Yahoo Search: This Is The “Dark Time” But We’ll Be Back
Feb 11, 2010 at 9:11am ET by Greg Sterling
Yesterday Yahoo hosted a press event called SearchSpeak that sought to dispel the "misconception," in the words of new Search Products SVP Shashi Seth, that Yahoo was no longer investing in search. As Seth took the stage to begin his presentation the power in the room went out. Not a very auspicious start to the day, it seemed symbolic of Yahoo's new difficulties and challenges in search.
Attempting to generate enthusiasm, he pressed on without slides: despite the popular misconception, Yahoo is not out of search, echoing statements made by CEO Carol Bartz and others on past company earning [...]
Filed in: Top News, Yahoo: Business Issues, Yahoo: Employees, Yahoo: General, Yahoo: Maps & Local, Yahoo: Outside US, Yahoo: Search Monkey, Yahoo: Shortcuts
Yahoo Goes Live With New Search Format
Sep 22, 2009 at 11:03am ET by Greg Sterling
Yahoo has now gone live with its new search format. There's nothing radical or "game changing." However, there are some nice upgrades and improvements. Most prominently, it features a new left column that allows users to filter results by Search Monkey content providers or refine by related concepts. It also features more prominent placement for Search Pad and an expansion of Search Assist. Yahoo says it has also improved image and video search and says speed and performance are better across the board.
Yahoo previewed these new features previously and Danny discussed them at some length in [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Top News, Yahoo: Search, Yahoo: Search Monkey, Yahoo: User Interface
Yahoo Adds Products, Businesses, Events, Discussions & News To SearchMonkey
Aug 28, 2009 at 1:37pm ET by Barry Schwartz
The Yahoo Search Blog announced the expansion of the SearchMonkey platform to not only include richer search results for categories such as Video, Documents, and Games but now also in the categories of Products, Local Businesses, Event, Discussions, or News. Here are some example search results that show off some of these features:
We have covered Yahoo SearchMonkey extensively here, for past articles see the Search Monkey category.
Postscript From Danny Sullivan: An important change is that those making use of Yahoo's paid inclusion programs are now guaranteed rich res [...]
Filed in: Yahoo: Search, Yahoo: Search Monkey
Can Yahoo Really Compete In Search By “Owning The Interface”?
Aug 3, 2009 at 11:53am ET by Greg Sterling
During the Yahoo-Microsoft conference call with CEOs Bartz and Ballmer and subsequent discussion with Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi and Yahoo's Hilary Schneider we heard repeatedly that although the two engines would share a single index and Microsoft would incorporate elements of Yahoo Search (e.g., Search Monkey) into Bing, Yahoo would continue to be different and vital in search.
Freed from the cost ($425 million reportedly) and ongoing demands of the back end, it would "innovate" around the interface and search user experience.
Many people in the industry were skeptical and  shrugged it o [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: General, Yahoo: Business Issues, Yahoo: Employees, Yahoo: Search, Yahoo: Search Monkey, Yahoo: User Interface
What Site Owners, Web Developers & SEOs Should Know About The Yahoo Microsoft Deal
Jul 30, 2009 at 1:45pm ET by Vanessa Fox
By now, everyone has read all about the news that Yahoo is replacing its search index with Microsoft's Bing. In a way, it's a great story of complete reversal, as in 2002, Microsoft didn't have its own index and instead used Inktomi. Late that year, Yahoo! acquired Inktomi, which spurred Microsoft to start building its own search index to avoid having a search supplier owned by a major competitor. Now Yahoo is ditching its index (including all of the technology it acquired with Inktomi) to use the very index it motivated Microsoft to build.
We've read about what this means for advertisers ( [...]
Filed in: Microsoft & Yahoo Search Deal, Microsoft: Bing, SEO - Search Engine Optimization, Top News, Yahoo: APIs, Yahoo: Search Monkey, Yahoo: Site Explorer
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