Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal On Track For Completion

Nov 19, 2009 at 6:53am ET by Greg Sterling

According to AllThingsD the MicroHoo search deal is nearing completion and "definitive agreement" status. Speculation that the deal was in trouble started happening when the two companies failed to meet their self-imposed October 27 deadline to finalize the complex agreement. However it appears the circumstances were just as reported in the parties' 8-K filing with the US Securities & Exchange Commission: The Letter Agreement specified that the parties would execute Definitive Agreements by October 27, 2009, but given the complex nature of the transaction, there remain some details to be [...]

Filed in: Legal: General, Microsoft: Bing, Yahoo: General, Yahoo: Partnerships, Yahoo: Search, Yahoo: Search Ads

Bing Gains Search Share In October: Experian Hitwise

Nov 11, 2009 at 2:42pm ET by Matt McGee

While Bing is happily rolling out new search features, Microsoft can also smile at the latest search engine market share report from Experian Hitwise. Google is still light years ahead of Yahoo, Bing, and Ask ... but Experian Hitwise shows Bing with a 7% increase during October, while both Google and Yahoo saw small drops in search share. Experian Hitwise also updates some stats related to search queries: "Longer search queries, averaging searches of five to more than eight words in length, increased 3 percent between October and September 2009. Searches of eight or more words inc [...]

Filed in: Google: Web Search, Microsoft: Bing, Stats: Hitwise, Stats: Popularity, Yahoo: Search

Yahoo Confirms Real-Time Search Test

Nov 3, 2009 at 6:54pm ET by Matt McGee

Yahoo has confirmed the recent rumors that it will test a real-time search feature in its search results. According to the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo will run a test "in the coming days" with OneRiot, a real-time search engine that focuses on links and content from Twitter and other social media sources. PaidContent reports that Yahoo will also be running real-time search tests with other players, too. (See Danny Sullivan's What Is Real Time Search? Definitions & Players for more background on possible partners.) Yahoo will conduct its real-time search testing on a limited set of qu [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: Real Time Search, Yahoo: Search

Google, Yahoo, Bing Bury GeoCities.com, But Some Zombie Sites Are Still Alive

Nov 2, 2009 at 3:01pm ET by Matt McGee

Although some GeoCities web sites are still online, all three major search engines have removed the domain from their search indices. As of this morning, a site:geocities.com search on Google, Yahoo, and Bing shows that geocities.com is dead and buried. Yahoo announced earlier this year that GeoCities -- a free web hosting service that it bought in 1999 -- would close this past Monday, October 26. But many users were still able to access GeoCities web sites last Tuesday. That's when Yahoo actually pulled the plug. Millions of pages and images, the "neighborhoods" they belonged t [...]

Filed in: Google: Web Search, Microsoft: Bing, Top News, Yahoo: Search

So What Are We To Make Of The “Ying” Search Delay?

Oct 29, 2009 at 1:35pm ET by Greg Sterling

I got two calls yesterday from people asking what I made of the Yahoo-Microsoft failure to meet their self-imposed search-deal deadline (October 27). I said it was probably just a case of needing more time to work through some of the details rather than a warning sign that the entire deal was in jeopardy. There's much at stake for both companies (somewhat less for Bing) in having committed to this deal. The market would punish both if the deal were to fall apart. It would be very hard for Yahoo to recover in the short term, having lost some of its best search people (many of whom are now wo [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Yahoo: General, Yahoo: Partnerships, Yahoo: Search

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