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Yahoo! has made available its mobile search service Yahoo! oneSearch to Rogers Wireless and Fido customers across Canada. Yahoo! oneSearch is specifically designed for mobile devices, delivering relevant results directly in the first screen. Yahoo! oneSearch also gives consumers access to news, financial information, weather conditions, Flickr photos, web images, as well as web and mobile websites. Yahoo! oneSearch also allows Rogers customers to shop in a catalogue of several ringtunes, games, graphics and other content which will be made available in the search results. This announcement builds on the expanded Rogers Communications and Yahoo! multi-year mobile, broadband and PC search agreements announced late last year.
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via Telecom.paper @ 10:15 14th May
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Microsoft dropped bid for all of Yahoo! on 8 June and launched a bid of USD 1 billion for Yahoo!'s search business and a share of future search advertising revenue. This proposal also included an USD billion investment in Yahoo! but required Yahoo! to commit to a 10-year exclusive arrangement, according to a letter sent to Yahoo! stockholders by CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock. The letter explains the reasons for Yahoo! to sign a four year non-exclusive deal with Google for online advertising services and to end the talks with Microsoft, as their search-only hybrid proposal may have been helpful to Microsoft. The board and its advisers also carefully studied the financial impact of Microsoft's proposal and concluded that it would have provided no meaningful improvement to the operating cash flow.
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via Telecom.paper @ 6:07 28th Jun
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Could this be the beginning of the end for Yahoo? Yahoo's interest in a search deal with Google was initially viewed as a poison pill move to thwart efforts of Microsoft to acquire Yahoo. I certainly saw it that way as did many others. Yahoo has continued down this path, announcing a deal with Google late Thursday afternoon. The deal basically outsources Yahoo's search ad placement to Google AdSense. Hey, I use AdSense on my personal blog, so why shouldn't Yahoo! The more the merrier I always say.
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via NetworkWorld @ 16:57 13th Jun
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In a major step forward in search technology, Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is working with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) to make Flash files searchable in online search. The project will enable searches on Flash content to return text and links, which can then be indexed, and hence available in search results for the users. Content from a Flash application or even a game or advertisement will be available to search engines, reports InfoWorld. Pages containing a Flash .SWF file will be returned in a search. Google has already implemented this, while Yahoo, ever the laggard, will enable Flash search in a future version, whenever that comes out.
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via PaidContent.org @ 4:13 1st Jul
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Microsoft lost Internet search users in the United States to Google and former takeover target Yahoo last month, research firm ComScore said. Microsoft, the world's biggest software maker, handled 8.5 percent of queries in May, down from 9.1 percent the month before, Reston, Va.-based ComScore said Thursday in a statement. Google extended its lead to 61.8 percent, and Yahoo grew to 20.6 percent, ComScore said. The companies are vying for a bigger piece of the $41 billion online advertising market. Microsoft's talks to buy Yahoo's search business for $1 billion ended last week, around the time Yahoo struck a deal to show some Google ads on its search pages. Microsoft's proposal would have included an $8 billion investment in Yahoo. Google handled 61.
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via The Mercury News @ 15:07 20th Jun
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Yahoo has launched a new search tools for developers that will enable businesses to control aspects of their search listing.
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via VNUNet.com @ 18:17 15th May
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snydeq writes with a story from InfoWorld which says that "Yahoo has ended its talks with Microsoft and is instead nearing an agreement with Google. Yahoo's purported reason for breaking off the talks? That Microsoft was only interested in purchasing Yahoo's search business, not all of the company. 'Such a transaction would not be consistent with the company's view of the converging search and display marketplaces, would leave the company without an independent search business that it views as critical to its strategic future and would not be in the best interests of Yahoo stockholders,' the company said in a statement. The deal with Google allegedly involves Yahoo's search advertising business. The move likely will draw more ire from Icahn and may in fact remain part of the elaborate poker game between the two companies.
