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Google and Yahoo, for the second time, announced new mobile activities on the same day.

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 [...]

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.

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.

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.

Yahoo beefed up its search agency capabilities with the hiring of former Carat Interactive executive Ron Belanger.

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.

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 [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]

Internet portal Yahoo Inc. says it’s testing what it calls “FareChase,” a search product to give consumers the opportunity to search multiple hotel sites including hotel chains and online travel agencies to find the best hotel and related travel information.

Yahoo! today announced a new search capability to allow people to find Creative Commons-licensed content. Coming on the heels of Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig’s call to support “remix culture” at the O’Reilly’s Emerging Tech conference, the move is another white hat for Yahoo among the open source/open culture crowd.

Yahoo is hoping to tempt more developers to its search products by providing easier access to its Web service APIs along with programmes and tools.

Yahoo Inc. is now offering a new tool that allows users of its local search service to send restaurant or business information in the form of a text message from a computer to a mobile phone.

Google has officially unveiled a prototype video search that scours the closed captioning text of television shows. Results are displayed with a still image of the video, along with snippets of text that contain the search terms.

Google remains the search leader but its fierce competitors Microsoft and Yahoo are narrowing the gap through improvements in customer loyalty and perception in the quality of search results, a research firm said.

According to Matt Hicks of eWeek, enterprise search software provider, Verity, has partnered with Yahoo to display sponsored search ads with internal search results.

The Yahoo video search service lets users narrow their query results by file formats–such as AVI, MPEG, Quicktime, Windows Media, and Real–size, and duration.

Yahoo Inc. is adding a tool to search computer hard drives as it scrambles to catch up with Google Inc. and stay a step ahead of Microsoft Corp. in the battle to help users sort through gobs of information on the Internet and the desktop.