Entries tagged with: yahoo
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Yahoo Promises to Revolutionize Search
Modern search has evolved greatly since those early days with long lists of links offering little to go on to determine quality or popularity. As search users have -- by and large -- become more sophisticated, we're seeing more sophisticated...
Yahoo Gallery Highlights Applications Using Yahoo API
Thanks to Yahoo and a developer named dataffect, I can now track USGS earthquake data and map it on the good ole US of A. Or I can find Long Beach hotels close to the airport, courtesy of 'cityres'....
Yahoo Unlocks Search, Mail Platforms with Yahoo Open Strategy
With its Yahoo Open Strategy, Yahoo drops its bid toward an open platform for custom application built on core elements of the web services site. As with other platform plays from Facebook and Google, Yahoo is trying to entice the...
Yahoo! Launches Shine Website for Women
Accessorized to the hilt with more than 15 major publications - like Good Housekeeping, Allure and Glamour - Yahoo! has launched Shine, a new website to serve the growing population of women online....
Mahalo Pushes Human Powered Search Results
Taking cues from Wikipedia's distributed model of 'folks-editing' but attempting to mitigate some of its inherent unpredictability with a staff of editors, Jason Calacanis of Weblogs Inc fame has recently beta-launched Mahalo -- which we presume is Polynesian for "we...
Yahoo! Gets Geeky with Open Source Project Hadoop
Tapping into its inner geek, Yahoo! has been working on an open-source grid project with Doug Cutting of Nutch and Lucene (Java-based search library and applications, etc.) fame. Distributed computing projects are all the rage these days and Yahoo! how...
Buzz Box #3: Celebrity Rehab is Hot; Creepy Baboon Spider Recovery
Vacation is in the rearview which means Buzz Box is back. Rumors about Jenna Bush are in the mix for both Yahoo! and Google's trend trackers...and tales of recovery...of both a scary spider and celebrities with addictions are also hot....
Buzz Box #2: Search Trends - Lindsay Lohan, The Scourge of Diet Soda
This week, Buzz Box watches Google Trends send Harry Potter out of the top 100 while Yahoo's Buzz Index still sees Hogwarts' bespectacled hero in its top 5, but down sharply from his dominant place last week....
WebDriven's Buzz Box on Search Trends : Harry Potter and NBA Refs
Buzz Box #1: Harry Potter, Earthquakes & NBA Refs A snapshot of search trends (Yahoo vs. Google) as we head into the weekend....
Web 3.0: Semantic Web, Scraping & Human Intelligence
With Web 2.0 -- which some have termed "web for the people" -- maturing or even (gasp!) waning, there is a good bit of discussion on what Web 3.0 might look like. One can argue whether the web in fact...
Search Engine Optimization, Part One: Audience-Focused Content
The power of search engines and the impact they can have on delivering traffic to a website has ramifications for how companies communicate with customers and employees alike. Understanding the way organic search works can give smaller companies a competitive...
iGoogle, MyYahoo: Personalized Search Battle Rages On
iGoogle, the latest from the Googlesphere in Mountain View, offers an expanded, customizable "my" personalized search page packed with lots of Google-powered (along with some non-Google) goodies....