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via Slashdot @ 2:03 13th Jun
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In the latest developments between Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Reuters reports that the two parties are now focused on arriving at a value for Yahoo’s search business, and that discussions could end in the “next week or so.” The story, which quoted an unnamed person familiar with the matter, said in the latest scenario, Microsoft is proposing to buy Yahoo’s search business and take a minority stake in the company after Yahoo sells off its Asian assets. But apparently, the complicated part is in determining a price. The source explained that any amount “would be tied to how revenue-sharing and other deal terms are structured.” Two possibilities: Microsoft may pay Yahoo for search queries and traffic acquisition costs and Yahoo may seek guarantees on the rate Microsoft will pay and a specific time commitment f
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via PaidContent.org @ 1:24 5th Jun
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Building on its text-advertising dominance, Google on Thursday said that it has reached an agreement to allow Yahoo to serve Google's Adsense search and contextual advertising as well as allow enable users on Gchat and Yahoo! Messenger to communicate without between the networks. Under the predicted non-exclusive 10-year agreement, Yahoo! has the option to display Google ads alongside its own natural search results in the U.S. and Canada and Yahoo! can serve contextually targeted ads on its U.S. and Canadian web properties as well as on its current publisher partner sites. Yahoo, however, is free to enter into similar agreements with other advertising providers and use Google's advertising on as many or as few of its search results and content pages as it chooses.
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via Electronista @ 18:22 14th Jun
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Free Search Engine Marketing tips for businesses by leading web design company i - Kronikmedia, a leading independent website Design Company based in London have launched a new search engine marketing and Ecommerce blog that offers up to date search engine marketing advice to businesses small or large. The Search engine marketing blog is regularly updated with new articles and practical search engine marketing and ecommerce advice that can help businesses understand the core search engine marketing concepts and increase sales and lead for their website. Search engine marketing is un0doubtably the most cost effective form of marketing available for businesses and offers a high return on investment. The blog has been set up to promote better understanding of search engine marketing and ecommerce principles.
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via Business Portal 24 @ 0:24 29th Jun
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SearchOk a unique meta search engine - SniperSoft has now launched new fully customizable meta search engine tool SearchOk. You will be able to use a variety of tool in order to fully cater this search program to your search needs; you will be under full control over the information that you are interested in. SearchOk is a desktop application targeted at specialized search. SearchOK is able to search over 2,000 + search engines and websites simultaneously cutting down on the amount of unnecessary information that many search engines find. SearchOK 2.
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via Business Portal 24 @ 19:44 27th May
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Following up on weekend reports about Microsoft and Yahoo! returning to merger talks, reports are now saying that the talks focus on Microsoft buying Yahoo!’s search business. Sources reportedly claim that Yahoo! would then sell off its Asian assets, including Chinese Internet company Alibaba Group and Yahoo! Japan. Reuters reported that Microsoft would then buy the remaining chunk of Yahoo!.
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via Wireless Week @ 16:41 20th May
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BOSTON (Reuters) -- Microsoft Corp has proposed to buy Yahoo Inc's search business and take a minority stake in the Web pioneer, stopping short of a full-out merger, a person familiar with the discussions said on Monday. As part of the deal Yahoo would put its Asian assets, including significant minority stakes in Yahoo Japan and China's Alibaba Group, up for sale, while Microsoft would buy a chunk of what remains of the company, the source said. The talks were revealed by the two companies on Sunday, but they declined to reveal the terms of the discussions. Earlier this month, Microsoft walked away from a proposal to acquire Yahoo for $47.5 billion, or $33 per share, after Yahoo rebuffed the offer, saying it would only settle for $37 a share.
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via Tehran Times @ 16:42 20th May
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Even as Carl Icahn rallies angry shareholders to try to force Yahoo (YHOO) back to the bargaining table with Microsoft (MSFT), one of the “strategic alternatives” Yahoo may still be trying to work out in the background is a search advertising deal with Google. There is a 60 to 70 percent gap between what Google collects for search ads and what Yahoo collects, so simply handing over a portion of its search advertising inventory to Google would boost its cash flow and profits considerably—perhaps adding as much as $1 billion or more in cash flow.
