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Slow Web site? Yahoo open-sources an app for that
news.cnet.com - 23 days ago
Slow Web site? Yahoo open-sources an app for that
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Betting that the benefits of the move will outweigh the risks, Yahoo has released the source code underlying in-house software called Traffic Server that can speed up Web site operations. The software works by moving some data and operations closer on the Internet to the people trying using ...
Yahoo To Launch Real Time Search, Too
techcrunch.com - 29 days ago
Yahoo To Launch Real Time Search, Too
— techcrunch.com — Not wanting to be left completely behind, Yahoo will soon launch their own real time search engine... too. But unlike Microsoft and Google , they won’t be partnering with Twitter and Facebook directly for the data (perhaps memories of their ... (more) Yahoo To Launch Real Time Search, Too

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It's Complicated, But MicroHoo Hasn't Fallen and Will Get Up (Now, Lay Off Jerry Yang)
kara.allthingsd.com - 28 days ago
It's Complicated, But MicroHoo Hasn't Fallen and Will Get Up (Now, Lay Off Jerry Yang)
— kara.allthingsd.com — In what should come as a shock to almost no one, the detailed negotiations to complete the... Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO) search and online advertising final agreement is more complicated that its authors anticipated and is taking longer than ... (more) It's Complicated, But MicroHoo Hasn't Fallen and Will ...

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marketwatch.com - 28 days ago
Yahoo's real estate plans show large ambitions
— marketwatch.com — Alert Email Print By John Letzing , MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Yahoo Inc. has been slashing... costs and narrowing its focus recently, as it retrenches from a bruising Internet search rivalry with Google Inc. and grapples with the ... (more) Yahoo's real estate plans show large ambitions

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Slow Web site? Yahoo open-sources an app for that
Webware.com — ... pay significant dividends. Building a series of significant open-source packages could lead to a Yahoo infrastructure that's high-powered but that's more standard than custom-made. It's not every day that large, significant software packages arrive on the Net in open-source form--much less a series of them that are relevant increasingly competitive market of large-scale Web sites. So it could be Yahoo's gift will indeed be Yahoo's gain. Originally posted at Deep Tech ...

Yahoo does right by Traffic Server
Open Source — It’s easy to become obsessive over whether a piece of code is open source. How code becomes open source  can be just as important. Is it being given the resources and sponsorship necessary to grow? Or is it being tossed over the side of a sinking ship? By those standards, Yahoo has done its Traffic Server, acquired early this decade along with Inktomi, a solid service, placing the code with Apache. The code is available right now from Apache’s incubator. This brings the number of incubator projects to 36. ...

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