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January 20, 2005Yahoo Introduces A TickerYahoo has announced a new product in their technology initiative, the My Yahoo! Ticker Beta, available at http://next.yahoo.com . The ticker sits on your desktop and provides you ticker-access to...January 13, 2005Yahoo Finance RSS Feeds Are Back In BusinessWoo-hoo! Yahoo Finance' RSS feeds, first cheered about in ResearchBuzz a couple of years ago (really? A couple of years ago? Cripes) have come back, as described in Jeremy Zawodny's...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Finance RSS Feeds Are Back In Business" here. January 02, 2005Yahoo's Top Searches for 2004Yahoo http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/Dec/1103873.htm has announced their top searches for 2004. The big winner? "American Idol". What a surprise. You can see all the top 2004 lists at http://tools.search.yahoo.com/top2004/, which include top...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo's Top Searches for 2004" here. December 16, 2004Yahoo's No-Query Limit, No For RealI've gotten a couple of e-mails from folks about Yahoo's No-Query Limit, about which I wrote at http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001944.shtml . They were wondering why the no-limit search works when they try...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo's No-Query Limit, No For Real " here. An Update On Yahoo's Video SearchThis afternoon one of the nice Yahoo people called me a with a brief update about the Yahoo Video Search, about which I wrote yesterday ( http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/002223.shtml ). I had...Read the rest of entry "An Update On Yahoo's Video Search " here. December 15, 2004Yahoo Launches Video Search, New RSS FormatI talk to PR people on the phone a fair amount. And the tone of the people I talk to ranges all the way from "I'm only doing this...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Launches Video Search, New RSS Format" here. November 26, 2004Presentations from Webmaster World Available from YahooYahoo's put up a couple of pix and the presentations from WebmasterWorld. The presentations are in Powerpoint. Topics include Search Friendly Design, PFI Topics and Issues, and Weblogs, Community, and...Read the rest of entry "Presentations from Webmaster World Available from Yahoo" here. November 24, 2004Yahoo's New Front Page and ShortcutsI know this kinda stuff has to happen, but it makes me very sad. Yahoo has a new front page. Go look at it. It's at http://www.yahoo.com. See anything odd...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo's New Front Page and Shortcuts" here. October 25, 2004Yahoo Image Search Breaks a BillionYahoo announced last week on the Yahoo Search Blog that Yahoo Images search ( http://images.search.yahoo.com ) now has over a billion images. Google Image Search, for those of you playing...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Image Search Breaks a Billion " here. October 18, 2004Yahoo Local Gets Way EnhancedYou ever feel like you're way behind and you're just going to get more behind? My review queue is jammed. I may just take a weekend and do nothing but...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Local Gets Way Enhanced" here. October 17, 2004Calculating Deep Link Ratio Using YahooThis is a little out of searching and more into SEO/Advertising, but I found it such an interesting use of the link/linkdomain syntaxes on Yahoo, I'm including it here. Roger...Read the rest of entry "Calculating Deep Link Ratio Using Yahoo " here. October 13, 2004New Yahoo Hack -- Searchroller for Domain SearchesThis one isn't quite finished yet. I'm hampered by my incomplete knowledge -- okay, almost complete non-knowledge -- of JavaScript. I'm going to toss it out here and if anyone...Read the rest of entry "New Yahoo Hack -- Searchroller for Domain Searches" here. October 05, 2004Yahoo Gets A Front-Page Redesign, Gives RSS Big HugI started using RSS in January 2000 after Blake Carver sent me a exasperated e-mail asking why, for heaven's sake, I wasn't using it. Surely, he noted, I could see...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Gets A Front-Page Redesign, Gives RSS Big Hug " here. October 04, 2004YNAPS -- Yahoo Non-API Proximity SearchTry using an artificial NEAR search for Yahoo: Find Word One: Within 12345 spaces of Word Two: . Any additional words? Yahoo doesn't offer an API, which might explain the...Read the rest of entry "YNAPS -- Yahoo Non-API Proximity Search" here. September 30, 2004How Much Page Does Yahoo Index?One of the lesser-discussed facets of Web searching is the spidering limits of search engines. Even if a search engine is a full-text engine, it may not search the entirety...Read the rest of entry "How Much Page Does Yahoo Index?" here. September 24, 2004Yahoo API Wish List">Jeremy asks about what Web services Yahoo should offer.. Hm. Assuming they offer an API, I'd: * Offer search access to their special collections -- images, news, etc. (this...September 17, 2004Yahoo Finance Kicks Out a Weekend EditionYahoo Finance announced this week a weekend edition, which launched this evening at the usual http://finance.yahoo.com and also at http://biz.yahoo.com/weekend/ . The new weekend material includes "Smarter Cars Are Safer...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Finance Kicks Out a Weekend Edition " here. August 20, 2004August 19, 2004Yahoo's No-Limit Query Limit As Opposed to Google's -- So What?I've gotten several mails about Four Things Yahoo Can Do That Google Can't. Many people asked about the query limit, mostly two things: 1) Is there any query limit? 2)...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo's No-Limit Query Limit As Opposed to Google's -- So What? " here. August 18, 2004Yahoo's Got Its Own Search Blog'Tip to Jeremy Z. for pointing out the New Yahoo Search Blog. Confidential to Yahoo: Do you realize what a gem you have in Jeremy and his communication with the...