According to Yahoo!, Microsoft teamed up with Carl Icahn with an offer to acquire the battered company’s flagship search engine on Friday night, under the condition that Yahoo! accept the deal within 24 hours.
Yahoo CEO and founder Jerry Yang sent an e-mail to employees warning them of the pending mess and offered a Q&A:
Subject: over [...]
A Google Inc. executive defended the company’s proposed search advertising partnership with Yahoo Inc. in prepared congressional testimony released Monday, contesting the prevalent notion that it will only expand the market leader’s already considerable influence.
On June 12, Yahoo said it would run advertisements supplied by Google alongside search query results as part of a four-year [...]
Yahoo on Tuesday unveiled a new bookmarking tool for cell phones that lets people keep track of favorite Web content–news feeds, search results, Web sites–from one place on their handheld.
The technology, called Yahoo OnePlace, will be available in the second quarter of 2008, according to Yahoo.
The tool builds on other new mobile applications from Yahoo. [...]
“We’re in the game, and we’re the little engine that could, just working away, working away, working away,” Ballmer told interviewer and former Apple employee and evangelist Guy Kawasaki. “In online, yeah, it’s Google, Google, Google. I’d say we’re the underdog.” That’s a far cry from as recently as last year, when Ballmer called Google [...]
Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined the board of the OpenID Foundation, the organisation set up to facilitate access to multiple online services with a single username and password.
The move follows Yahoo! last month announcing that its accountholders would be able to use any web site supporting OpenID without creating a separate username [...]
The Yahoo! OpenID (beta) which was announced earlier this month has just been launched. You can try it out right away.
This is expected to move the OpenID movement ahead considerably. All 250 million members of Yahoo are now able to log in to any website, not just Yahoo, that supports OpenID 2.0.
At this moment you [...]
If the internet has proven anything, it’s that you don’t have to be big to beat the best. That may very well be the mantra of Proximic, a 14-man German startup that is looking to take down Google’s AdSense.
While others focus on beating Google at search, Proximic hopes to beat AdSense by syndicating product listings [...]
Having to remember different passwords to sign onto various Web sites is a major annoyance in the Internet age.
On Thursday, a project aimed at ending the inconvenience by enabling a common log-in got a big boost when Yahoo Inc. unveiled plans to test the system starting Jan. 30.
The Sunnyvale company’s support gives the project, called [...]
For those who don’t know here is a way how you can check backlinks for a domain in Google, Yahoo and MSN
For Google type in link:domain.com in the search bar.
For Yahoo use: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
For MSN type in linkdomain:domain.com in the search bar.
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Yahoo! has re-done the Yahoo mobile home page soon after launching Go 3.0, Yahoo! wants to become the essential starting point for the mobile Internet (mobile search) - Like the Google Home Page has been to search. (Last time I checked it still had the message: “We are putting the finishing touches on some exiting [...]