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Which Search Engine Do You Choose In The Blind Test?
By Michael Arrington, Tech crunch you tried out this blind search tool yet? It provides results from Google, Yahoo and Bing in three columns but doesn’t tell you which column is which search engine. You then tell it which one you think shows the best results, and you then see which answers are from which [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Yahoo! Sideline is a desktop client for Twitter searches
By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad Yahoo! has launched a new application that lets you keep track of trends and search terms in Twitter from your desktop. While Yahoo! Sideline is based on Adobe AIR, it’s not a full fledged desktop client for Twitter like Twhirl or Tweetdeck.It doesn’t let you send messages or keep track of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Yahoo’s Newspaper Consortium Keeps Growing
By Erick Schonfeld, Techcrunch.com Even as Google is cancelling its experiment with newspaper advertising, Yahoo is expanding its newspaper consortium. Today, Yahoo is announcing that it is adding two new members: The Boston Globe and the St. Petersburg Times. That brings the consortium up to 38 media companies, representing 793 total newspapers, up from 635 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Yahoo’s Inquisitor Makes Search Shine On The iPhone
By Erick Schonfeld, Techcrunch.com Last May, Yahoo acquired a startup called Inquisitor which offers a search plug-in for all the major browsers. Today, Inquisitor is available as an iPhone app and it shows how certain features, such as Yahoo’s Search Assist, really shine on a mobile device where you want to keep your typing to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Yahoo SearchMonkey Adds Facebook Profile Actions Into Search Results
By Erick Schonfeld Yahoo just embedded some Facebook functionality directly into its search results via SearchMonkey. When you search for a person on Yahoo, if they have a public Facebook profile, a link to that profile will appear in results, along with a photo and several actions you can take. these include adding them as [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Do You Want Your Search Experience Personalized?
By Chris Crum In recent months, there has been a whole lot of talk about where search is going, and what search is lacking. This is commonplace for months encompassing the changing of years. A big part of the discussion is personalized search. Many SEOs aren’t entirely thrilled with the idea. It changes the way [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Microsoft Chief Still Stuck on Yahoo
Yahoo may have a new chief, but Steven A. Ballmer appears to be getting the same cold shoulder. As Mr. Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft, give a fairly grim outlook for 2009 at a strategic update on Tuesday, CNBC was reporting that Microsoft has been repeatedly “rebuffed” and “ignored” in its attempts to reach [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Yahoo Launches Trio Of Tools For Advertisers
By Mike Sachoff Yahoo has introduced three new tools aimed at making it easier for advertisers to target users based on their online behavior. Yahoo’s Search Retargeting tool allows advertisers to offer display ads to users based on searches for particular keywords on Yahoo. The company’s Enhanced Retargeting tool offers personalized display ads to users [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Google, Yahoo, Microsoft All Show Search Gains
by Chloe Albanesius Whether they’re searching for jobs or video clips of Britney Spears, Americans conducted 13.5 billion online searches at the core search engines in January, the majority of which were done via Google, according to Wednesday data from comScore. About 63 percent of January searches were done through Google-owned sites, with 21 percent [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Yahoo 2.0: Richer ads and a tiny piece of Google’s audience
by Sam Diaz Yahoo is getting ready to throw richer advertisements – think video – into its search results page, bringing a much-needed facelift to the boring ads that are made up of a headline, a couple of lines of text and a link. More importantly, Yahoo – now under new management – may be [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Yahoo Shows Search Ads With Images and Video
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD Yahoo is introducing a new type of search advertising that integrates images and video in paid listings, the company plans to announce Thursday. Search advertising typically shows only text advertisements and links. Marketers usually devote part of their online budget to search — which shows text-only advertisements and links — and part [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL search up; Google down
by Dawn Kawamoto Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL each carved out a little more U.S. search market share in January, but Google still had the biggest piece of the pie, according to a report Wednesday by ComScore. Yahoo Web sites accounted for 21 percent of the market (up half a percent) compared to the month before, [...]
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