In June this year, Yahoo’s CEO Carol Bartz said the company sold its search business to Microsoft because, according to a New York Times report, “Yahoo could no longer continue to match the level of investment Google and Microsoft were making in searching”, and instead has plans to invest in the company’s display ad, content [...]

Email was a huge innovation when it became widely available more than 10 years ago. It changed the way people communicated in both business and personal settings. And of course it radically changed the way businesses communicated with customers and prospective customers. But the platform itself has not changed much in that time. Most email [...]

Have you heard of Yahoo Meme? The new microblogging site was soft-launched in Portuguese in May by invitation only and according to TechCrunch, Yahoo has just launched a Spanish version. Yahoo Meme is kind of like a Twitter / Facebook mashup. When you create an account, you are presented with an empty blog which you [...]

News has just broken on Twitter that Microsoft and Yahoo! have finally closed a deal where Bing will power Yahoo! search results while Yahoo! will become the worldwide sales force for both companies’ search advertising. @Bing broke the news with this tweet: “Bing. Yahoo! Two great tastes that are now going to be great together. [...]

Yahoo is close to making a deal with Microsoft that will see Bing become it’s search provider. That’s the rumor circulating amongst some reliable search sources today, including Advertising Age, the Seattle Post and ZDNet. Under the arrangement, Yahoo would outsource their search results to Bing, removing the need to maintain their own search infrastructure. [...]

Can any new search engine beat Google, probably not, mainly because Google isn’t going anywhere but up. It is the dominant search engine with around 72 percent of U.S. online searches and its percentages are much higher in other parts of the world. (Source: Hitwise) However, there are some serious new competitors that may just [...]

Just recently, Yahoo! launched a “Placemaker Service.” This is basically a simple web-based service that has the ability to geo-locate any type of un-structured information like plain text. According to Yahoo!, the Placemaker Service is more of a “geo-enrichment” rather than the more advanced geo-coding. Using this service, you can get results including the location [...]

Live blogging Instrumenting Your Life presentation at Webstock 09 by Tom Coates of the Yahoo Developer Network and Plasticbag.org. Yahoo has developed FireEagle. It gives people control over their location data to use across various social networks. It’s location-based data to help people discover cool stuff near their locations. Data is driving the creation of [...]

When we last left Yahoo!, Jerry Yang (CEO) and the rest of the board had just spurned Microsoft’s $44.6 billion takeover bid for the supposedly greener pastures of potential deals with AOL, News Corporation, and/or Google. The rejection of Microsoft’s bid also put the current board on a collision course with Carl Icahn in what [...]

Until recently, there were five major players in the search engine world: Google, MSN, AOL, Ask.com, and the Yahoo! search engine. These top Internet search engines quickly could be narrowed down to four, however; AOL uses the Google algorithm and will yield nearly identical results. Further narrowing is rapidly occurring – Ask.com seems to be [...]