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Yahoo! offers More Search Features

Monday, September 7th, 2009

After Yahoo’s deal with Microsoft regarding the search outsourcing, Yahoo is still making news in proving that they still in online search circle. Coming to its users, Yahoo offers new user interface changes to its search results.

One thing noticeable of these changes is Yahoo’s three-column design template. Actually, this isn’t the first time for a search company to offer three-column search page. In June 2007, Ask 3D introduced this kind of template but decided to pull it out after a year. Early in May, Google released the same template through the feature ‘Show Option.’ And on the last weeks of May, Bing offered their own three-column design.

Also featured on this Yahoo’s latest design, its left-most column is where you can find other add-ons such as search applications, site filters, data filters and assistance.

The Google feature ‘Show More Results’ is a cool thing similar to Yahoo’s newest ‘Site Filters.’ Yahoo’s version is more kind of consistent and is easier to find on the search page.

Also, Yahoo offers results from social network sites which is a pretty helpful piece of add-on. The ‘Search Assist’ feature help users to refine their searches. ‘Real Concepts’, another added feature of Yahoo’s newest template, uses the concept of drill down to provide more helpful results.

Another cool application is Yahoo’s calculator. Of course, the site offered this before but this time, it offers an actual image of the calculator that lets you do the mathematics like the usual. Plus, the Magic Eight Ball and the new Search Pad makes the site more user-friendly.

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Yahoo imitating Twitter?

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Twitter is just so popular today. Millions of people around the globe are getting hooked with this micro-blogging tool so every company in the internet field is eyeing Twitter to be part of their assets, or to make similar applications.

This is something the tech world is seeing Yahoo. After a series of actions to promote and develop its internet-based services, who would not notice its similarities or inclination with the most popular social tool today - Twitter?

Check these services that Yahoo launched this year. Realizing the efforts of coming up with these projects, you’ll find out that Yahoo has something with Twitter.

Take a note of Yahoo Meme, a Twitter-like tool first launched in Portuguese version and has its Spanish counterpart today. This service is so much similar with Twitter, you can post updates thru texts, video or photos.

Another one is the TweetNews which utilizes Twitter to re-rank Yahoo’s latest search results. Yahoo’s Home Page also features another Twitter-like application where you can post messages to your account. Even Yahoo’s most popular property, Yahoo Mail, added its newest feature where you can update your status inside Yahoo Mail.

Other Yahoo-based services with Twitter inclination include Know Your Mojo and Important People.
As Yahoo puts it, they are just trying to be more social this year.

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Yahoo! redesigns Delicious.com

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Delicious.com, the oldest social bookmarking alive today, has just gotten better!

Yahoo! recently announced its series of upgrades conducted to Delicious giving it new features that users will surely love! Today, Delicious’s service is more relevant and useful!

From now on, all online marketers and those involved in SEOs will appreciate more being bookmarked with Delicious ‘Popular’ page. Even regular users will surely appreciate the new upgrades on Delicious.

Today, Delicious provides a new take on bookmarks with new sharing features and improved functions on searching. It has the Twitter-based Fresh Bookmarks where you can find the number related Tweets on a particular bookmarked page. This replaces the older version of the ‘Popular Bookmarks’ which is the default page of Delicious.

Though the new home page is much more effective, this could also be the reason why some users may opt to use the older version since they are used in using the service. But this is not possible. Hopefully, Delicious will take this into consideration. They could put additional option to users to choose between the new homepage and the older one.

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New Yahoo! Homepage is now in Mobile!

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

After the release of the new Yahoo! homepage, the site now opened its door to mobile browsers. Yahoo!’s newest homepage, which is more on personalization, is also integrated on its mobile counterpart.

The noticeable part of the mobile version of the Yahoo! homepage is the site’s categories – Today, My Favorites and All Sites. The two categories, Today and All Sites are all Yahoo!-sponsored sites while My Favorites is like your personal dashboard where you can insert your own choices of buttons. This is similar to the PC site where you can see your own tabs on the left side.

Though the personal touch of the new Yahoo! site is now incorporated on its mobile version, you’re My Favorites tabs on the PC site are not yet installed if you’re about to view on the mobile site.
In anyways, the new Yahoo! mobile site is truly personal-oriented site where you can own the homepage and add up your favorites!

