- Yahoo Scoops Google News
Date: 2004-03-22 Source: SearchDay
In a modern-day version of the great newspaper wars, Yahoo News scooped Google News late last week when Yahoo launched an enhanced version of its news search engine.
[Open In New Window] - Yahoo takes a page from Google
Date: 2004-03-22 Source: News.com
In direct competition with Google, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo introduced its own software to navigate online news from more than 7,000 sources, replacing its year-long partner Moreover Technologies.
[Open In New Window] - Yahoo! Betas New News Search
Date: 2004-03-18 Source: ClickZ
The portal player now combines data from its Yahoo! News section, which consists of headlines and stories fed by partners, with news its crawler finds on the Web. The company says it's crawling more than 7,000 news sources in 35 languages.
[Open In New Window] - Yahoo Beta Testing News Search 2.0
Date: 2004-03-17 Source: Search Engine Journal
Yahoo has begun beta testing Yahoo News 2.0, a new News Search Engine which unlike the current Yahoo News, draws in news stories from thousands of online news sources indexed by Yahoo. News Search now combines articles from Yahoo! News and over 7,500 crawled news sources around the Web.
[Open In New Window] - Early investor in Yahoo nets $8 million
Date: 2004-03-15 Source: SiliconValley.com
Yahoo director Arthur Kern, an early investor in the Internet media giant, collected a net gain of almost $8 million last month by exercising options priced at pennies a share and then selling that stock for more than $46 a share.
[Open In New Window] - Questionable Results at Revamped Yahoo
Date: 2004-03-11 Source: BizReport
I am a big fan of Yahoo, believing it has the best general portal on the Web. Still, I am worried about where Yahoo is heading with its revamped Web search, especially after testing it last week.
[Open In New Window] - Yahoo! Yeah, Baby!
Date: 2004-03-11 Source: Fool.com
Yahoo! will incorporate Yahoo! Messenger with British Telecom's new voice over Internet protocol, better known as VOIP, which will allow users to make phone calls over Yahoo!'s messaging software.
[Open In New Window] - Yahoo Enhances Local Search with Maps
Date: 2004-03-10 Source: SearchDay
Yahoo's new Smart View technology pinpoints the location of restaurants, banks, merchants and other businesses and attractions on local maps of cities throughout the United States and Canada.
[Open In New Window] - Opening Salvo in Search War
Date: 2004-03-02 Source: Wired
Yahoo is adopting a new system for indexing Web pages that will charge businesses to include more material currently unlisted in its online search engine, marking the first volley in a duel with its former ally Google.
[Open In New Window] - Yahoo crawls deep into the Web
Date: 2004-03-02 Source: News.com
Yahoo on Tuesday began a systematic effort to draw more content into its searchable database of Web documents, its latest bid to win Web surfers from search rival Google.
[Open In New Window] - The death of AltaVista and AlltheWeb
Date: 2004-03-01 Source: Pandia
Pandia is sad to announce that the AltaVista and AlltheWeb search engines will cease to exist in the very near future. The sites will remain, but their search technology will be replaced by the new Yahoo! search engine.
[Open In New Window] - The Search Engine That Isn't a Verb, Yet
Date: 2004-02-23 Source: The New York Times
Mr. Semel says the new search engine is just the beginning of a rapid series of improvements to Yahoo's search capabilities. Many of these, he says, will try to exploit Yahoo's two main advantages over Google - its vast array of original content and a database with information about its 133 million registered users. Knowing where searchers live and what their interests are, Yahoo believes, will let it present results that are more relevant and advertising that is more focused.
[Open In New Window] - New Yahoo really something to see
Date: 2004-02-22 Source: USAToday.com
A test drive of the new Yahoo shows a richer graphic experience than Google, with more links to extras in the Yahoo network such as music and videos, comparison shopping and travel data.
[Open In New Window] - Yahoo dumps Google search technology
Date: 2004-02-18 Source: News.com
Yahoo drops Google as the default search technology provider for its U.S.-based sites, signaling the beginning of the end for the Web's most high-profile marriage of convenience.
[Open In New Window] - Yahoo! Birth of a New Machine
Date: 2004-02-18 Source: SearchDay
Yahoo is launching a brand new search engine today, with its own index and ranking mechanisms, casting aside its long-standing use of Google-powered search results. The move is bound to roil the industry and sets in motion a new race for the claim of web search champion.
[Open In New Window] - Yahoo! Launches New Search Technology
Date: 2004-02-18 Source: About Web Search
The new search technology offers some expanded features that were not previously available with the Google supplied results. The new algorithm captures nearly five times the page content that Google does and features a view cache option similar to Google's. Additional features include links to RSS feeds and the ability to add those feeds to a users' personal "My Yahoo!" page.
[Open In New Window] - Yahoo! Revs Up Own Search Tech, to Mostly Cheers
Date: 2004-02-18 Source: InternetNews.com
Yahoo! flipped the switch on its algorithmic search function Wednesday, deploying its own technology on its portal and leaving Google's algorithmic results behind. Thus far, the new functionality is meeting with approval from the industry.
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