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

Yahoo’s New Homepage Gets Personal, Tests Search Filters

Jul 21, 2009 at 8:27am ET by Greg Sterling

When I heard about the call with Yahoo yesterday, which was to feature "a significant announcement," I thought: "Bing, here it is." When it turned out the call was about a formal announcement of the new Yahoo homepage I was disappointed; it seemed anti-climactic. The existence of a forthcoming Yahoo homepage redesign has been known for months and screenshots of earlier versions have been seen previously in several places online. However, the new Yahoo homepage, which launches around 4:30 Eastern today, turns out to be both interesting and practical. The embargo was broken yesterday so immed [...]

Filed in: Top News, Yahoo: General, Yahoo: Search, Yahoo: Search Monkey, Yahoo: User Interface

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