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
Yahoo Search Adds Google Profiles & Content To Search Filters
Oct 28, 2009 at 11:36am ET by Barry Schwartz
If you search on my name and location, [barry schwartz, ny], in Yahoo Search, you will see a Google Profile matches and other related content from Google within Yahoo's new search format.
Notice the Google filter on the left hand side:
When you click on the Google button, you are taken to results only found on Google.com:
Clearly, Google has a lot of profile and local data on people, which makes for a nice way for Yahoo to show better people results. But it basically provides a site command filter on the google.com domain, which is mostly how the other filters work.
I just [...]
Filed in: Yahoo: Search
Google’s Brin: “A Shame” That Yahoo Out Of Search
Oct 23, 2009 at 9:51am ET by Greg Sterling
Try as they might Yahoo is having a tough time convincing people that it's still "in search." On Yahoo's earnings call earlier this week CFO Tim Morse, who led the call because CEO Carol Bartz was ill, used her analogy to describe Yahoo's new way of positioning itself around search:
The next revolution isn’t with the algorithms that provide results, it’s in creating a better, more personally relevant search experience. This is where we’ll differentiate ourselves and compete vigorously without the billions required to keep up in the arms race that generating search results has become.
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Filed in: Google: Web Search, Microsoft: Bing, Top News, Yahoo: Business Issues, Yahoo: Search, Yahoo: User Interface
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