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Yahoo! Fires Yet Another CEO – What Next?
16th May 2012
In a move that might not come as a shock to most industry observers, Yahoo! has fired yet another CEO. Scott Thompson, who was appointed CEO only in January, has been fired after his résumé was found to be “misleading”. More »
Yahoo! – Bing Search Alliance Closes In On Google
4th April 2012
The Yahoo! Bing search alliance which has been trying to catch up with the Google search engine has shown a substantial growth in the first quarter of 2012. More »
Yahoo! Finally Gets Smarter Search
22nd March 2012
Yahoo! has undergone several changes in the last few years to tide over the rough patch that they are going through. They have recently added some new features to their search platform. More »
Bing Overtakes Yahoo! Search Share
10th February 2012
comScore has released the search share figures for the month of January 2012 for the U.S. market. According to their analysis, Bing has now taken a lead over Yahoo! in the search share. More »
UK Search Spend Up 19%
20th January 2012
Search spend in has increased year-on-year by 14% in the USA and 19% in the UK, according to a new report on the state of digital marketing. More »
Microsoft And Yahoo! Search Alliance Creeps Forward In UK
16th January 2012
The Microsoft – Yahoo! search alliance has been functional in the U.S. for some time, and they now intend to expand ad testing to Europe as well. More »
Will The New CEO Change Yahoo!’s Fortunes
7th January 2012
Yahoo! has been going through a rather rough patch for a long time now, and in an effort to turn around their fortunes the company has changed CEOs repeatedly. More »
The Most Popular Mobile Websites Of 2011
23rd December 2011
Opera Software has recently released their last report for the year 2011, ranking the 10 most popular websites on mobile. More »
The New Delicious: Tastier Or Just Bland?
28th September 2011
Once popular social bookmarking website, Delicious, was shut down a while ago after Yahoo! sold it to Avos Systems, a company created by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. The site is now back, with a new, revamped look. More »
Google Willing To Pay Big Money For Hulu
8th September 2011
Several companies including the likes of Amazon, Yahoo! and Dish Network have put in bids to buy over Hulu. Google is the latest to join the bidding war and rumour has it that Google’s willing to outbid them all. More »
Bye Bye Bartz
7th September 2011
In what may be a surprise to many, Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz has been booted out the door by the independent directors of the company. More »
Harry Potter Search Mania
22nd July 2011
The last movie of the popular Harry Potter series was released recently, and this has led to search mania on the subject. More »
Google Peaks UK Market Share
18th July 2011
The latest report released by Hitwise reveals that Google Search has crossed all its previous records as far as market share in the U.K. is concerned. More »
Yahoo! Site Explorer To Shut Down Soon
13th July 2011
Yahoo! has recently announced that they have decided to shut down one of their popular SEO tools Yahoo! Site Explorer. More »
Yahoo! Is Huge, Yet, Very Few Love It
14th June 2011
A lot of press coverage and online buzz is continuously generated surrounding the growth of sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google. In the resulting melee, Yahoo! seems to have been forgotten. More »
Gender Greatly Influences Content Of Tweets
13th June 2011
Until recently, no one had studied how the gender of a user determined the subject of their tweets on the popular social network, Twitter. More »
Schema.org Unites Three Search Giants
6th June 2011
The three major search engines, Google, Bing and Yahoo! have decided to come together for a common purpose. They have jointly introduced a collection of HTML tags called schemas, which will help webmasters to markup HTML pages in order to improve their website optimisation. More »
Mobile Email Access Increases 81%
18th May 2011
The growing popularity of smartphones and other devices such as the iPad have affected the way users access their email in a big way. More »
Teenagers Blissfully Unaware Of Osama Bin Laden
4th May 2011
The death of Osama Bin laden on Sunday has resulted in a renewal of interest in him. However, according to the Yahoo! Search Blog, teenagers seem to be quite unaware of who he is. More »
Digital Commerce In The USA In 2010
9th February 2011
A report from comScore indicates that the e-commerce industry recovered well in 2010. The total spend on e-commerce in the U.S.A. was $227.6billion during the course of last year. More »
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