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Yahoo! Improves Local Shortcut

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Yahoo! now gave an amazing power to searchers to get the most on their searches. With Yahoo!’s improved Local Shortcut, businesses can now assure that their customers and would-be customers can get the feedbacks on their services and products and eventually, gave them the direction to visit their location.

Yahoo!’s new Local Shortcut expands its former ability. Now, searchers can not just check how many reviews or ratings a particular establishment has, they can actually read the whole text of these reviews and even get to see other details such as photos and directions to the establishment.

This new service will eventually be improved as Yahoo! close the deal with Microsoft which will provide more information to particular establishments. Truly, Yahoo!’s continuous improvements gave both the consumers and businesses the advantage of using their site.

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Yahoo’s newest Homepage is Personal!

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Yahoo! is continuously improving its site. Recently, Yahoo! released its newest homepage that is to attract more readers and visitors. With others competing on the same genre, Yahoo! is gearing up to match their competitors.

Yahoo! redesigns its homepage and makes it more user-friendly and easily customisable. So much to say, it is personal!

The site is, on first glance, less cluttered. So relaxing it may seem, it still holds the same amount of information it used to have. Yahoo! certainly gives the best homepage so far.

Buttons and modules are lesser on the new version while search is more prominent. Yahoo! properties situated on the left side of the old version are now in a customisable menu which can be turn into an RSS reader. Users can add or remove widgets or applications from third party sites.

Yahoo! also created a wide range of widgets for launch and is accepting users’ suggestions so long as it has RSS capability. Third party developers are also expected to add more in the future.

The My Favorite Section also allows users to get a smaller window as screenshot of that particular third-party site. Users can even interact with that window, for example, if the site is for Twitter or Facebook.

The news on the homepage can also be adjusted on the user’s mood or type – from fun to to serious by just sliding the scale!

The new homepage will also be applied to mobile soon and will be first available to US followed by UK, India, France and other countries.

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Yahoo to sell HotJobs and Small Business?

Friday, July 31st, 2009

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To stay in the business, Yahoo! is trying to focus on things where they get more revenue and upgrade these while trying to sell others that are not doing great for the company.

Yahoo! has been partnering and dealing with lots of companies to keep its status in the market. Just recently, it partners with AT&T for advertisement displays for small business advertising. This good deal will certainly help Yahoo!

HotJobs, on the other hand, is not doing great. Though it is also known that even with newspapers, this part in there is also declining in terms of revenue, HotJobs can be a big burden to Yahoo! if they will continue to handle this. According to reports, HotJobs was acquired by Yahoo! back in 2001 for $436.

Yahoo! Small Business is Yahoo!’s asset. It is one of the biggest in webhosting firms in the SMB market. It still provides revenue to the company that’s why it’s still unbelievable that Yahoo! is planning to sell this asset. Also, Yahoo! just got a deal with AdReady for SMBs to easily create their own ads which will run on Yahoo! network. With this step, it’s unimaginable that the company is ready to give up Small Business to others.

Whatever the plans of Yahoo! for its affiliates, Yahoo! still has the say on which to stay and which to give up. Maybe they have their own studies that in the coming years, they certainly don’t have the power to control that market and should be given to the leading ones.

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A deal between Microsoft and Yahoo?

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

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Though Microsoft has not yet comment on any of the rumors spreading over the techy world that the company has been setting meetings with Yahoo! for possible partnerships, there are practically more reasons to speculate that there are really dealings that are set to be closed.

News circulating in the cyberspace says that top Microsoft executives leave their headquarters down to Silicon Valley to discuss some of the dealings with Yahoo!

Reports say that the dealings may include the possible sold out of Microsoft’s search advertising business to Yahoo! Search to take the lead in selling premium advertising to various companies.

Also, according to some tests, Google, Yahoo! and Bing’s search results are comparably different from each other but the gap between Yahoo! and Bing becomes evidently closer as the results are almost the same. This will provide the two search engines yield more search advertising partnerships.

Well, these are still speculations though tests and experiments gave us positive conclusions.

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