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Yahoo! Search Blog » Blog Archive » Five Years of Yahoo! Search
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 still in its infancy, and there are limitless ...
“Hurricane Carol” Bartz Could Announce Major Yahoo Management Reorg Next Week
“Hurricane Carol” Bartz Could Announce Major Yahoo Management Reorg Next Week
kara.allthingsd.com — Several sources inside and outside Yahoo told BoomTown that new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz could be ready to announce a major reorganization of its structure as early as next week, most likely on Wednesday. While that shift could be pushed out a ... (more) “Hurricane Carol” Bartz Could Announce Major Yahoo ...
Introducing Yahoo!(R) Mobile - Your Starting Point to the Internet
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Carol Bartz Friday Memos: Chick Flicks, the Need for Speed and WOW! (Also, Here Comes the Rerorg!)
Carol Bartz Friday Memos: Chick Flicks, the Need for Speed and WOW! (Also, Here Comes the Rerorg!)
kara.allthingsd.com — How much does BoomTown love the Friday memos that new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz sends out to the troops ? Very, very much, since they are so full of significant news–a slow-down of Yahoo’s homepage redesign and also a major limiting of ... (more) Carol Bartz Friday Memos: Chick Flicks, the Need for ...
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Yahoo! Search Turns 5, Has Tech to Show For It
ReadWriteWeb — ... In the search team's blog post about its birthday today, the three technologies listed above were highlighted, along with some other tools like the mobile OneSearch or SearchAssist - things we don't really care about to be honest. ...

Yahoo Celebrates Five Years Of In-House Search
WebProNews Feed — ... Charts post-Google progress and what's next Google became Yahoo's default search results provider on June 26th, 2000. On February 18th, 2004, Yahoo ended the deal. Now, the Sunnyvale-based company is celebrating the five-year anniversary of its decision to tackle search technology on its own. Tuoc Luong, Yahoo Search's senior vice president of search engineering, and Larry Cornett, Yahoo Search's vice president of consumer products, wrote a post on the Yahoo Search Blog discussing the past, present, and future. Since those first two timeframes are pretty well documented ...

Yahoo Search Share Rises As Google Declines
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — On the occasion of Yahoo Search's fifth anniversary , comScore has given Yahoo something to celebrate. Yahoo gained 0.5 percentage points of U.S. ...

Yahoo Search Share Rises As Google Declines
TechWeb — On the occasion of Yahoo Search's fifth anniversary , comScore has given Yahoo something to celebrate. Yahoo gained 0.5 percentage points of U.S. ...

Search Roundup: Twitter; ComScore; Yahoo; Lobbyists/AdWords
paidContent — ... —Yahoo Search turns five: It's been five years since Yahoo switched from using Google's search technology in favor of its own, and the company marked the date with a blog post recapping some highlights. Its most recent initiatives have involved letting third-parties make improvements: Yahoo BOSS opened up the core search infrastructure to developers, and SearchMonkey allowed content providers to seed the results with data beyond standard text links. And though the company has been mired in separate struggles with both Google and Microsoft, the look ...

The Little Engine That Could? Yahoo Paid Search Adds Video and Pictures, Trying for More Clicks
BoomTown — ... Yesterday, Yahoo celebrated the fifth anniversary of the launch of its own search engine with some good news about its market share and by jazzing up its paid listings today with a plan to now include pictures and video. ...

Yahoo! Search celebrates 5 years!
D' Technology Weblog — Yahoo! Search completed its five year’s of launch. Since then, they’ve introduced a host of new features to their search engine, vastly improved the relevance of both algorithmic and sponsored results. Yahoo! highlighted following milestones: ...

News Bits: Yahoo Spruces Up Search
Contentinople: — ... that blends images and video along with user search results. Introduced five years after Yahoo launched its search business , the new offering, called Rich Ads in Search, effectively blends the company's strength in display advertising with its paid search business. Yahoo is charging advertisers monthly for their participation, rather than tying the price to auction rates, as is typically done with paid search ads. So far, the company has also limited participation in the program to large brand advertisers -- SoBe, Pepsi, and Home Depot -- that aren't necessarily looking ...

Weekly Wrapup: Mobile World Congress, Yahoo Search, Internet in Cars, And More...
ReadWriteWeb — ... It was 5 years ago today that Yahoo! stopped using Google to power its searches and started using its own search technology, the company wrote today in a blog post. Everyone knows that things aren't looking good for Yahoo! in business terms, and the company's search and advertising market shares look even worse. But you know what deserves some celebration on this 5th birthday? The search team's work on some really cool search related technologies. ...

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