Archive of the Category 'Yahoo'

Changes at Yahoo – Search Monkey is no more, Site Explorer is staying

Wednesday, den 18. August 2010

Last night Yahoo announced that they will be making changes to it’s Search back-end infrastructure. Unfortunately Yahoo Search Monkey will no longer be supported (although they will continue to index current Search Monkey apps) and as of October 1st 2010 it will be no more. MyBlogLog will also be shutdown. Developers will now also be charged to [...]

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Flickr rolls out new Photos Page

Wednesday, den 4. August 2010

Today Flickr announced that they are rolling out a new Photos page to all of it’s users, see below for a list of new features taken from the Flickr Blog:
“Bigger photo: We’ve increased the default view size by 28%. Your cameras will be happy that your photos now take advantage of increasingly larger and higher [...]

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Yahoo and Bing working together

Tuesday, den 27. July 2010

Yahoo announced that they are already running tests on Yahoo’s search engine with Bing’s algorithm, for organic and paid results.
They said that these tests will only be seen on a maximum of 25% of the U.S. searches.
Yahoo and Microsoft’s mobile services are slowly integrating, same thing will happen with the search engines during the summer, [...]

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MySpace in Discussion with Yahoo & Bing

Tuesday, den 6. July 2010

The search advertising deal with MySpace and Google is going to be finishing next month and MySpace will be free to move their search to a new supplier. The Wall Street Journal report that MySpace is in talks with Yahoo and Bing for a new search deal. See below for a quote from the WSJ:
“News [...]

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Yahoo Enters the Android Market

Thursday, den 1. July 2010

Yahoo have announced the release of two new free apps and a free widget for the Android market. The first of the applications to reach the Android market is their Yahoo! Messenger app, and the second a Yahoo! Mail app. The widget for Android is a simple search widget (like the Google Search widget) which [...]

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The Yahoo / MSN Transition Explained (US/Canada)

Tuesday, den 22. June 2010

The Yahoo/MSN merger sent out a powerpoint presentation to US advertisers this week, detailing how the transition will work in the US/Canada. This includes a timeline for the changeover and a graphic on how the two companies will work together.

The benfits they give are outlined here:

They have also siad that the best 3 ways to [...]

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Yahoo Partners with Facebook

Monday, den 7. June 2010

Yahoo have agreed to a deal with Facebook in order to link users from Facebook to Yahoo. With this deal new features will start to surface on the Yahoo Homepage, Flickr and more that all link up with Facebook. Popular games on Facebook will also find their way over to Yahoo.
Cody Simms, Yahoo senior director [...]

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The BBC’s ‘Visual Graphic’ of the Top 100 Sites

Friday, den 12. March 2010

As part of their ‘Superpower’ season, the BBC have created an ‘Interactive Graphic’ showing the internet’s top 100 websites in terms of monthly traffic, as measured by Nielson.
The data has been segemented by industry, and covers the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil, US and Australia.
To view this extremely useful and interesting graphic [...]

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Yahoo include Live Twitter Feeds

Wednesday, den 24. February 2010

In a bid to improve users social media experiances, Yahoo has followed Google lead by intergrating real-time twitter feeds into their search results.
The Brand Republic reported:

“As part of a deeper integration with Twitter, Yahoo! ID users will be able to access tweets while they are using Yahoo!’s mail and sports sites. Users will also be [...]

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Microsoft / Yahoo Deal Approved

Friday, den 19. February 2010

The European Commision and US Department of Justice have approved Microsoft’s plans to buy Yahoo’s internet search and search advertising business. The EC said the ten-year deal, which will see Yahoo’s search service powered by Microsoft’s Bing, “wouldn’t significantly impede effective competition”.
NMA Had this to say:
“The deal was struck by the two companies last July [...]

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