Yahoo: Outside US
Japan Courts Order Removal Of Criminal Activity From Search As Privacy Violation
Suggesting that there may soon be a European-style “Right to be Forgotten” in Japan, two Japanese courts recently ordered Yahoo...
Yahoo’s Most Recent Homepage Updates Roll Out In Select European Countries & South Africa
Launched last February in the US, Yahoo has rolled out its new homepage in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the UK, Ireland and South Africa....
Yahoo Wins $2.75 Billion Appeal In Yellow Pages Case
Yahoo announced yesterday that it had prevailed in an appeal of a $2.75 judgment in Mexico obtained by former joint venture partners. Those...
Microsoft-Yahoo Ad Transition Wrapping Up In UK, Ireland & France
Yahoo search users in the UK, Ireland and France will start to see ads from Microsoft’s adCenter next week, as the two companies wrap up...
Under Threat Of Being Blocked Google, Facebook Comply With India’s New Internet Censorship Rules
After China and the US, India is the third largest internet market in the world. But India has philosophically aligned itself more with China in...
Bing Out Of “Betaphase” In Germany, Claims 10 Million Users
Bing is reportedly now out of betaphase in Deutschland. According to Microsoft, Bing has 10 million users or 20 percent of active internet...
Powered By Nokia, The New Yahoo Maps Goes Live
Former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz will be remembered mainly as a cost cutter who outsourced numerous functions to third parties. A partial list of...
Yahoo Search Data Retention Goes From 90 Days To 18 Months
As the privacy screws tighten in the US and Europe, Yahoo is doing something surprising: extending the time it holds on to personal search...
Italians Issue Another Dubious Anti-Search Decision
Earlier this year the Italian Communications Authority decided that YouTube was effectively a TV broadcaster and imposed the same rules and...
Google-Yahoo Deal Is Cleared In Japan
Japan’s Fair Trade Commission has given its approval to a partnership that allows Yahoo Japan to use Google search results. According to...
Japan FTC May Review Yahoo-Google Deal
The Wall Street Journal reports the largest online retailer in Japan, Rakuten has asked the Japan Fair Trade Commission to review the...
Yahoo UK & Ireland Directory Closing November 8, 2010
The Yahoo UK and Ireland directory will be closing November 8, 2010. Yahoo officially posted the details on in their help section. Yahoo closed...
Yahoo Offers Handwritten Searching In Taiwan, Hong Kong
If you thought instant search suggestions and results was fun, get a load of this: At Yahoo Taiwan and Yahoo Hong Kong, searchers can handwrite...
MSFT Will Challenge Google-Yahoo Japan Deal
In a move that should surprise no one, Microsoft says it will try to block the recently announced Google-Yahoo Japan partnership. In our story...
Yahoo Japan Switches To Google, Microsoft Calls It ‘Anti-Competitive’
AllThingsD reported that the Softbank majority owned Yahoo Japan has decided to replace Yahoo Search (soon Yahoo-Bing) with Google. Yahoo owns a...
Yahoo Closes European Directories, Says US Directory Is Safe
Yahoo has closed its web directories in four countries, and it seems no one noticed. It happened back in December, and Yahoo is now redirecting...
Yahoo Acquires The Foursquare-Like Koprol
Yahoo announced that it has acquired an Indonesian site called Koprol. Think of it as a kind of cross between Twitter and Foursquare, with more...
Yahoo, Samsung Announce Expanded Mobile Partnership
Yahoo announced this morning that its services will be pre-loaded on millions of Samsung phones worldwide. The new deal expands a relationship...
Yahoo Search: This Is The “Dark Time” But We’ll Be Back
Yesterday Yahoo hosted a press event called SearchSpeak that sought to dispel the “misconception,” in the words of new Search...
Microsoft Complies With EU Demand, First To Cut Data Retention To Six Months
Microsoft is the first of the major search engines to agree to the European Union’s demand that data retention be cut to six months. The...
