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Yahoo! Search Blog: Gluing Together the Best Content on the Web
Yahoo! Search Blog: Gluing Together the Best Content on the Web
You may have heard about our experimental visual display of search results on Yahoo! India, called Glue™ Pages . Tonight we're launching a similar, but slightly different experience in the U.S. with Yahoo! Glue™ beta . This newest iteration is a standalone experience focused on assembling useful ...
Yahoo! Glue - all you need, all in one place.
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Breaking: Yahoo finally sells Kelkoo and brings cash in
techcrunch.com — The rumor has been going on for some time now, but we are hearing that Yahoo just... sold its comparison price service Kelkoo to a UK based private equity firm. The news has been broken by ex-Kelkoo co founder, Pierre Chappaz and a copy of the internal ... (more) Breaking: Yahoo finally sells Kelkoo and brings cash in
Is Yahoo done with search? [Exits]
Is Yahoo done with search? [Exits]
valleywag.com — 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 ... (more) Is Yahoo done with search? [Exits]
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Yahoo Glues Together Relevancy
WebProNews Feed — ... . Julie Demsey at the Yahoo Search Blog explains : We're starting with a limited set of topics (more will be added over time), pulling together content from the best places on the Web onto one Yahoo! Glue page. These pages are built using an algorithm that automatically places the most relevant modules on a page, giving you a visually rich, diverse page all about the topic in which you're interested... For those that may be wondering, our intention with Yahoo! Glue beta is not to replace the Yahoo! Search experience in the US. We're always challenging ourselves to explore ...

Yahoo brings its Glue to the U.S.
Webware.com — ... Yahoo rolled out a U.S. beta version of its Glue Pages, giving a visual boost to users' search results, according to a posting on its Yahoo blog site. The beta is designed to allow users to enter a search and have not only text links appear on the site, but also related pictures, videos and blogs. The company is taking a page from its Yahoo India Glue Pages site, which it unveiled in May. With this effort, Yahoo is seeking to put related content all on one page, while its competitor Google currently offers up text ...

Yahoo! Glue Is Like Mahalo Lite, Without The Jason Calacanis Fireworks
Podcasting News — Yahoo! has introduced an new search site, Yahoo! Glue, that promises to “glue together the best content on the web”: We’re starting with a limited set of topics (more will be added over time), pulling together content from the best places on the Web onto one Yahoo! Glue™ page. These pages are built using an algorithm that automatically places the most relevant modules on a page, giving you a visually rich, diverse page all about the topic in which you’re interested. To see it in action, check out ...

For Real: Whither Yahoo?
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — It’s only natural after all of this year’s upheavals at Yahoo to have to wonder what’s next for the search giant—and you have to wonder if the board itself is thinking the same thing. While Yahoo continues to make efforts in search, including bringing Glue pages to the US and winning T-Mobile’s mobile search contract, speculation is flying thick and fast that one way or another, Yahoo’s getting out of the business of search. Not helping things for Yahoo is the departure of Yahoo’s VP of Web Search ...

Yahoo Glue Now Available in US, Sells Kelkoo
John Battelle's Searchblog — ... Two news items from Yahoo: Glue, the content mix'n'matcher first tested in India, is now available in the US (though in a more limited form). And Yahoo has written off ...

Product Pulse - November 21, 2008
Yodel Anecdotal — ... search that sticks text, images, and video content together into a single results page. It’s now a U.S. import, available as a slightly different experience as Yahoo! Glue beta. It assembles content from across the Web into a veritable microsite about your query. Topics are limited for now (we’ll expand over time), but go check out how it handles popular people, places and things like cupcakes, Sarah Palin, Twilight, and Citigroup. More here. Feel-good news: Recession, deflation, layoffs, bank meltdowns. ...

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