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Search Engine Basics

Posted on October 27, 2009. Filed under: Google, SEO, Social Network, Twitter, Web 3.0, Yahoo | Tags: |

As the Internet started to grow and became an integral part of day-to-day work, it became almost impossible for a user to fetch the exact or relevant information from such a huge web.
This is the main reason why ‘Search Engines’ were developed. Search engines became so popular that now more than 80% of web-site visitors [...]

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Yahoo Buys Full Page Front Page Ad in TOI

Posted on October 5, 2009. Filed under: Yahoo | Tags: , , |

India’s largest English-language newspaper, the Times of India, has an interesting print edition front page today – a huge yellow advertisement for Yahoo’s It’s You campaign first announced last month. You can view the print version here.
The newspaper’s circulation as of 2008 was 3.14 million, making it the largest selling English-language daily newspaper (here’s the [...]

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Yahoo Meme: Microblogging Service

Posted on September 2, 2009. Filed under: Yahoo | Tags: , |

Not with much show off, a soft announcement of yahoo on micro blogging is ‘Yahoo Meme.
Yahoo Meme is now in English earlier it was launched in Spanish and Portugeese. This service is currently in an Invite only mode. At yahoo Meme users can easily create the account after receiving invitation and in turn will get [...]

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Yahoo Acquires Arab Internet Portal Maktoob

Posted on August 25, 2009. Filed under: Business, Social Network, Yahoo | Tags: , , |

Yahoo has just officially acquired Maktoob, a very popular Arabic web portal that offers services including search, payments, social network, and auctions. Rumors of an aquisition have been building for months, and in the last hour they reached a head as news of an impending press conference broke. The price hasn’t been announced, but [...]

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Advanced Q&A from SMX Advanced

Posted on August 24, 2009. Filed under: Google, SEO, Social Network, Technology, Twitter, Yahoo | Tags: , , , , |

Earlier this summer SMX Advanced landed once again in our fair city—Seattle—and it was indeed advanced. I got a number of questions at some Q&A panels that I had to go back and do a little research on. Here, as promised, are answers:
Q. We hear that Google’s now doing a better job of indexing Flash [...]

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Google Adds More Options To Image Search

Posted on August 3, 2009. Filed under: Google, Yahoo | Tags: , , , |

Image search is an area of intense competition between Google, Yahoo, and now Bing. Today, Google Images added some search options to make it easier to filter a search by color, type (face, photo, clip art, line drawing), and file size.
Most of these filters were available before in advanced search, but now they are [...]

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New Yahoo Home Page Tomorrow

Posted on July 21, 2009. Filed under: Technology, Yahoo | Tags: , |

Remember that new Yahoo home page we previewed waaaay back in September 2008? Tomorrow it will go live for many U.S. users, and it will eventually roll out to everyone who uses Yahoo around the world. France, India and the UK are next up after the U.S.
The final version looks a little more like one [...]

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Yahoo Search Pad Is About To Launch To The Public

Posted on July 7, 2009. Filed under: Google, Technology, Yahoo | Tags: , , |

Tomorrow night Yahoo is planning to unleash Search Pad, a note-taking tool integrated with the search engine, to the masses. The company first showed off the product last February, but until now it hasn’t been available for public consumption. The new feature will go live to the general public tomorrow night at 9 PM, PST.
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YouTube Mobile Uploads Up 400% Since iPhone 3GS Launch

Posted on June 26, 2009. Filed under: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Technology, Yahoo, YouTube | Tags: , , , , , |

If there was any question about the significance of the iPhone 3GS’s impressive video functionality, here’s your answer: YouTube reports that in the six days since the iPhone 3GS was released last week, the number of mobile uploads has increased by a whopping 400%. For a single phone model to have such a major impact [...]

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Yahoo Homepage Spotted In The Wild

Posted on June 26, 2009. Filed under: Technology, Yahoo | Tags: , , , |

With all the chatter about Yahoo’s impending roll-out of a completely overhauled brand – see Techmeme for more – this particular tip that landed in our inbox last night definitely caught our attention.
TechCrunch reader Bradley Scott Shoemaker checks in with us to tell us this new Yahoo homepage turned up when visiting the portal using [...]

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