DuckDuckGo’s focus on privacy-minded users pushes it past 100 million searches in a single day
Although it’s a long way from being a Google competitor, DuckDuckGo’s business model may serve as a playbook for new search engines.
Topic: OneSearch
OneSearch, Verizon Media’s new search engine, sounds awfully familiar
The privacy-focused search engine serves contextual ads and doesn’t use cookies for tracking.
Yahoo: We’re Moving From Web Of Pages To Web Of Objects
Yahoo held a search event today in San Francisco at which the company connected the dots among a number of search initiatives that it has rolled out over the past couple of years: Search Assist, BOSS, Search Monkey, Search Pad and oneSearch. There was no announcement but a provocative reframing of all these efforts. The […]
Yahoo Reorganizes, Rebrands Mobile Offerings As “Yahoo Mobile”
In Barcelona at the GSMA Mobile World Congress event, which has been mostly about new handsets so far, Yahoo announced what it’s calling “Yahoo Mobile.” I haven’t yet been able to talk to anyone at Yahoo about this, but it appears to be mostly a rebranding and repackaging of existing Yahoo mobile assets, with a […]
Yahoo Introduces Wide Range Of Mobile Search Improvements
Yahoo made a range of mobile search-related announcements today at CTIA. At a high level, these include: Open oneSearch (Search Monkey for mobile), Search Assist for mobile, voice-enabled oneSearch, and “idle screen” search.
Yahoo oneSearch To Power Wireless Carrier Portals In Latin America
Even as attention has been focused on Google’s 700 MHz spectrum bid and its Android mobile platform, Yahoo has been aggressively doing business development with mobile operators and handset makers around the world, in Asia, Europe, and now Latin America. This morning Yahoo announced that it had inked another major wireless distribution deal with America […]
Yahoo’s Big Asian Mobile Push
Yahoo put out a dizzying slew of press releases today aimed at highlighting its carrier partnerships and what it claims is its mobile leadership position. The core of these releases is the announcement of nine new Asian mobile operators, adding to the company’s other Asian carrier relationships. Yahoo’s oneSearch will provide mobile search for these […]
Yahoo Go Comes Out Of Beta With Big Global Push
Yahoo Go 2.0 and related mobile oneSearch offerings are coming out of beta this Friday and going into “general availability” in the U.S. While consumers pay no attention to these distinctions — alpha, beta, gamma and so on — it signals Yahoo’s confidence in the product. Simultaneously, nation-specific versions of Go will be released in […]
Yahoo Rolls Out oneSearch In Canada And Europe
Yahoo isn’t waiting for consumers to download its mobile application Go or for handset makers to distribute it. The company is stepping up its push to make Go’s central feature, oneSearch, available via any Web-enabled mobile phone. This evening Yahoo oneSearch, which launched in the U.S. in March, replaces existing Yahoo mobile search in five […]
Google Upgrades Mobile Search With More Content
Yahoo has been getting good press (often at Google’s expense) for its wide release of oneSearch, a mix of structured and unstructured data in search results intended to deliver “answers” rather than links. Last night Yahoo made several more mobile announcements. Danny covered them here earlier today. Google, appearing to respond to oneSearch and other […]
Yahoo Pushes oneSearch To Most Mobile Phones
Yahoo’s oneSearch for mobile phones, previously only available on a select few devices, is now available for more than 85% of all web-enabled mobile phones. “We’re really redefining what search is for the mobile phone,” said Lee Ott, director of Mobile Web for Yahoo. Yahoo oneSearch for Mobile 2.0 is now accessible to more than […]