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Yahoo’s New Search: Good Today, Gone Tomorrow?

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

On Monday, Yahoo unveiled significant revisions to its search engine, as detailed in this blog post. I like the new stuff–especially the embedded YouTube videos (despite owning YouTube, Google doesn’t embed it in search results) and the overall performance (as Yahoo claims, the new engine feels fast). But given Yahoo’s plans to turn its search infrastructure [...]

Bing Shows Signs of Life in the US

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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You might have noticed that Microsoft’s ads for its Bing search engine have become much more frequent on our pages as of late. I’ve noticed elsewhere a marked increase in advertisements for the service, which seems to imply that Microsoft may be staging another offensive in the war over search. Data from StatCounter shows that Bing [...]

Report: Microsoft Days Away from Yahoo Search Deal

Friday, July 17, 2009

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A cadre of Microsoft executives is in Silicon Valley to iron a search and online advertising deal with Yahoo, All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher is reporting. The executives include senior vice president of the company’s Online Audience Business Group Yusuf Mehdi, Online Services Group president Qi Lu, and Online Services senior vice president Satya Nadella, [...]

Interesting Changes for Twitter Search

Thursday, May 7, 2009

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Cnet’s Rafe Needleman has a scoop on ambitious tweaks that Twitter plans to make to its search feature: …Twitter Search, which currently searches only the text of Twitter posts, will soon begin to crawl the links included in tweets and begin to index the content of those pages…Twitter Search will also get a reputation ranking system [...]

Yahoo Share to Likely Shrink in 2009

Thursday, April 9, 2009

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Definitely not good news for the world’s second biggest search provider. Yahoo is set to lose a chunk of market share over the next year or so, experts say. This is due to the loss of two toolbar partners: HP, who signed up with Microsoft’s Live Search toolbar early last year; and Acer who silently switched [...]

Twitter Finally Integrates Search. For Me, at Least. And for You, I Hope.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

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One of the great mysteries of Twitter–there are several of ‘em–is how incredibly slow it’s been to take the obvious step of making search a key feature. (Without it, Twitter is like the world’s largest, noisiest party, not that that’s bad; with it, it starts to get far more useful.) The problem seemed to get [...]

Ballmer Met With Yahoo Exec This Week

Saturday, January 17, 2009

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So Steve, tell us again that you aren’t interested in Yahoo (although lately yes you have been singing a different tune)? Microsoft’s chief executive has reportedly met with Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock, according to a report in the New York Times. This would be the second contact by Ballmer to Yahoo’s higher-ups: he also apparently [...]

Here We Go Again – MicroHoo Search Deal Close?

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

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Harry earlier today passed along the news that former Autodesk chief Carol Bartz is the new CEO of Yahoo. So how long did you think it would take before somebody revives the MicroHoo talk? Apparently about two hours. Our good friend and colleague Kara Swisher over at AllThingsDigital is reporting that sources withing Microsoft are telling [...]

Microsoft’s Black Friday Black Eye

Monday, December 1, 2008

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If Microsoft wants to become a serious Web competitor to Google it should stop tripping over its own feet. On Black Friday, it was offering more apologies than bargains after embarrassing technical glitches incapacitated the company’s Live Search Cashback, scuttling its initiative to gain a larger share of the search market by giving searchers discounts [...]