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via Seeking Alpha @ 7:32 18th May
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McAfee and Yahoo have launched a partnership to create safer Web searching. The beta SearchScan, built on McAfee's SiteAdvisor, alerts Yahoo Search users to potentially risky sites. Yahoo was motivated to work with McAfee: A McAfee report last year indicated that Yahoo Search had the highest percentage of risky search results.
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via Sci-Tech Today @ 18:19 12th May
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McAfee and Yahoo have launched a partnership to create safer Web searching. The beta SearchScan, built on McAfee's SiteAdvisor, alerts Yahoo Search users to potentially risky sites. Yahoo was motivated to work with McAfee: A McAfee report last year indicated that Yahoo Search had the highest percentage of risky search results.
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via NewsFactor Network @ 19:03 9th May
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McAfee and Yahoo have launched a partnership to create safer Web searching. The beta SearchScan, built on McAfee's SiteAdvisor, alerts Yahoo Search users to potentially risky sites. Yahoo was motivated to work with McAfee: A McAfee report last year indicated that Yahoo Search had the highest percentage of risky search results.
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via NewsFactor Network @ 19:04 9th May
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McAfee and Yahoo have launched a partnership to create safer Web searching. The beta SearchScan, built on McAfee's SiteAdvisor, alerts Yahoo Search users to potentially risky sites. Yahoo was motivated to work with McAfee: A McAfee report last year indicated that Yahoo Search had the highest percentage of risky search results.
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via Data Storage Today @ 12:45 9th May
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Wouldn't it be great to understand exactly how Google decides to rank websites? And wouldn't it be even better if the information on Google search rankings came from a true ''insider'' at Google? Well if the Google blog is to be believed, the company has begun an effort to do just that. Udi Manber, a Vice President of Engineering at Google is part of the team called 'Search Quality'. Search Quality is the name of the team responsible for the ranking of Google search results. That is, when you type a search query into the search box at Google and hit enter, the Search Quality team is responsible to decide within a fraction of a second which among the billions of pages on the web to display, and in what order.
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via Web Host Industry Review @ 16:08 31st May
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(RTTNews) - In yet another blow to Internet information provider Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO), Google Inc. (GOOG) took the number one spot in the U.S. web properties ranking from Yahoo for the first time in the month of April. Yahoo is already under pressure from various sources as it has been steadily losing its search engine market share. A monthly analysis released by ComScore Inc. (SCOR) for April revealed that Google sites had 141.1 million visitors, an increase of 18% from the same month last year. Meanwhile, Yahoo sites fell to second place with only 140.6 million visitors for the month, which is an increase of 17% from the year-ago period. Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) was third with about 121 million visitors. Google has long been the Internet's leader in search, but its audience has trailed Yahoo's when counting other services such as e-mail and
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via Market Intelligence Center @ 22:38 17th May
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SniperSoft has now launched new fully customizable meta search engine tool SearchOk. You will be able to use a variety of tool in order to fully cater this search program to your search needs; you will be under full control over the information that you are interested in. SearchOk is a desktop application targeted at specialized search. SearchOK is able to search over 2,000 + search engines and websites simultaneously cutting down on the amount of unnecessary information that many search engines find.
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via PR-USA.net @ 8:28 28th May
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Google researchers are claiming that a newly developed approach to visual search may do for image searching what PageRank did for text search. "The research paper, 'PageRank for Product Image Search,' is focused on a subset of the images that the giant search engine has cataloged because of the tremendous computing costs required to analyze and compare digital images. To do this for all of the images indexed by the search engine would be impractical, the researchers said. Google does not disclose how many images it has cataloged, but it asserts that its Google Image Search is the 'most comprehensive image search on the Web.'"
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via Slashdot @ 13:45 29th Apr
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