Yahoo’s 2008 Year End Round-Up of Buzzworthy Searches

In addition to summarizing the most popular search trends overall, this year, Yahoo! dug deeper into the metrics of its vertical channels to get more granular information on what users searched for in 2008.  With the launch of Buzz-up for publishers in 2008, Yahoo! also ranked the most buzzed stories and most clicked-on stories. In addition, there's more Top 10 lists spotlighting different content around the network aimed at different usergroups including Yahoo! Food, Shine (women's channel), Tech, Green, Shopping, Travel, Games, Movies, Music, Local and Hot Jobs. Top 10 overall searche [...]

Filed in: Stats: Popularity, Stats: Search Behavior, Yahoo, Yahoo: Buzz


What Does Search Activity Say About The Election?

With less than a week to go until U.S. voters choose a new president, Yahoo is sharing what it knows about White House-related search activity. Here are some highlights from Yahoo's blog post today, which taps into data from Yahoo Buzz: During the past week, Barack Obama has been the subject of more than twice as many queries as John McCain. A week ago, there were six times as many searches about Cindy McCain compared to Michelle Obama. Geographically, on a queries per capita basis, John McCain is getting most of his search interest from Washington, DC, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, [...]

Filed in: Stats: Search Behavior, Yahoo: Buzz, Yahoo: Search


Is Yahoo’s Buzz A Buzz-Kill?

When Yahoo Buzz launched back in February of 2008, it was thought by many to be the next big player in the social news community space. This was largely due to the fact that if your content got the most "buzz" it had a chance to be featured on Yahoo.com, which can send millions of visitors to your site over a short period of time. Of course it didn’t take long for people to find themselves at Yahoo’s first major Buzz-kill. The program allowed only a small handful of around 300 sites into the program, so the motivation was not there for most users to participate in the site when t [...]

Filed in: Yahoo: Buzz


Yahoo Buzz Opens All Publishers & Web Sites

Yahoo Buzz is now open to all publishers and web sites. Yahoo announced that any Yahoo user can now "buzz up" any content from any publisher on the Web. Yahoo Buzz launched in February of this year as a Digg competitor. It was locked down to about 100 publishers and grew to over 400 since then. Yahoo said they have over 5 million users that have participated in the site. But now, any user can submit any web page on the web. Publishers can get their Yahoo Buzz buttons at http://buzz.yahoo.com/buttons and any user can submit content to Yahoo Buzz over at http://buzz.yahoo.com/submit. Se [...]

Filed in: Top News, Yahoo: Buzz


Despite Takeover Turmoil, Yahoo Not Rolling Over & Playing Dead

A curious thing is happening: Yahoo seems to be executing in the midst of the chaos of uncertainty surrounding its future. Speaking at an IAB event yesterday, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang [...]

Filed in: Microsoft & Yahoo Search Deal, Yahoo: Business Issues, Yahoo: Buzz, Yahoo: Employees, Yahoo: Flickr, Yahoo: General, Yahoo: News, Yahoo: Search, Yahoo: Video


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