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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. 7, 2008 at 7:09am by Greg Sterling
iProspect: Blended Search Resulting In More Clicks On News, Images, And Video
Since the advent of "blended" or "universal search" last year across the major engines, there's been ongoing discussion and speculation about its impact on user behavior and search marketing. Gord Hotchkiss last year wrote extensively about how blended search (on Google) has in fact shifted the user focus from the...
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Feb. 26, 2008 at 12:01am by Chris Sherman
Yahoo To Announce "Search Monkey" Enhanced, Annotated Results At SMX West
Today, at the inaugural Search Marketing Expo West conference, Yahoo plans to unveil a project code-named "Search Monkey," a set of open-source tools that allow users and publishers to annotate and enhance search results associated with specific web sites. The new enhancements differ from Yahoo's "Shortcuts" that sometimes appear at...
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Aug. 21, 2007 at 8:36am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Changes UK Home Page Design
The LocallyType blog noticed that Yahoo has updated their Yahoo UK home page. The new design has more clean space around the search box. The Yahoo content and services don't truly begin until after the search box is displayed. I am told that the Yahoo UK home page looked more...
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Aug. 14, 2007 at 8:16am by Greg Sterling
Ask Jumps, Google Slips and Yahoo Leads American Customer Satisfaction Index for Search
For the first time, Yahoo has beaten Google in the annual University of Michigan American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The survey measures U.S. consumer satisfaction across a broad range of business and product categories including "e-business," which covers search. The survey asks a statistically representative sample of consumers to rate...
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May. 4, 2007 at 9:53am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo, Google Test New Search Results Pages
Both Yahoo and Google seem to be testing new search results pages. Karl Ribas found that Yahoo is testing a design that has a thin top blue bar above search results. The blue really doesn't remind me of Yahoo—Yahoo to me is about the purple and white colors. But the...
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Mar. 30, 2007 at 7:25am by Gord Hotchkiss
The Critical First Second & The Area of Greatest Promise
Last week on Just Behave, I talked about the importance of consideration sets in search; how we tend to slice off three or four top listings in our consideration set at the beginning of our interaction with the search results page. Today I want to talk about another concept,...
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Mar. 28, 2007 at 9:45am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Quick Links: The Official Word
Yahoo Quick Links are little links found beneath some of the search results at Yahoo Search. As an example, a search on barry schwartz at Yahoo Search brings up a Wikipedia entry for the other Barry Schwartz with Quick Links; it looks like this: I have been covering Yahoo Quick...
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Mar. 26, 2007 at 9:04am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Removes Directory Links From Individual Search Results
Yahoo Removes Category (Directory) Links From Under Search Results at Search Engine Roundtable reports that Yahoo has removed the links from the individual search listings to the Yahoo Directory....
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Mar. 23, 2007 at 11:57am by Gord Hotchkiss
Scanning Consideration Sets And Their Importance To Search Marketers
As humans, we have a limited capacity to consider our alternatives. Within our brains, there is a limited amount of shelf space available for us to temporarily put our options on to examine them and make our decision. We have cognitive limits to the amount of information we can...
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Feb. 5, 2007 at 1:46pm by Barry Schwartz
Searching For Super Bowl XLI
The Super Bowl is known by advertisers as one of the biggest marketing events of the year, but do search ads play a part of that? Reprise Media released this years Super Bowl Search Marketing Scorecard that explains that although there were improvements from last year, this year was still...
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Feb. 2, 2007 at 12:45pm by Gord Hotchkiss
Exclusive Interview: Larry Cornett, Yahoo Director Of User Experience Design
This week I caught up with Larry Cornett, the relatively new Director of User Experience Design at Yahoo and Kathryn Kelly, Director of PR for Yahoo! Search. Again, to set the stage for the interview, here are some high level findings from our eye tracking study that I'll be...
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Jan. 19, 2007 at 8:50am by Barry Schwartz
Search Engines' Test Beds
In Search of... Better Ways to Search at the Wall Street Journal goes through the different ways search engines like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Ask.com use "spin off" sites to test new features. We have reported about all these in the past, but the article offers a nice overview of...
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Jan. 18, 2007 at 9:40am by Greg Sterling
Will Paid Search Conquer The Mobile Internet?
To say there's a lot going on with mobile right now is to state something more than obvious. The carriers, the handset makers and the mobile content providers are in what amounts to a frenzy of competition and business development as they try and position themselves for what they see...
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Dec. 12, 2006 at 6:57am by Danny Sullivan
Google Copies Yahoo's IE7 Page; Originality War Breaks Out!
Google Blatantly Copies Yahoo!? from Yahoo's Jeremy Zawodny makes a pretty damning case against Google for blatantly ripping off Yahoo's Internet Explorer 7 promo copy. Yahoo offers a custom version of IE7 via a pitch page you'll see here. Google appears to have launched its own pitch page yesterday, one...
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Dec. 7, 2006 at 3:46pm by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Adds "More" DHTML Button On Search Results Page
Yahoo added a "more" button that seems to be a DHTML or CSS contextual drop down menu with more search options to the inner search pages. So if you do a search on gary price at Yahoo Search (he tipped me off to this), you will notice next to the...
