Yahoo! Introduces New Home Page
Date: 2006-05-16 Source: Search Engine Guide
More than a year and a half after last updating their home page, Yahoo! has introduced another overhaul designed at helping them maintain their position as the most popular site on the web. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo! Adds Satellite Imagery to Maps
Date: 2006-04-12 Source: Search Engine Guide
Yahoo! announced yesterday on their corporate blog that they had added satellite imagery to their mapping service. The new feature is also available through Yahoo!'s API and the Yahoo! Developer Network so that mashup creators can being hacking together Yahoo! powered features. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo Used in Spyware Click Fraud Scheme
Date: 2006-04-05 Source: Search Engine Guide
The problem of click-fraud is an ever-present danger in pay per click advertising, one that troubles Google as well. The problem is not going to go away. In fact, it is likely to get worse. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo! Local Gets an Overhaul
Date: 2005-08-18 Source: Search Engine Guide
Drawing traffic from a local search site like Yahoo! Local isn't just going to be about buying the right directory listing or bidding on the right PPC term. It's going to be about making your customers happy enough that they want to tell other people about you.
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Yahoo! in Europe and Outerspace
Date: 2005-07-18 Source: Search Engine Guide
Yahoo has merged all its European search products under one common business brandname, Yahoo Europe. Yahoo will also be carrying a live feed 24/7 from the Discovery Space Shuttle mission.
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Yahoo! to Search Subscription Sites
Date: 2005-06-16 Source: Search Engine Guide
Yahoo! announced yesterday evening that they were planning to launch a new search tool that would work to index the content behind the passwords of subscription based sites like LexisNexis and ConsumerReports.org.
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Beta Version of Yahoo! News Goes Live
Date: 2005-04-15 Source: Search Engine Guide
Yahoo! News has released a new beta version of their popular news site to the public this week that features a slick new layout and some handy customization options.
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Yahoo fires latest salvos in Search Engine War
Date: 2005-03-25 Source: Search Engine Guide
This has been a good week for Yahoo. It has seriously upgraded its feature services and, as search engine user stats released yesterday by Search Engine Watch attest, is holding its position against Google and MSN in all fields. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo's game of photo tag
Date: 2005-03-22 Source: News.com
Flickr is a pioneer in a new method for cataloging the Internet that some believe could revolutionize Web search. As a result, Flickr could give Yahoo new competitive tools to take on Google, if it can put Flickr's community-based technology to broader use. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Mixing and Mingling With Yahoo!
Date: 2005-03-17 Source: Fool.com
The idea that Yahoo! users can share content with one another within their own Yahoo! community is a big plus, especially when you take into account the Web Mail, Instant Messaging platform, beefed-up search, and content features that the portal offers to users. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo Finally Hits Blog Scene
Date: 2005-03-16 Source: InternetNews.com
Yahoo 360 lets users set privacy and permission levels for access to their content. MSN Spaces lets users share music play lists, and Yahoo 360 lets them link to friends' LAUNCHcast play lists. It also follows MSN's route of integrating with other communication tools, including LAUNCHcast radio stations, Yahoo Messenger, Address Book and Groups. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo Steps Into Blogs, Networks
Date: 2005-03-16 Source: Wired
Yahoo is preparing to introduce a new service that blends several of its website's popular features with two of the internet's fastest-growing activities -- blogging and social networking. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo Launches 'Tech Buzz' game
Date: 2005-03-15 Source: SiliconValleyWatcher
With the Tech Buzz Game, "We're allowing people to make bets on what will be the winning emerging technology trends." As an example, Flake offers this question. When Apple releases Tiger, the new version of OS X, when will search queries for Tiger overwhelm searches for Panther? If you bet right, you'll earn more fake dollars and you'll be able to make more bets. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
RIM to bring AOL, Yahoo IMs to BlackBerry
Date: 2005-03-14 Source: News.com
The BlackBerry will be preloaded with Yahoo's IM software "in the coming months," the companies said, without getting more specific. Yahoo Messenger users will have full wireless access to their contacts and be able to carry on multiple chat sessions. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yahoo seeks to expand in Google territory
Date: 2005-03-11 Source: News.com
Yahoo plans to launch its own advertising option for small publishers, a source familiar with the plan said. Like Google's service, Yahoo's self-serve product will display text ads deemed relevant to the content of specific Web pages. Advertisers pay only when a reader clicks on their ad. Yahoo and publishers will split the fees. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Overture / Yahoo's contextual advertising program getting closer to reality
Date: 2005-03-08 Source: JenSense
I have confirmation from a manager at Overture that they are in their beginning test phase, and more information will be available after that time. In the meantime, anyone interested in getting more information as it becomes available, you can fill out an information request form at http://publisher.yahoo.com. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
