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ysearchblog.com - 2/18/2009

Yahoo! Search Blog » Blog Archive » Five Years of Yahoo! Search

— ysearchblog.com — Five years ago today, Yahoo! launched its own search engine. Since then, we’ve introduced a host of... new features, vastly improved the relevance of both our algorithmic and sponsored results, and learned some important lessons. Search technology is ... (more) Yahoo! Search Blog » Blog Archive » Five ...

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nytimes.com - 2/19/2009

Yahoo Shows Search Ads With Images and Video

— nytimes.com — The struggling search engine is trying to win business back from its big rival, Google, by improving... click-through rates. > (more) Yahoo Shows Search Ads With Images and Video

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ycorpblog.com - 2/14/2009

Update on our new homepage testing

— ycorpblog.com — As many of you know, we started testing new concepts for the Yahoo! homepage last fall, with... the goal of helping to simplify the Web for the more than 300 million people around the world who visit the site each month. We are wrapping up the first ... (more) Update on our new homepage testing

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Yahoo rolls up mobile apps under Yahoo Mobile moniker
Between the Lines — ... Yahoo said Tuesday that it has launched a beta program for Yahoo Mobile, the rollup of its various wireless applications.  Yahoo Mobile will be available in late March and mobile Web in late March ( statement ). In late May, Yahoo Mobile will be available for other smartphones like the Blackberry, Windows Mobile devices and Nokia’s S60 and 40. In a nutshell, Yahoo Mobile aggregates various services from the company in one application.  The application will include: Overall, Yahoo Mobile is a bit cosmetic, but a necessary step. I’ll download it just for the aggregation of ...

This year at MWC, no one is eating Yahoo’s free ice cream
VentureBeat — ... So what exactly are Yahoo’s mobile properties? Well there’s a whole list of things you can find here under various names (now you see why they rebranded and bunched together the whole lot), but the most useful ones are oneSearch and oneConnect, which, bring you Yahoo Search and access to things like your email, address book, calendar and messaging on your mobile devices, respectively. ...

Yahoo rolls up mobile products into single service
Webware.com — ... At the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday, Yahoo announced a revamping and reorganization of its mobile offerings. Beginning at the end of March, the company plans to roll out a new test version of its mobile Web start page, along with new smartphone applications that consolidate several of Yahoo's mobile services into one application. Applications for Apple's iPhone and other smartphones will let users search the Web, and keep an eye on Web mail accounts and widgetized data. The iPhone application, which is slated to be ...

Yahoo! Mobile app suite to bring Yahoo! integration to smartphones
Obsessable News Feed — ... , the company is working on a full-on assault on smartphones. The recently-announced Yahoo! Mobile project combines the app with access to your Yahoo! account, Yahoo! News, widget support, mapping, and Opera Mini. Versions of the software suite will be available for iPhones, Windows Mobile devices, Symbian phones, and BlackBerrys, with a web-based version of the package accessable from any phone running a WebKit-based browser. ...

Mobile News: Yahoo Mobile, Skype on Cell Phones, Second Android Phone, and More
ReadWriteWeb — ... Yahoo today announced a new, but as of yet unavailable version, of its Yahoo Mobile service. Yahoo Mobile will be released as a native app for the iPhone, as well as for smartphones from Nokia, RIM, Samsung, Sony, and Motorola. Yahoo Mobile will also work on all Windows Mobile phones. This will be a major upgrade to Yahoo's current mobile offerings and Yahoo Mobile will include all of Yahoo's key services like Yahoo Mail, News, Calendar, and Messenger. On every phone except for the iPhone, the Yahoo Mobile package will include Opera Mini and Yahoo Maps. ...

Yahoo! rebrands, introduces Yahoo! Mobile - Your Starting Point to the Internet
D' Technology Weblog — ... service - a highly-personalized mobile starting point to the Internet. Yahoo! Mobile will be available on the mobile Web, as an app developed for the Apple iPhone, and as an app developed for smartphones from Nokia, RIM, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola as well as those powered by Windows Mobile. Yahoo! Mobile initially will be available through a managed beta program, with general availability expected in Q2 2009. Full Features ...

MWC 2009: Yahoo Declares Open War On Google
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... 10:30 AM [image] If you glossed over the news about Yahoo's new mobile application for smartphones earlier this week, I'd invite you to take another look. Yahoo Mobile integrates all its services in one place better than Google does. I use the Google application for the iPhone. It works well enough, letting me start searches quickly and log in to my other Google services. Yahoo's new mobile application aims to bring all the content you're interested in to one spot -- your phone. Yahoo Mobile is an application for smartphones such as the iPhone, Nokia S60, and BlackBerry. It ...

Product Pulse - February 20, 2009
Yodel Anecdotal — ... in your phone’s browser (and be patient — it make take up to a few weeks to be admitted to the program). Here’s the press release. ...