arstechnica.com - 12/17/2008
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Yahoo is trumpeting its commitment to privacy today after agreeing to anonymize its log files after 30 days. That moves it ahead of Google and Microsoft, and Congress has already taken notice. Read More...
yhoo.client.shareholder.com - 12/17/2008
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yhoo.client.shareholder.com —
Yahoo! Sets New Industry Privacy Standard with Data
Retention Policy With Consumer-Friendly Standard, Yahoo! Sets 90-Day Data...
Retention Policy SUNNYVALE, Calif. & London, Dec 17, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced a ...
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Yahoo! Inc. - Press Release
developer.yahoo.net - 12/15/2008
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developer.yahoo.net —
You may have seen today’s news announcing the
next generation of Yahoo! Mail — rolling out a...
“smarter inbox” experience to users. One way to make an inbox smarter: make applications that can work within it, opening up Yahoo! Mail to content and ...
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Yahoo! Mail rolls out a smarter inbox
blogmaverick.com - 12/15/2008
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blogmaverick.com —
In this economic day and age, cash is
king. As markets, industries and companies delever in what...
seems to be a chorus of balance sheet deflation, the value of cash as an investment vehicle has increased exponentially. What does this have to do ...
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Yahoo to Scrub Search Logs After 90 Days [Yahoo]
Lifehacker —
Yahoo announces that it will start anonymizing its search logs after 90 days , a shorter retention period than Google (nine months) and Microsoft (18 months). In short, this means queries on Yahoo won't be personally identifiable (that is, tied to a user name or ID) after only 90 days, a fact that's sure to please privacy advocates concerned about search companies gleaning insane amounts of user-specific search data. Here's more on ...
Yahoo, Not Google Moves Search Data Match Closer to an Endgame
Google Watch —
... meet legal obligations.
Yahoo decided that 3 months data retention was all it needed to continue successfully offering its services. But doesn't 10 months seem like a drastic change to anyone, particularly after these companies have fought tooth and nail to keep data as long as they wanted?
Why was Yahoo dragging its feet? Perhaps Yahoo wants to evoke as much good will as it can as it slides ever so slowly into obliteration. Search Engine Land and Ars Technica seem to think so.
How much more value can Yahoo derive from holding user ...
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Yahoo to scrub personal data after three months
computerworld.com 12/17/2008 — Yahoo said Wednesday it will anonymize most of the data it collects about people's Web searches after three months, a move that could put further pressure on competitors Google and Microsoft to do the same due to privacy concerns.
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Yahoo to shorten logs of user activity to 3 months
boston.com 12/17/2008 — WASHINGTON Yahoo Inc. said Wednesday that it will shorten the amount of time that it retains data about its users' online behavior -- including Internet search records -- to three months from 13 months and expand the range of data that it "anonymizes" ...
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo as Ford, GM and Chrysler
blogs.zdnet.com 12/22/2008 — Could Google, Microsoft and Yahoo be the equivalent of Ford, GM and Chrysler more than 60 years ago?
That thought provoking question was raised by Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay, who cooks up weekend missives designed to make you go hmmm. The ...
Yahoo rolls out new data-retention policy
latimesblogs.latimes.com 12/17/2008 — Search engines are now competing to win the privacy PR war.
Amid mounting concern from regulators and watchdogs in Washington and Europe that large Internet companies are compromising their users' privacy by keeping data about online behavior for ...
Microsoft Still Wants Yahoo Search
marketingpilgrim.com 1/24/2009 — Well, Microsoft, you just cut 5000 jobs and missed your Wall Street estimates . What are you going to do now? If you guessed they’re going to Disney World, you’re wrong. No, according to Steve Ballmer, they’re looking to drop some ...
What Yahoo Must Do to Survive
readwriteweb.com 1/1/2009 — Internet search and advertising giant Yahoo! has been a household name almost from its inception in March of 1995. During the dot-com bubble, Yahoo! shares sold at a record $118.75 a share. Thirteen years later, Stanford alumni and Yahoo! co-founder ...
Yahoo Open Strategy is not open enough
news.cnet.com 12/17/2008 — Yahoo has been looking for ways to differentiate itself from Google and online rivals like Facebook and MySpace. Until now, it has largely been reactive, losing search market share to Google, as well as community market share to Facebook and others. ...
Is Yahoo done with search? [Exits]
valleywag.com 11/19/2008 — Among the many windmills Jerry Yang tilted at in his brief career as Yahoo's CEO was his devotion to Web search. It veered on an obsession for him. It played into his decision to resist Microsoft's offers to shower him with cash, first for his whole ...
Google Continues March To 80%-90% Search Share (GOOG)
alleyinsider.com 12/20/2008 — No change in trend in the November search share rankings. Google up, everyone else weak. (Go ahead and jump for joy if you want about minor recent improvements in Microsoft and Yahoo year-over-year growth. They're irrelevant. And they didn't come at ...
Yahoo Search To Offer Abstracts of Search Results, Determine Intent
readwriteweb.com 12/5/2008 — Next year, Yahoo will introduce new technology to augment their Yahoo Search results: abstracts of key information alongside URLs. Instead of just offering a list of links, Yahoo's search results will include machine-extracted information that is ...
Yahoo! mocks Google Privacy Theatre —
The Register 12/17/2008
Less-nonsensical anonymization Analysis The privacy gap between Yahoo! and Google is greater than you think. It's not just that Yahoo! will anonymize user search data 6 months before Google anonymizes user search data. It's that Yahoo! ...
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