Expanding its horizon to music and videos yesterday Yahoo announced its Yahoo! Video Search in response to Google Music search service. This new service provides an easier and organized way to search for music videos of your favorite artists. The records include most popular albums and songs from various artist or bands. The new video [...]
Nov
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Yahoo! search on Germany’s O2 mobile, Google dismissed
Yahoo! has gained a deal winning over search giant Google in Germany with the signing of multi-year partnership with O2. Noticeably Google was O2’s search partner earlier. O2 Germany inked the deal based on the benefit Yahoo brought to O2 in U.K. and T-Mobile in Germany. In 2007 Yahoo signed deal with Telefonica. Though Telefonica [...]
Oct
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2009
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2009
Google, Microsoft search may soon tweet Twitter’s data
Twitter is planning to bring your tweets to real time searches of both Google and Microsoft’s Bing. Twitter is separately in talks with both the search engines to foster the search results with its “data-mining deal”. The deal if stamped will allow full Twitter’s feed to be incorporated into the search results of both the [...]
Oct
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2009
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2009
Leaked password scam @ Hotmail+Gmail+yahoo and othersl
Massive phishing scam of 10,000 hotmail users is now considered to be double in scale and widely spread even to other accounts like Gmail, AOL, Yahoo and many more. The recent updates from BBC reports that “they have seen a list of over 20,000 more names and passwords posted on the same website, containing email [...]
Sep
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Justice Dept. needs more info on Microsoft- Yahoo deal
It seems that Justice Department of US is not going to let Microsoft and yahoo goes in hands with each other so easily on the search engine treaty. Microsoft and Yahoo have been asked by the Justice Dept. to provide them the second batch of information on their Internet search deal that clearly implies a [...]
Aug
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Yahoo Adds Social Features in Mail and Mail and Messenger
Yahoo products such as Mail and Messenger will soon grow more social, allowing users to update their status, share photos with friends, and initiate video calls. In addition, Yahoo Search is about to get a new results page that can connect searchers directly to the Web content they seek without leaving the results page. The [...]
Aug
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2009
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2009
Microsoft Bing Search Share Rises To 8.9%
Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine handled 8.9 percent of US queries in July, up from 8.4 percent in June, while Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. lost market share. Of the 13.6 billion U.S. searches conducted in July, 64.7% were conducted through Google (NSDQ: GOOG) sites, a 0.3 percent point decline from June, according to ComScore. [...]
Aug
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2009
Yahoo Announces New Deals Website
Yahoo Inc. announced Monday the launch of a new Web site to provide daily deals, online coupons, grocery coupons, local coupons, store circulars and exclusive deals. Online couponing has been on the rise for awhile, but the momentum increased when the economy went south. A Yahoo! survey shows that 43% of participants are using coupons [...]
Jul
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Yahoo Acquires Photo Management Company Xoopit
Yahoo has acquired photo management company Xoopit for an undisclosed sum, Yahoo said late on Wednesday. Xoopit allows users to cull, organize and share pictures that were sent in Yahoo Mail. Xoopit’s technology with Yahoo Mail, users would be able to centrally organize all the photos they had ever sent or received and then easily [...]