Yahoo News Drops Blog Search
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Yahoo News Drops Blog Search In what almost marks the one year anniversary of Yahoo adding blog search to its Yahoo News search results, Yahoo has mysteriously taken its blog search area out of the news game. Besides the deletion of blog search results from Yahoo News (not to be confused with blogs indexed in the Yahoo [...]
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Yahoo Search Index Update Like Google&#8217;s backlink update, Yahoo also updated its search technology today with a Yahoo Search Index Update. The announcement was made on the Yahoo Search Blog, which also includes an invitation to join in the Yahoo Site Explorer Forum. As usual, you&#8217;ll see some changes in ranking along with what is in the [...]
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Blog: Microsoft has dropped its "Get the Facts" website, but the replacement isn't much better.
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Over on the Rojo blog  Chris writes:  "Thanks very much to Steve Gillmor for alerting us to a bug in how we, and other aggregators, were parsing New York Times RSS feeds. In short, stories older than 7 days or so were linking to abstracts of the articles, not the full articles themselves. This is something we will fix. Steve speculated that perhaps the "Times doesn't want server-based aggregators such as Bloglines and Rojo to consistently allow permalink access beyond seven days." Fortunately we don't see any evidence of that and in fact believe NYT has done a great job in making their content available via RSS, particularly by including a specific "partner" parameter on the URL for RSS aggr ...
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Well, Murphy&#8217;s Law kicked in this afternoon, and after attempting to disable comments on the original 2006 SEJ Search Blogs Awards post, the entire thing disappeared. Thin air. Poof. Houdini action. We&#8217;re all hoping that Matt Cutts can grab us a cached version of the original page that is newer than this one, but in the event [...]
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After just two months in testing, Yahoo has pushed its local search out of beta and is giving the service prominent exposure on the Yahoo home page.
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Stop looking at Yahoo!'s paper, Google.
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and who is MBL, DIGG and what-not anyway?Â  The MyBlogLog hype is pretty much over by now it is also not everything as peachy with them as it used to be. The issues with the security holes that were uncovered and theÂ banning of the user from the Network that uncovered them, privacy issues about data collected [...]
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Blames its out-saucer Yahoo was left mumbling apologies in multiple languages this week after it emerged that it had lifted curry recipes from the blog of an Indian housewife.â¦
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Blog: The arrival of the Yahoo Photos horde has disrupted the statistical popularity contests on display at the Flickr camera finder site.
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Yahoo Search is currently doing limited testing on a new multimedia, multi-content driven search shortcut, which is powered by its content partners, Yahoo Local and Yahoo Travel.  Some searchers will find that when they search for information on major cities, a Y! Travel shortcut will be served above the organic and sponsored Yahoo Search results.  The [...]
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Search Engine of Choice by the Search Companies  Recently there was a blog entry that came out named What Search Engines Do Search Engine Companies Use? over at Inside Google. It was that blog entry that sprung a topic of discussion over at Search Engine Watch forums named Should Yahoo employees ...
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There have been reports around the Internet today about Yahoo Search Marketing canceling the Overture Keyword Selector Tool, which has been a staple of Keyword planning and search marketing for almost a decade. Feeling that part of the search marketing world, and the tools dependent upon it, had been buried; I addressed concerns with the Yahoo [...]
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Yahoo will shut down one of its two photo-sharing sites, and focus all its efforts on its other photo-sharing site, Flickr.
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MSN Search Beta Not Ranking MSN Search Blog  Ok, I lied in the title of the thread (original title was "penalizing MSN Search Blog"), but it did get you to click over from your RSS feed aggregator, didn't it? ;) But there is some truth to this title, MSN Search Beta ...
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Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Press Release Services For Links Or Publicity - How To Optimize For Large Retail Sites - MSN Dumb Decision on Unrelevant Links - Important SEO Tips from Pubcon - Yahoo! Cuts Deal With Newspaper Groups, and more.
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Yahoo will announce plans to lay off hundreds of its 14,000 employees as the&#160;faltering Internet giant&#160;continues trying to snap out of its financial funk and fine tune its business strategies, several media outlets are reporting.Yahoo will let go hundreds of staffers as part of its ongoing efforts to improve its profitability and compete against Google, Facebook, MySpace and others, according to articles in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal that cited anonymous sources.However, the Journal said that Yahoo will hire new employees in other areas and that it plans to finish the year with about the same amount of employees it had at the end of 2007.If Yahoo does in fact keep its headcount at last year&#39;s level, then the layoffs will probably be seen as a rebalancing of staff and less as a sign of financial distress at the company.A Yahoo spokeswoman contacted by IDG News Service declined to comment about layoff plans but said in an e-mailed statement that, as part of its multiyear transformation plan, the company plans to &quot;invest in some areas, reduce emphasis in others, and eliminate some areas of the business,&quot; based on its priorities.&quot;Yahoo continues to attract and hire talent against the company&#39;s key initiatives to create long-term stockholder value,&quot; she said on Tuesday.Yahoo is still deciding the extent of the layoffs and the areas that will be affected, and it will likely announce concrete plans to reduce staff next Tuesday when it issues its fourth-quarter earnings report, the Times and the Journal reported.Whatever ends up happening with the reported staff cuts, it&#39;s undeniable that Yahoo is still very much in reorganization and recovery mode.Once viewed as a dominant provider of online advertising and consumer Internet services, Yahoo has in recent years looked out of sync with the latest technical innovations and business opportunities. For starters, it let Google run away with the market for Internet search and advertising, and failed to develop a leading social-networking site, letting MySpace and Facebook capitalize on that opportunity. Yahoo also largely missed the online video revolution, which Google latched on to with its YouTube acquisition.Along the way, its sales and profits have been disappointing for the past two years, leading to several management shakeups in late 2006 and 2007.By far, the most dramatic happened in June, when co-founder Jerry Yang took over as CEO and chairman from Terry Semel. At the time, Susan Decker, former chief financial officer and head of Yahoo&#39;s advertiser and publisher group, became president.A week after Semel&#39;s demotion to non-executive chairman, Yahoo combined its search and display advertising sales teams in the U.S. It was an attempt to extend the company&#39;s long-standing, core display advertising client relationships to the pay-per-click business, which generates about 40 percent of the industry&#39;s online advertising and is dominated by Google.In August, Yahoo again shook up its top management ranks when it announced that its top sales executive would leave and that a new global sales organization had been created.In December 2006, Semel had rolled out a major reorganization, creating three main business units to focus on Yahoo&#39;s key customer segments: consumers, advertisers and publishers. At the time, Semel also announced that Dan Rosensweig, then chief operating officer, would leave the company.That reorganization was preceded by a widely publicized internal memo that was leaked to the media in November and came to be known as the Peanut Butter Manifesto. In the scathing memo, Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo&#39;s senior vice president of communications and communities, called for a major reorganization, saying the company lacked &quot;a focused, cohesive vision&quot; that had made it &quot;reactive&quot; and eager to be &quot;everything to everyone.&quot;Since the uproar over the Peanut Butter Manifesto and the ensuing shakeups, Yahoo has seen quite a few changes in its upper management ranks. In addition to Semel&#39;s demotion and Rosensweig&#39;s departure, also gone are Wenda Harris Millard, who was chief sales officer, and Chief Technology Officer Farzad Nazem. In June, The New York Times reported that, in addition to these executives, at least 17 others at vice president level or higher had left Yahoo since the December 2006 reorganization.&#160;