Yahoo! Hires Media Chief
Date: 2004-11-02 Source: ClickZ
Yahoo! named TV veteran and dealmaker Lloyd Braun to head its media and entertainment properties. In the role, he'll oversee a huge online division that includes movies, TV, music, games, news, finance, sports, health and kids content and businesses. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Jerry's Take On What's Next in Search
Date: 2004-10-28 Source: Yahoo! Search Blog
Search as a problem is still far from being solved. The user is in the driver's seat: they want an experience that is increasingly personal, more relevant, and ties into their task more integrally. Search is just a way to get that integrated experience, but it's all about what the users want - when they want it, how they want it, and who they want it from. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Search Tricks #2: News Search
Date: 2004-10-26 Source: Yahoo! Search Blog
To celebrate the public launch of RSS on Yahoo! News Search I thought I'd write a quick blog entry and expose some of the more useful (and lesser known) features of the service. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Tag Team: Yahoo and Adobe
Date: 2004-10-25 Source: Wired
Stepping up the heated battle between online search and services companies, Yahoo and Adobe Systems have joined forces to tap each others' customers and put web search features into Adobe's popular Acrobat Reader software. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo, Adobe team on search
Date: 2004-10-25 Source: News.com
The companies said in a statement that they would work on a number of joint projects, including creation of an online service to convert Web content into PDF (portable document format) files and a toolbar that would add access to Yahoo Search and other features to Adobe Reader, the company's free PDF client. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Image Search: 1 Billion and Counting
Date: 2004-10-22 Source: Yahoo! Search Blog
Yahoo Image Search has surpassed a billion and is still growing. But rather than brag about what an impressive achievement that is and how the new results page sports a cleaner layout, we wanted to share some interesting tidbits. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo! Adds to E-mail, RSS Assets
Date: 2004-10-22 Source: ClickZ
Yahoo! has acquired privately held Stata Labs, developer of the searchable e-mail client/RSS reader Bloomba and the SAproxy Pro spam filter. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo! Profits Soar from Ads, Google Stake
Date: 2004-10-13 Source: ClickZ
While the company saw substantial growth from advertising, more than half of the quarter's income came from the sale of 25 percent of the stock the company held in rival Google after the latter company's August IPO, along with associated tax benefits. Excluding that income, Yahoo! still nearly doubled profits from the same period last year, at $124 million for the third quarter of 2004. Earnings per share of $0.09 were in line with analysts' expectations, as surveyed by Thomson/First Call. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo profit more than triples
Date: 2004-10-12 Source: News.com
Yahoo reported its quarterly profit more than tripled from the year earlier, boosted by stronger online advertising and its acquisition of Overture Services. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Wake Up, Yahoo!
Date: 2004-10-06 Source: Fool.com
When Yahoo! acquired the pioneer in the lucrative paid search arena, it seemed as though it was just a matter of time before Overture's market leader position, coupled with the marketing muscle of Yahoo!, would leave its rivals eating cyberdust. However, under that assumption, the clock's been running slow. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
My Yahoo! Search Beta Debuts
Date: 2004-10-05 Source: ClickZ
Yahoo! has thrown its hat into the personalization ring, unveiling a beta test of a personal product that echoes those of Ask Jeeves, Looksmart's Furl.net, and Amazon.com's A9. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo Introduces Personal Search
Date: 2004-10-05 Source: SearchDay
Yahoo has enhanced its My Yahoo service with personalization features including search history, the ability to save pages to a 'personal web' and block URLs from appearing in search results. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo CEO Describes Art of the Deal
Date: 2004-10-04 Source: HBS Working Knowledge
Don't say too much. Ask a million questions. Size up the situation. Try to find out what they have in mind. Find out about stuff around the price such as the people: Do they really want this? Would they like us to buy them? Get a whole history. If it's a serious transaction for the company, get personally involved—not to be best friends, but to understand better. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo launches local-search engine
Date: 2004-10-04 Source: News.com
Yahoo announced Monday that it's launched Yahoo Local, part of a move to give Web surfers more exact and more comprehensive local-search results. Previously, the service had been available only in beta form. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
