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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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Rounding up the set of updated products, Yahoo has just launched, perhaps surprisingly, an improved search experience with a bunch of new features and design tweaks to show that, not only Yahoo Search isn't dead, it's actually getting some serious development focus. Still, some of the changes were most like... |
25 August 2009
12:08 GMT |
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Google enjoys a solid lead in the search market with a roughly 60-percent share. While no one doubts that Google offers one of the best experiences and the best products, many wonder if that alone justifies the big gap between its followers Yahoo Search and Microsoft's Bing or if it's just the force of habi... |
18 August 2009
11:07 GMT |
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The search market is going to go through some very big transformations as the Yahoo-Microsoft deal unfolds but for the time being little has changed from the users' perspective. So it's no surprise that the July numbers for search market share haven't changed that much from the previous month though th... |
17 August 2009
08:41 GMT |
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Google has enjoyed a very comfortable lead in the search market for many years now and this isn't going to change anytime soon, even with the new Microsoft-Yahoo alliance. But, while market share numbers may look daunting, there are other metrics that look a lot more optimistic for the competitors. ComScore has ... |
15 August 2009
05:03 GMT |
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Twitter may have started out as a way to share “what you are doing” with your friends but increasingly it’s used as a way to spread news and to keep up with events faster than with any other channel. This makes its search engine one of its most valuable assets but Twitter search has been constantly ... |
14 August 2009
05:43 GMT |
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After years of talks it looks like a Microsoft-Yahoo deal may be on its final stretch, with several reports claiming an announcement could come in as soon as tomorrow. The papers haven't apparently been signed yet but there aren't many things that could change the course now. The deal is smaller than some o... |
29 July 2009
02:48 GMT |
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Yahoo may be on the brink of selling its Search business or at least “renting” it to Microsoft but this hasn't stopped development, with new features still coming in. And, if you're planning a vacation this summer or you’re just stuck at home, this one is for you. Yahoo Image Search has ro... |
27 July 2009
04:18 GMT |
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The fact that Yahoo is working on a new homepage design hasn't been news for almost a year now, as it was announced and previewed in September 2008. Since then a few users have been getting the revamped page as part of the testing phase before it was ready to roll out for the masses. And now, finally, the day ha... |
21 July 2009
03:11 GMT |
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Rumors are flying again with an “imminent” deal between Yahoo and Microsoft after several months of relative calm. The talks between the two companies are believed to be close to finalizing, with top Microsoft executives flying to Yahoo's headquarters in Silicon Valley and a deal announcement coming ... |
17 July 2009
04:31 GMT |
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It's been more than a month since Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, went live, but how successful has it been? The numbers vary with the different sources, but the overall trend is positive. And, in fact, new data from StatCounter shows Bing passing Yahoo! Search in the US for the second time since being... |
10 July 2009
11:28 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced the launch of a new note-taking feature for its search engine. Dubbed Search Pad, it will roll out today and its aim is to provide users with a simple tool to remember and organize their searches so they can go back to them at a later date. The feature was first announced in February but it won�... |
7 July 2009
02:48 GMT |
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There is no doubt Michael's Jackson's death was a worldwide event, and the sheer number of people looking for information about the news or the pop superstar exceeded many previous records. This was apparent yesterday, as many sites and services showed the strains of the doubling or tripling in traffic. New... |
27 June 2009
03:48 GMT |
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Yahoo has announced its plans to release an open-source version of its Hadoop implementation, called Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop, the software it uses as a backbone for many of its products. Hadoop is an open-source framework based on Java and used for distributed computing for large-scale businesses. It is based o... |
11 June 2009
06:15 GMT |
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We reported earlier that Bing, Microsoft's new search engine, was having a really successful launch, becoming the number two search engine in the US and easily going passed Yahoo. It now looks like the spike was very short lived and Bing has gone down to its previous levels, Yahoo having nothing to fear just yet... |
9 June 2009
07:30 GMT |
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Yahoo isn't doing very well with its search engine business and it even had several attempts to get rid of it in the past, but it still is the number two search engine in the world, with a comfortable lead over Microsoft. And apparently it's not rushing to sign a deal with the software giant, according to Y... |
4 June 2009
10:28 GMT |
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Yahoo! announced that it would enable as default some SearchMonkey applications into its search results. Earlier this year the Sunnyvale company launched SearchMonkey, an open platform that enables web developers to enhance the Yahoo! Search experience for end-users by creating applications that use structured data t... |
2 August 2008
08:42 GMT |
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