Vik Singh latest to leave Yahoo
Yahoo has lost yet another high profile individual named Vik Singh.
Vik Singh is known as the man behind Yahoo Boss service which enables anyone to create his own search engine.
Yahoo Boss has been such a success that it now power more than 1 billion searches every month. [...]
Yahoo! Search Assist updated with new features
Yahoo might be close to outsourcing their search engine to Microsoft Bing but they continue to enhance it to make it more powerful.
They have now updated their Yahoo! Search Assist service with new features.
The aim is to make it easier for the user to get the [...]
Yahoo all set to index Twitter to show up to date information
Yahoo has become the latest search engine company to take help from Twitter to stay up to date.
The company has announced that they would start indexing data from Twitter and show it along with search results in the coming days.
Microsoft and [...]
Microsoft Bing market share in USA: 10%
Microsoft has almost gained a 10% market share in the USA with their Bing search engine.
Google had around 65.5% market share while Yahoo had 18% in the month of October as per the reports published by comScore.
Microsoft Bing has done well but it seems to be taking [...]
Yahoo launches Spanish language Mobile Homepage
Yahoo aims to expand its coverage on Spanish language speaking regions.
The company has just launched their mobile homepage in Spanish language.
Yahoo said: “We’re reaching the highly influential and increasingly mobile Hispanic market with an engaging and customizable mobile Internet experience, regardless of the language users prefer.”
This specially designed [...]
Microsoft Yahoo partnership could be expanded to international markets!
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has stated that if things went well they can extend their partnership with Yahoo to international markets.
Microsoft and Yahoo recently announced a deal over their search engine services.
Yahoo Search would soon use Microsoft Bing engine for their searches in the [...]
Yahoo replaces Google on O2 Germany Mobile Portal
Yahoo has won a small battle against Google as they have replaced the search engine giant on German edition of O2’s mobile portal.
It would now provide their services on this mobile network including easy access to Flickr, Yahoo Eurosport, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Weather, Yahoo News and Yahoo [...]
Yahoo to collaborate with OneRiot for real-time search?
TechCrunch has reported that Yahoo is working on their own real-time search solution.
They are not going to enter into deals with Facebook or Twitter but are likely to be partnering an existing player in the market OneRiot.
Yahoo has not revealed anything on such rumored plans. [...]
Scott Dietzen latest high profile individual to leave Yahoo!
Scott Dietzen has become the latest high profile management guy to leave Yahoo.
He was the VP Applications at the company which made him responsible for some of the most prolific products on the web today including Yahoo Mail and Flickr.
He had arrived at Yahoo when it acquired [...]
American Association of Advertising Agencies in favor of Microsoft-Yahoo deal
American Association of Advertising Agencies has announced that they are in favor of the deal signed between Microsoft and Yahoo.
The deal is also being supported by other groups including Publicis Groupe, WPP, Interpublic Group of Companies and Omnicom Group.
These companies said in a [...]
