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Apr. 25, 2008 at 9:09am by Greg Sterling
YOS: Rewiring Yahoo From The Inside Out
Yahoo's relatively new CTO Ari Balogh expanded upon Yahoo's "open" initiatives in a keynote speech to the Web2.0 conference yesterday. There's a very extensive discussion, including a video of the keynote, on the TechCrunch site (additional coverage in Search Engine Journal). The SearchMonkey beta is the first step in executing...
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Apr. 22, 2008 at 12:36pm by Barry Schwartz
Earth Day Logos From The Search Engine Industry
As I posted earlier this morning, here is a quick compilation of logos for Earth Day from the search industry....
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Apr. 9, 2008 at 7:29am by Danny Sullivan
Yahoo To Acquire IndexTools Web Analytics Service
Google offers Google Analytics. Microsoft has its "Gatineau" or recently renamed Microsoft adCenter Analytics service in beta. So I suppose it was inevitable that Yahoo get in on the web analytics action. The company announced today that it is acquiring Tensa Kit, which produces the IndexTools analytics service....
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Mar. 31, 2008 at 9:54am by Greg Sterling
Yahoo Takes A "Shine" To Women 25 To 54
Perhaps the perfection of Yahoo's vertical strategy is its new blog-inspired site Shine. It's a broad mix of content from publisher partners such as Hearst Communications, Rodale, and Condé Nast. It also aggregates and links to third party content and is encouraging users to blog on the site. Unlike Yahoo...
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Jan. 11, 2008 at 10:05am by Greg Sterling
Yahoo Moves Metasearch Engine FareChase To Travel Homepage
TechCrunch noticed that Yahoo has moved the FareChase metasearch engine to the homepage of Yahoo Travel. TechCrunch attributes this move to the recent nearly $200 million acquistion of SideStep by competitor Kayak. I've always thought that FareChase was a very strong property that wasn't being fully leveraged by Yahoo. Yahoo...
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Jan. 3, 2008 at 10:12am by Danny Sullivan
Goodbye, Yahoo Picks
Children, gather 'round. When I was a boy, we didn't have Digg. We didn't have Slashdot. When we wanted a big traffic rush, we had to walk eight miles in the snow to Yahoo Picks -- Yahoo Picks Of The Week & Picks Of The Day -- and we liked...
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Nov. 22, 2007 at 8:41am by Danny Sullivan
Thanksgiving Search Engine Logos & Off For The Day
Search Engine Land is taking the Thanksgiving holiday off, and best wishes to all those celebrating today. We'll be back with regular coverage tomorrow. Search engines are celebrating with special logos like those above. See the full-sized versions (including Yahoo's animated one) and more special search logos in Search...
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Nov. 5, 2007 at 9:10am by Barry Schwartz
Check Out My Yahoo Kickstart Profile & Get Yours
Today, Yahoo launched their new social networking site geared towards college students and alumni named Kickstart. We first wrote about it over here, where we described that this service will help college students looking for jobs connect with alumni who already have jobs and might be hiring. There is more...
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Oct. 31, 2007 at 7:01am by Danny Sullivan
Google, Yahoo, Ask.com Do Halloween Logos & Themes
Google doesn't always do special logos for every holiday, but in the case of Halloween, it's pretty consistent. Up today on the Google home page is the ninth consecutive Halloween logo it has run since 1999. Below, a look back at the past years, as well as this year's...
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Sep. 27, 2007 at 11:22am by Danny Sullivan
Yahoo Podcasts To Close; The Sorry State Of Podcast Search
Sigh. As someone who produces a podcast -- and who has enjoyed searching for podcasts when going on roadtrips -- I don't get why podcast search isn't more supported by the major search engines. Yahoo Podcasts, rolled out with promise back in October 2005, now sports a message at the...
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Sep. 17, 2007 at 6:09pm by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Buys Zimbra For $350 Million
Yahoo announced that they have agreed to buy Zimbra, an open source email, calendar and office applications software company, for $350 million. Of course, Google and Microsoft both have online/offline office suite applications. This acquisition may help Yahoo compete in that space....
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Aug. 31, 2007 at 9:58am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Gives College Graduates A "Kickstart" With Social Job Networking Site
Yahoo's new social job network: Kickstart from News.com has an excellent review of Yahoo's new social networking job site named Kickstart. The site is currently is currently a concept, which Yahoo wants to turn into a reality. The concept is to use social features to connect college alumni working at...
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Jun. 12, 2007 at 3:10pm by Greg Sterling
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Intel & Others Join Greener Computing Effort
Google announced that it and many other computer and Internet heavyweights have joined together in the global Climate Savers computing initiative launched by the World Wildlife Federation. The idea is to improve the efficiency of computer hardware and data centers so that they require less power and give off less...
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May. 28, 2007 at 8:39am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Testing Linking To Non-Yahoo Properties On Home Page
Yahoo Experiments With Non-Yahoo Links On Home Page from Techcrunch reports that Yahoo is testing linking to non-Yahoo properties directly from their home page. Typically, the only non-Yahoo links from their home page are the advertisements. On May 24th, Yahoo linked to this Crunchgear article directly in the "Featured" news...
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May. 24, 2007 at 10:12am by Greg Sterling
Google Hot Trends, Yahoo Buzz Index: Tracking Tools For Traditional Marketing
Search Engine Journal compares Google's recently introduced "Hot Trends" database with the Yahoo Buzz Index. (Barry Schwartz wrote extensively about Hot Trends previously.) These tools, while fun and interesting, are also potentially important as business intelligence and data mining tools and increasingly useful to track the efficacy of offline marketing....
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May. 9, 2007 at 9:27am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo To Close Yahoo Auctions
Yahoo has announced that they will be closing Yahoo Auctions in the United States and Canada as of June 16, 2007. Yahoo Auctions will continue in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. Clearly, Yahoo has thrown in the towel when it comes to fighting eBay in the auction space, Instead, the...
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May. 3, 2007 at 1:15pm by Christine Churchill
Free Web Design Tools From The Big Three: SEO Friendly Or Not?
Today's article is a follow-up on our earlier review in which I looked at the capabilities and usability of the big three search engines' free site creation tools. The focus was on how easy each software product was for a non-technical person to master. The three tools reviewed were...
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Mar. 26, 2007 at 7:27am by Greg Sterling
Yahoo Releases Greatly Simplified "SiteBuilder" Tool
How many U.S. small businesses have websites? Is it 30%, 40%, 50%? Answering that question gets quickly into debates over the definition of a "website." For example, is a "landing page" or a "profile page" a website? Do the small business data provided by InfoUSA, Axciom, Localeze, TruelLocal (and now...
