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AOL Ranked Top US Ad Network
22nd January 2010
According to data released by comScore, AOL Advertising was the top ad network in the USA in December 2009. ComScore’s reasearch results show that AOL Advertising had access to 187 million U.S. Internet users. More »
Microsoft Plans To Make Hay While Google Battles China
20th January 2010
Following Google’s recent declaration that the search engine might pull out of China if it is not allowed to show uncensored search results, the spotlight has also fallen on rival, Microsoft, who has also started operations in China. More »
Yahoo! To Integrate With Facebook
3rd December 2009
Yahoo! has announced that by the first half of 2010, they will integrate all their properties with Facebook via Facebook Connect. More »
Yahoo! Gets Real Time News Updates
23rd November 2009
Earlier this month we had news that Yahoo! was experimenting with real time search. Now, Yahoo! has officially integrated with Twitter and is featuring results from the micro-blogging platform for hot news topics. More »
Most Time Spent Online Is On Microsoft Sites
11th November 2009
A new report from comScore measuring spent by users on various Internet sites found that Microsoft is way ahead of the pack. More »
Yahoo! Experiments With Real Time Search
9th November 2009
With both Microsoft and then Google announcing individual deals that give them access to real time information on Twitter, Yahoo! cannot afford to be left behind in the race. More »
GeoCities Closed For Good
29th October 2009
Yahoo! has permanently closed down their property, GeoCities, as of the 26th of October 2009. More »
Four Billion Photos On Flickr
14th October 2009
Yahoo!’s popular photo sharing site Flickr continues to grow in popularity, leaving Google Picasa far behind. Only last Saturday, the 12th of October 2009, one of Flickr’s users posted the 4 billionth photo on the site. More »
Can Social Media Overtake Search Engines?
13th October 2009
It has been noticed of late that more and more people are turning to social media instead of the usual portals or search engines when they want to find out something online. More »
Yahoo! Makes Search Ads Mobile
2nd October 2009
With the number of mobile web users increasing at such a great speed, it definitely makes good business sense for Internet service providers to start serving up ads on mobile phones, and that is exactly what Yahoo! has already started doing. More »
Mobile Websites Fail To Impress
22nd September 2009
A study of 27 prominent mobile websites, conducted by the Yankee Group has shown that most of these sites deliver results that are far from satisfactory. In fact, it was found that on a scale of 1 – 100, the average score achieved was just 52. More »
100 Billion Searches A Month And Still None The Wiser
3rd September 2009
A study of the global search market undertaken by comScore recently found that over 113 billion searches were carried out online in July 2009. More »
Yahoo! Tests New Search Interface
28th August 2009
Now that both the leading search engines Google and Microsoft have made innovations to the way their search results are presented, it was only a matter of time before Yahoo! did the same thing. More »
Microsoft-Yahoo! Finally Strike A Deal
29th July 2009
Microsoft and Yahoo! have been in talks with each other for a possible partnership for ages now, but they have finally reached a mutually acceptable agreement. More »
Google Annihilates Microsoft, Yahoo! In Mobile
8th July 2009
If Global Stats from StatCounter are to be believed, Microsoft and Yahoo! might as well pack their bags and say goodbye to mobile search, because Google reportedly owns 97% of the market. More »
Yahoo! Display Ad Builder
30th June 2009
Yahoo! recently announced a tie-up with Ad-Ready, a Seattle based Start-up Company to provide ready made custom built display ads to their marketers and advertisers. More »
Yahoo! Buzz Launches In India
29th May 2009
Yahoo! has been trying hard to reestablish themselves in the market in spite of tough competition and a global recession. To achieve this goal, they are making a number of changes in various aspects of their business. More »
Google Still Top Global Brand
7th May 2009
Brandz Top 100, a list of the world’s 100 most valuable brands, has recently been compiled for 2009 by Millward Brown a leading research company, which is a subsidiary of the WPP group. More »
Yahoo! Tops Mobile Search Site Benchmark
23rd April 2009
Growth in mobile Internet access and the number of users perform search operations on their mobile phones has prompted dotMobi and Gomez Inc. to create the world’s first Mobile Web Benchmark Series, to rank the leading mobile sites with regards to their efficiency for customer operations. More »
Yahoo! Updates Image Search, Quality Better Than Google
9th April 2009
Yahoo! recently overhauled the Yahoo! Image Search Preview page, with the intention of making it more interesting and user friendly for their clients. The result is a more modern feature that looks like a “Web 2.0” image gallery. More »
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