Yahoo adds personalized homepage to its Scout AI search engine
Yahoo introduced MyScout, a personalized homepage for its Scout AI answer engine. It turns Yahoo’s AI search into a daily dashboard.
Topic: Yahoo! News
Yahoo debuts Scout, an AI search and companion experience
Yahoo Scout is Yahoo's come back to search, using AI, its massive network and data to give you a more fun AI search experience.
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Panda Strikes Again: Yahoo Voices & The Yahoo Contributor Network Closing Down
Yahoo has announced another round of product cuts and changes, all part of what it calls a continued effort on “furthering our focus.” The most notable cut announced today is the upcoming closure of both Yahoo Voices (voices.yahoo.com) and the Yahoo Contributor Network (contributor.yahoo.com). The former is Yahoo’s home for user-generated articles; the latter is […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 1, 2014
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Want News About New York In Yahoo News? Too Bad.
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 12, 2013
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 21, 2013
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 22, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Google Agrees To Settle Lawsuit Over Passing Search Queries To Third Parties Google has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit that stems from two searchers accusing the company of sharing their […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 6, 2013
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Twitter Improves Mobile Search: Top Tweets, Autocomplete & Web Browser Twitter announced search upgrades to the Twitter mobile app. The upgrades include an improved relevancy engine for top tweets, improved auto-completion […]
How PRWeb Helps Distribute Crap Into Google & News Sites
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 19, 2012
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Gives Update On Shopping Going Full Paid Inclusion, Hints At AdWords’ Future On Q3 Call Now that Google’s new pay-for-play Shopping is in full swing (the changeover took place October […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 21, 2012
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Sued By Texas Attorney General To Turn Over Documents According to a report in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Google has been sued by the Texas Attorney General’s office. The […]
8 Products That Might Be On Yahoo’s Chopping Block
Yahoo’s product teams are officially on notice. Shortly after announcing Q1 earnings yesterday, new Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson dropped a bomb during the analysts’ call when he said the company will be “shutting down or transitioning roughly 50 properties that don’t contribute meaningfully to engagement or revenue.” He went on to say that Yahoo’s focus […]
Yahoo Launches Mobile-App Search (For PCs) In The UK
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2011 Yahoo! In Review: Top US Searches In 30 Categories
Now celebrating a decade of recapping annual search trends, earlier today, Yahoo! released the 2011 list of most popular searches in the US in 30 different categories, topping last year’s extensive list. This year marks the first full year Yahoo! used has used the Bing search engine to primarily power Yahoo! search results, with Americans […]
Trapit Aims To Be Your Search “Personal Assistant”
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The Alphabet of Google+ Direct Connect
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Yahoo Product Runway: Livestand And IntoNow
Yahoo held its second now annual “Product Runway” event, mc’d by product chief Blake Irving. Irving was assisted by some younger executives from companies that Yahoo had acquired in the recent past. There were four announcements, lead by the formal unveiling of Livestand, Yahoo’s long-promised tablet news reader application. It competes with Flipboard, CNN’s Zite, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 13, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Larry Page: Google+ Now Has 40 Million Users As part of Google’s earnings announced today, CEO Larry Page announced that Google’s social network, Google+, now has 40 million members. That puts […]
Yahoo Gives Image Search A New Look
Yahoo’s Image Search is sporting a fresh look today that presents the image results in a cleaner, more organized fashion. Do a search and the results page shows all matches in a grid, with each image sized almost uniformly no matter their true dimensions or orientation (horizontal vs. vertical). Each image expands when you hover […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 2, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Twitter Sees Highest “Sustained” Activity Ever In Wake Of Osama Bin Laden News Twitter has released new numbers showing last night’s announcement that Osama bin Laden was dead generated the most […]
The Yahoo Search Revenue Disaster
Yesterday, Yahoo reported a second quarter of massive declines in its search revenue. Yahoo blamed the “headwind” of paying its partner Microsoft 12% of Yahoo’s net search revenues. Yahoo also said Microsoft’s ads are underperforming. But even without these factors, Yahoo has seen an almost unbroken quarterly decline in search revenues since 2008. Failure is […]
Yahoo Q1 2011 Mixed: Display Up, Search Down, Revenues $1.06 Billion
Yahoo reported Q1 revenues of $1,064 million, which represented a 6 percent decline vs. a year ago. The company essentially blamed the search deal with Microsoft for the decline: [The decline was] primarily due to the required change in revenue presentation related to the Search Agreement and the associated revenue share with Microsoft. For transitioned […]
Winners & Losers As Panda 2.0 Goes Global? eHow, Bing’s Ciao.co.uk & More
It’s only been 48 hours since Google expanded the Panda/Farmer update to all English language searches outside the US, and we’re already seeing reports about who the early winners and losers are. In some cases, the names are familiar if you followed the original reports when the algorithm change first hit in the US in […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 7, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Should You Ban A Country From Visiting Your Website? Website owners often put a website online and let the entire world access its contents. Essentially, they are claiming to service the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 4, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Twitter Improves “Who To Follow” Results & Gains Advanced Search Page Twitter announced that it has improved its “Who To Follow” feature with better people search results and added a new […]
The New York Times, Demand Media Edition
Demand Media — widely described as a “content farm” — went public yesterday and quickly racked up a valuation higher than the New York Times. I figured the news might cause some at the New York Times to wonder if they needed to be more Demand Media-like. Would every story be turned into a question? […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 14, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Voice Search Adds Personalization Traditional search on Google is already personalized (and has been for some time), and now the company has announced that its Voice Search service can also […]
Bartz: ‘Creepy’ Facebook Could Be Yahoo’s Top Competitor
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz says Facebook has a “creepy” amount of personal information about its users, and could become Yahoo’s number one competitor because of the value of that data. Her comments came about 10 days ago at the USA Today CEO Forum in Atlanta, and have just been published today on the paper’s website. […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 13, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: QR Codes: Are You Ready For Paper-Based Hyperlinks? You’ve probably seen them in newspapers, magazines or other paper-based publications: two-dimensional bar codes, called quick response codes (QR codes). What are they? […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 2, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Showing Four Top AdWords Ads, Top One Google Mortgage Ad When I search for [mortgage rates] in Google, I am presented with dozens of Google AdWords ads on the search […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 30, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Mobile App Comes To Verizon Android Handsets Microsoft previously said there was going to be an Android version of Bing soon, following its successful iPhone app. Today there is — […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 16, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Q&A: comScore’s New “Core Search” & “Explicit Core Search” Figures Today, comScore is releasing an additional set of search market share metrics designed to better reflect “core” search activity, something that’s […]
Q&A: comScore’s New “Core Search” & “Explicit Core Search” Figures
Today, comScore is releasing an additional set of search market share metrics designed to better reflect “core” search activity, something that’s become an issue as companies such as Yahoo and Microsoft have inflated traditional metrics through the use of “slideshows” and other “contextual search” activities. Below, a Q&A with Cameron Meierhoefer, comScore’s executive vice president […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 9, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google AdSense Updates Ad Layouts The Google AdSense blog announced they have updated the layout of some AdSense units. The main changes were to make the ads “more space-efficient and visually […]
Yahoo News Testing Related Search Results On News Stories
Yahoo has shared a sneak preview of a new content module that some users will see below individual stories on Yahoo News. The module shows related Yahoo content — news articles, photos, and videos — and also includes a handful of related search query links. The module is currently only being shown to a “fraction” […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 26, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Mobilizes Place Pages for Android Devices Today Google announced upgraded Maps for Android, with the addition of a new mobile version of Places (not to be confused with the Android […]