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Yahoo reorganizes under pressure from Google

Yahoo has planned to implement new policies to increase the advertising expenses. It is planning to take these steps in response to declining financial performance and criticism the company has become too thinly
spread, too focused on new products, and too bureaucratic. Read the rest of this entry »

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Yahoo reorganizes under pressure from Google

Yahoo has planned to implement new policies to increase the advertising expenses. It is planning to take these steps in response to declining financial performance and criticism the company has become too thinly
spread, too focused on new products, and too bureaucratic. Read the rest of this entry »

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Yahoo plans India IPO

Yahoo’s new venture to launch new internet telecom services in India, where telecom industry is growing rapidly.Government’s approval is already been sought. Read the rest of this entry »

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Yahoo! Answers: 10 million strong and growing

At around 5:30 am on Sunday, May 7th, almost precisely five months since we launched, a user posted the 10 millionth answer on the service. This is a big day for us, and we’ve decided to celebrate by coming out of beta, and beginning the integration of Answers into our core search services. Read the rest of this entry »

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In U.K. Search Market, MSN and Yahoo Fight for Second

The search battle in the U.K. is for second place, with Google far ahead of the field, according to Hitwise (via PC Advisor), which says Yahoo’s share of U.K. searches has increased and is tied with that of MSN, with Yahoo Search and MSN Search each accounting for over 7 percent of U.K. Internet searches in the four weeks ended May 20. Google continues to dominate the U.K. search market, powering 77 percent of U.K. searches for the same period……………..More At……

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Microsoft and Yahoo to team up against Google?

The search wars have heated up recently with the news that Amazon.com is switching their searching from Google to Microsoft’s new “live” search. Read the rest of this entry »

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Google to reintegrate products in bid to keep control

GOOGLE doesn’t like to admit that it makes mistakes, but at its Zeitgest conference yesterday Eric Schmidt, the chief executive, conceded it needed to reintegrate its mushrooming family of products back into its original search offering… Read the rest of this entry »

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Google boss wants to create ‘artificial intelligence’

Google’s ultimate aim is to create a search engine with artificial intelligence to exactly answer any question a user puts to it, the company declared last night.. Read the rest of this entry »

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Pigs and Pilates: Google maps regional passions

IN St Albans the locals are obsessed with diets and gyms; in Liverpool they prefer fashion; in Aberdeen money is a key concern; and in Gateshead they have a thing about Kate Winslet. Read the rest of this entry »

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Google and Yahoo step up mobile ambitions

Google and Yahoo, for the second time, announced new mobile activities on the same day. Read the rest of this entry »

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Yahoo Search Engine Plans New Update

Another Yahoo Search Engine index update has been announced by Tim Mayer on the Yahoo Search Blog. Tim writes that the sixth major Yahoo updte will happen this evening:
“We will be making changes to the index tonight. You should see some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages that are included in the index. This update will be completed tomorrow (Thursday).“ Read the rest of this entry »

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Yahoo, Google to launch new wireless services-report

Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. are set to roll out new wireless services, taking advantage of advanced networks and cellphones to provide features similar to those available on computers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. Read the rest of this entry »

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Yahoo Adds Blogs To News Search Tool

Yahoo’s online news search tool added Internet journal entries alongside professional media offerings — an experiment that will test the public’s appetite for information from alternative sources. Read the rest of this entry »

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Yahoo Desktop Search Released

Yahoo Desktop Search has left beta. On Tuesday evening, Yahoo said it plans to make the finished version of its free desktop search software available. Read the rest of this entry »

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Yahoo Hires Search Vet Belanger

Yahoo beefed up its search agency capabilities with the hiring of former Carat Interactive executive Ron Belanger. Read the rest of this entry »

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Yahoo improves Web mail search

Yahoo is implementing improved search features for users of its mail services. New features include the capacity to search the full text of message attachments. It enhances the existing basic search facilities available through Yahoo Mail. Read the rest of this entry »

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Yahoo stores users’ search queries

That banner ad you see today on a Yahoo page may have been triggered by a search you did on the company’s search engine two days ago.
That is because Yahoo tracks users’ queries on its search engine and, based on that information, tailors the graphical ads it beams at them later throughout its network of sites. Read the rest of this entry »

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Yahoo adds new Web search capabilities to HotJobs

Yahoo Inc. said on Tuesday it has added new search technology that crawls the Internet to help users of its HotJobs employment site find openings on sites across the Web. Read the rest of this entry »

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Yahoo extends SMS search

Yahoo extends SMS search.Following Google’s lead, Yahoo has extended its search service with an offering that allows mobile phone users to receive query results via SMS. Read the rest of this entry »

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Yahoo sheds Overture brand

Yahoo’s commercial subsidiary has taken on a new name.The portal giant on Monday shed its Overture Services brand and renamed the unit Yahoo Search Marketing. The replacement of the Overture brand will take place in the U.S. market initially, the company said. Other international markets will be re-branded later, but the Overture brand will be maintained in Japan and Korea. Read the rest of this entry »

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