Posts Tagged with ‘Yahoo!’

Recently I have noticed an interesting thing in the traffic stats for Profy. Specifically I have started to notice people arriving from Google (mostly) and some other search engines after they do a search for a single word - “internet”. And since I always find it amusing when people google “Google” to get the same link they are actually on (and yes, Google is quite a popular search term) I thought that googling “internet” was equally amusing. After all, what [...]

It seems that everyone has already grown accustomed to the idea of search engines market completely dominated by Google. But at the Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo Satya Nadella, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Search, Portal and Advertising Platform Group, has made a statement showing that at least the software giant sees a possibility to change the situation. And the change is in the field of better user experience based on behavioral targeting and semantic search technologies. Currently the [...]

Yahoo Buzz was launched back in February for a select group of publishers that were manually added to the system by Yahoo’s team (they started with 100 and eventually reached 400 publishers). While absolutely anyone with a Yahoo account could submit stories from the supported publishers and vote them up or down, it was not possible to submit a story if it did not originate from one of those supported publishers.
The main incentive for publishers was that every day some [...]

Yahoo! has just informed subscribers to corporate newsletter of the newly available “privacy choice for consumers”. This basically means that from the end of August we will be able to opt-out of customized advertising on yahoo.com if we believe it invades our privacy.
Actually Yahoo! had an opt-out available to users even before today: users could opt out of customized ads served by Yahoo! on third-party networks.
Today’s announcement expands this approach further and comes as a part of Yahoo! response to [...]

It looks like the Olympic Games is a focus of everyone’s attention anyway so I decided to collect the special themed Olympic logos on some of the websites - well, those I have managed to find myself. They are not numerous so I suspect that not every web compny can afford such things for every special even. Google is definitely leading the game since the internet giant seems to produce a new logo for every important event - this is [...]

The speculations about what HP, Intel and Yahoo are supposed to announce this morning started after a post on Techcrunch yesterday inviting the readers to guess what the announcement will be. It was obvious that it will be some research initiative for processing of large volumes of information but of course we could only guess.
Now we have the clarity - the three giants will be working on a joint initiative to research the potential of cloud computing. The [...]

Anyone else tired of "breaking" Yahoo/Microsoft news? The New York Times is reporting that Yahoo has issued yet another infamous statement rejecting another offer from Steve Ballmer and his new best friend Carl Icahn. As usual, Yahoo held an emergency board meeting, "evaluated" the offer, and issued a statement to the media.
Don't they teach Negotiations 101 in business school anymore?
Even the youngest child knows that when you get an offer you don't like, you offer something else in response. It's [...]

We wrote about Evri earlier this week and how it falls short of the mark on being a valid semantic search tool. Now Microsoft is jumping into the quest for true semantic search by purchasing Powerset and lumping it under the Microsoft Live Search umbrella.
Microsoft has made no secret of its great desire to be more of a presence on the web in recent months. It has continued a torrid on-again, off-again affair with the idea of buying Yahoo (recently [...]

I was excited to try out Evri, the new "semantic" search engine on the block. Usually our author Cyndy gets more excited about semantic web applications than I do. I'm ever hopeful of finding one that truly works and becoming sold on the whole idea of a semantic web, though.
Sadly, I must continue to hold out hope for true semantic web. Evri, while attractive in appearance and very pleasant to surf, is not the semantic web search answer I was [...]