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. [...]

Filed in: Google: Web Search, Microsoft: Bing, Top News, Yahoo: Business Issues, Yahoo: Search, Yahoo: User Interface

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

Do A Google Search From Yahoo.com? Maybe…

Sep 17, 2009 at 1:08am ET by Matt McGee

Is it possible that, say a couple years from now, you might visit Yahoo.com and its Bing-powered search engine, but actually search Google, instead? It seems so. PaidContent reports on Yahoo's appearance Wednesday at the 2009 Deutsche Bank Technology Conference, where Burke Colligan, a senior director for Yahoo Front Doors -- the company's user experience group -- said it's possible the company may someday allow Yahoo users the choice to search a different search engine from the Yahoo home page. "Right now, we're not doing that but long-term that may not be out of the question. We want t [...]

Filed in: Google: Web Search, Microsoft: Bing, Yahoo: Search, Yahoo: User Interface

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

Yahoo Testing New Search Results Layout

Aug 2, 2009 at 7:02pm ET by Matt McGee

A sign of things to come, perhaps? Based on this screenshot posted today on Flickr, Yahoo appears to be testing a new layout for its search results pages. It looks very much like the new Yahoo homepage that launched a couple weeks ago, which suggests this may be soon become the default layout for Yahoo's search results pages. The Yahoo logo, which appears in red and on the right side of the current search results page, is in purple and moved to the left here. The SearchPad feature is also moved from right to left. This new layout also mimics Bing slightly, with the list of "Related Con [...]

Filed in: Yahoo: Search, Yahoo: User Interface

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