Search has introduced a rather useful feature for those using Chinese characters. Yahoo Taiwan and Yahoo Hong Kong now allow users to hand write complex characters and then have Yahoo recognize the best match for them.This should make searching using Chinese characters significantly simpler since users don... |
8 September 2010
16:23 GMT |
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It's done, Yahoo has completed the switch to Bing technology to power its searches in the US and Canada. The deal announced a year ago has come to fruition as all Yahoo searches in the two countries now wear the 'Powered by Bing" logo. "First let me say, wow, what a week! As I hope everyone saw our post fro... |
24 August 2010
13:13 GMT |
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Yahoo may be using Bing to power its search engine, but it’s not giving up on search altogether. In fact, probably due to the fact that it’s been losing market share for many months now, Yahoo is working on weaving search into more of its many web properties. One section where search slits in nicely is Ya... |
7 August 2010
05:48 GMT |
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Yahoo plans to start serving organic and paid search results Powered by Bing on Yahoo Search. Already, Yahoo says, up to 25 percent of its search results in the US are being served by Bing. So far, testing has gone smooth and the merger is on track. Live testing is one of the final stages and Yahoo hopes to complete ... |
21 July 2010
10:47 GMT |
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Yahoo has revealed its financial results for the second quarter of 2010. Overall, the numbers were less than exiting with flat revenue, but higher income. Display advertising, always a strong point of Yahoo, was up for this quarter, but only enough to compensate for a decline in search ad revenue. “Revenue was ... |
21 July 2010
03:25 GMT |
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Yahoo will start providing Bing-powered search results for a small portion of the traffic this month. This is the next phase in the ‘merger’ of the two search engines which is slated to be complete by the holidays. Yahoo has already been testing the Bing integration offline, in a controlled environment, b... |
16 July 2010
06:27 GMT |
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Search suggestions are a very helpful tool and all major search engines have an implementation. Yahoo is now introducing an interesting twist as its suggestions will be much more relevant to the moment the search is conducted. The suggestions will now be near real-time and the emphasis will be on short term relevancy... |
3 July 2010
05:22 GMT |
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Yahoo is still trying to find its ‘essence’ and one thing is for sure, search isn’t it. The company has said as much with CEO Carol Bartz going as far as claiming that Yahoo was never about search. That’s a bit of history rewriting, but one thing’s for sure, the company is searching for ... |
8 June 2010
09:57 GMT |
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Yahoo hasn’t given up on the search business, from what the company is saying, just on the search engine technology. And to show that these aren’t just words, it keeps on unveiling new features and improvements for its search properties. It has now introduced a couple of new features that may prove intere... |
28 May 2010
11:11 GMT |
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Football fans know this already, the 2010 World Cup is just around the corner. The excitement around the greatest sporting event on Earth is building up, but, as usual with so many matches, it will be hard to keep up with all the action. Fortunately, the people at Yahoo have though about the ones stuck at work or at ... |
12 May 2010
08:14 GMT |
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Yahoo has posted some better-than-expected results for the first quarter of 2010. While revenue stayed flat, income was more than double mostly due to several one-time deals. Money from Microsoft has started pouring in and display ads, arguably Yahoo’s strong suit, have seen a 20-percent uptake in the first thr... |
22 April 2010
07:06 GMT |
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Yahoo is introducing some new search tools for a couple of its sites in a move to reverse or at least stop the bleeding-search-users trend that has been plaguing it for many months now. Who knows if it will work, but it can't hurt either and the new tools look interesting enough. The latest Yahoo search properti... |
2 April 2010
08:39 GMT |
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The search market has been remarkably stable in the US and worldwide for the past few months and the trends are keeping steady. Google dominates and slowly inches forward or manages to maintain its market share, while Microsoft's Bing nibbles away at Yahoo Search. Nine months after launch, according to comScore&... |
10 March 2010
05:33 GMT |
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With the Microsoft - Yahoo deal getting the go-ahead from the US and the EU, both companies are now looking at the next stage of the process. While the deal still needs approval from some smaller markets, the major hurdles are gone. What this means is that users are going to start seeing the actual effects of the sea... |
19 February 2010
05:56 GMT |
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Yahoo is taking the first step in the integration of its services with those of Arab portal Maktoob which it acquired last summer. Yahoo Search is now live on Maktoob.com and the entire site got a Yahoo (read 'purple') make-over. There is also a dedicated Yahoo Search page that is more spartan than th... |
28 January 2010
06:46 GMT |
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Yahoo is definitely de-emphasizing its search engine, but it's not giving up on search or the ad money it brings. With the Microsoft deal still in the air, Yahoo has finally updated its search advertising offering with two tools which should be greatly appreciated by the advertisers even though there is a sense... |
15 January 2010
04:28 GMT |
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It's been a few months since the announcement of the Yahoo - Microsoft search deal, but it's still far from being completed and there is still a lot of confusion about how everything will slot in. One thing that has been causing developers a lot of headache is the fate of the popular search API Yahoo BOSS.... |
8 January 2010
09:37 GMT |
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While Google is making strides in real-time search, Yahoo has to sit back and work mostly on the front end and the user experience, as the underlying technology is pretty much a dead end facing an imminent replacement once the Microsoft deal gets underway. But it doesn't mean that there's nothing to show, ... |
8 December 2009
10:41 GMT |
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Yahoo doesn't really know whether it is a search company or not, but it's definitely not giving up entirely on this front. With all the focus on the interface and the way the search engine presents the answers, Yahoo has been steadily introducing new features and updates. Now the company has introduced an ... |
25 November 2009
03:35 GMT |
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Google music has been getting a lot of attention lately thanks to its brand-new music search features. So much so that Yahoo felt the need to underline that it had had somewhat similar features for a while now. In fact, its offering may actually be better than Google's, it certainly looks better, but that didn&#... |
6 November 2009
06:10 GMT |
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The first changes resulting from the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal signed earlier this summer are already being felt and one of Yahoo's more controversial features has been dropped and will be completely gone at the end of this year. Paid Inclusions allowed web sites to pay a fee to be included in the Yahoo search... |
16 October 2009
06:44 GMT |
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With the pending search deal between Yahoo and Microsoft many have been wondering what exactly are Yahoo's plans for its search business. With the company's own CEO now claiming that Yahoo not only isn't a search company but it has never actually been one, the worries seemed justified. Yahoo knows this... |
7 October 2009
09:58 GMT |
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Hot on the trails of the new homepage, Yahoo has just launched a new search results page to bring it up to date design-wise and also prepare for the Bing merger. But the changes aren't just cosmetic; Yahoo actually upgraded the search experience with some interesting features and design choices. The new search p... |
23 September 2009
05:29 GMT |
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The global search market continues to soar, having grown 41 percent in the past year. In July 2009, Internet users all over the world conducted more than 113 billion searches, a big rise over the 80 billion in July last year. While most search engines saw some growth, Google stood out with an impressive 58 percent in... |
1 September 2009
04:03 GMT |
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Yahoo Search has already started to be replaced on some Yahoo properties but not with Bing as one might expect but with Google. British Telecom's portal for its broadband subscribers, created in collaboration with Yahoo, has decided to switch to Google to power the search portion of the site. The rest of the ser... |
28 August 2009
06:04 GMT |
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Yahoo has been on a roll lately, releasing a new version of its popular instant messenger, Yahoo Messenger 10, adding some features to the biggest web mail service in the world, Yahoo Mail, and redesigning its search results page. But it’s not done yet, as Yahoo has announced another new feature, this time to i... |
27 August 2009
05:52 GMT |
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