Yahoo! Welcomes Google Instant With A Tinge of Regret

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With much fanfare, Google launched Google Instant search: a new way to search before you type. Google Instant looked a completely new way to search. However, Search Engine Land digged a little bit and revealed that Google Instant is not that new. As Google claims, Google Instant may be a fundamental shift in the way [...]

Google Wants to Eat Yahoo’s Pie

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Google is luring Yahoo users to use more of Google products by making it easier to sign-in to Google account. In its blog, Google announced that with the use of an Internet standard called OpenID, Yahoo users can sign-up for Google products just using their Yahoo accounts. Until now Yahoo! users wanting to sign up [...]

Yahoo! has Gone Bing. Microsoft’s Search Take Over is Complete

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Yahoo! and Microsoft announced this Monday that the transition of Yahoo organic search from Yahoo to Microsoft technology is complete in US and Canada. Now, almost all forms of Yahoo search, including Web, Images, and Video search on computers and mobiles are powered by Microsoft platform. What this means for users is that for any [...]

Yahoo to Unveil its Own Content Factory “Yahoo Upshot”

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Fresh off buying Associated Content for $100 million, Yahoo! is putting the idea of using search queries to create content with Yahoo! Upshot. New York Times reported that Yahoo is unveiling the Upshot tomorrow. It will be available at news.yahoo.com/upshot, as the product goes live tomorrow. Content factories, like Demand Media and Associated Content have created [...]

A Brief History of Acquisitions: Google, Yahoo, Apple, Microsoft, and IBM

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Aardvark, reMail, Picnik, DocVerse, Simplfy Media, Episodic, PlinkArt, and more.  Can you find the common thing connecting these companies? Well. This is a partial list of companies acquired by the giant Google, just this year alone.  The latest victim that got added to the list is the ITA software, the back bone of travel search [...]

The Yahoo! Style Guide For The Web Available on July 6

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Yahoo announced today that The Yahoo! Style Guide: The The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital World”; the first ever style guide for creating web content, will be available on July 6. The Yahoo! Style Guide is priced at $21.99 and will be available where ever books are sold. The guide will [...]

Bing Gets a Pat on the Back from Steve Jobs

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A few weeks back there were rumors of Bing completely replacing Google as a default search engine in iPhone. The rumors died immediately and even Steve Jobs quashed the rumors at All Things Digital’s conference D8 by saying that Google will stay in iPhone. Steve Jobs: Bing is kinda cool As expected Microsoft’s search engine [...]