Yahoo adds photos, tweets to news search
Yahoo is adding more context to news searches, bringing photos, videos, and even tweets into its search results page. Searchers on Yahoo–who are dwindling–will find new results for newsy events Thursday, when Yahoo launches new tabs on the Yahoo News Shortcut. You’ve long been able to find links to news stories about a given search [...]
Yahoo, Microsoft finalize search deal
Yahoo and Microsoft have finalized their agreement to install Microsoft as the exclusive search provider for Yahoo’s network of sites, the companies announced Friday. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer first approved a search deal in July, but the matter took a little extra time to complete. (Credit: Yahoo/Microsoft) The deal, first [...]
Yahoo brings Facebook Connect into its sites
Yahoo is bringing Facebook into just about all of its Web sites, allowing users to update their Facebook status and share news items with friends right from the Yahoo page. The company announced the integration of Facebook Connect across several key Yahoo Web sites including Mail, News, Sports, and Finance. The idea is to drive [...]
Michael Jackson tops Google, Yahoo search in 2009
The death of Michael Jackson in June launched a frenzy of Web activity and propelled the late pop star to the top of the search charts for 2009. That’s the word from Google, Yahoo, and Bing, all of which have revealed their popular search terms for the past year. It’s not too shocking to see [...]
Download Yahoo Messenger 10 Final
Yahoo has just released the final version of its new instant messenger client Yahoo Messenger 10.0.0.1102. The latest version comes after a beta period of more than two months. The Yahoo dev team has been working on getting it to release quality and the final build comes with a lot of bug fixes and stability-related [...]