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo's Got Its Own Search Blog" here. August 17, 2004Four Things Yahoo Can Do That Google Can'tTo celebrate the upcoming release of Web Search Garage ( http://www.websearchgarage.com ) I have a freebie PDF tip sheet for you -- "Four Things Yahoo Can Do That Google Can't."...Read the rest of entry "Four Things Yahoo Can Do That Google Can't" here. August 09, 2004Yahoo Offers an Anti-Spy SolutionYahoo's started offering a toolbar with an anti-spy solution. The anti-spy solution adds a lot to the download -- it's 3MB, whereas without it's 0.4 MB -- and it still...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Offers an Anti-Spy Solution " here. August 04, 2004Yahoo Launches Beta of Local SearchYahoo has announced a beta search of a new Yahoo Local, at http://local.yahoo.com . Instead of the stuff you might remember from Yahoo Get Local, this is a search that...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Launches Beta of Local Search " here. July 15, 2004Yahoo! News Adds 27 New RSS FeedsA little bird at Yahoo told me about 27 new RSS feeds for Yahoo! News in three different categories: Most E-Mailed: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s&u=/rss_index_mostemailed/static Most Viewed: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s&u=/rss_index_mostviewed/static Highest Rated: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s&u=/rss_index_highestrated/static Thanks Bird!...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo! News Adds 27 New RSS Feeds" here. July 06, 2004Yahoo Mail's Got Its Own DMoz Category TooDmoz.org's Yahoo Mail Category. Entries include Yahoo Mail Sucker, described as "Perl application that simulates a user's actions to download their Yahoo e-mail to their local inbox. Supports SSL, multiple...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Mail's Got Its Own DMoz Category Too" here. July 01, 2004Sneak Around to Find All Yahoo's RSS FeedsYahoo Daily News has had a feed list at http://news.yahoo.com/rss . And while this is a very nice feed list it is not their ENTIRE feed list. Instead, you'll have...Read the rest of entry "Sneak Around to Find All Yahoo's RSS Feeds" here. June 30, 2004New Yahoo RSS Feeds for KidsJeremy notes new RSS feeds for kids including Ask Earl and the SAT Tip of the Day. Thanks Jeremy....June 01, 2004Find Cheap Gas Prices With YahooYahoo's announced yet another one of their new shortcuts. This one helps you find cheap gas prices around the country. To use it, enter the keyword gas and a zip...Read the rest of entry "Find Cheap Gas Prices With Yahoo" here. May 26, 2004Yahoo's Groovy Linkdomain SyntaxYou learn something new every day, and today I learned about Yahoo's linkdomain: syntax. Yahoo's link: syntax finds everything that links to a particular page, but as you might guess...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo's Groovy Linkdomain Syntax" here. May 20, 2004Google, Yahoo, and CNN: ARGHMuch has been made of the switch of CNN from Google's search results to Yahoo's. I'll take CNN's word that they switched, but in at least one instance Google's search...March 22, 2004Yahoo Ups Their News SearchYahoo last week announced an upgraded news search, with more sources and more frequently-updated content. You can search Yahoo News at http://news.yahoo.com . First, the cool stuff. Yahoo News now...March 10, 2004Yahoo Adds Several Tech RSS FeedsYahoo's added several RSS feeds to their news offerings at http://news.yahoo.com/rss/ . Check out all the new technology RSS feeds at http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s&u=/static/hf2k_rss_index_tech/static . Oh goody, the topic of spam gets...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Adds Several Tech RSS Feeds" here. March 08, 2004Yahoo IS Offering Free Feed SubmissionRemember how last week I was having a cow about Yahoo's new paid submission services? Well, I still think they're pretty awful/ But Yahoo DOES have a free URL submit...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo IS Offering Free Feed Submission " here. March 04, 2004Yahoo Announces Content Acquisition ProgramYahoo has announced a new Content Acquisition Program which they'll be rolling out this week. From the announcement: "CAP enables non-commercial and commercial content providers to better interact with Yahoo!...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Announces Content Acquisition Program " here. January 20, 2004Yahoo Announces Yahoo LabsI knew you knew about Google Labs, but did you know about Yahoo Labs? Yahoo on Monday announced Yahoo Research Labs at http://labs.yahoo.com , describing it as " a research...December 31, 2003The Top Yahoo Searches of 2003Yahoo has released its most popular searches of 2003. They're available at http://search.yahoo.com/top2003 . Some of these are what you'd expect -- Harry Potter, American Idol, etc -- but there...Read the rest of entry "The Top Yahoo Searches of 2003" here. November 12, 2003Yahoo Launches Pop-Up Blocker for their ToolbarYahoo! Companion has started offering a pop-up blocker that offers several different options for dealing with pop-ups. The Yahoo Toolbar is pretty straightforward, though its offerings are a little broader...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Launches Pop-Up Blocker for their Toolbar" here. November 04, 2003Yahoo Adds Some Search Features to Its Front PageYahoo ( http://www.yahoo.com ) has added extended search functionality to its front page. Now from the front page you can use a pull-down menu to search images, yellow pages, and...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Adds Some Search Features to Its Front Page" here. October 02, 2003Yahoo News Offers Customizable RSS FilesYou can now get Yahoo News search via RSS! Jeremy Zawodny explains in his 'blog ( http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/001001.html ) how to set up RSS feeds for Yahoo searches (instead of categories.)...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo News Offers Customizable RSS Files" here. September 24, 2003Yahoo Adds New Shopping EngineYahoo has announced a new product search engine which has been integrated into Yahoo Shopping and which includes both items from Yahoo Shopping, direct feeds into the engines, and "merchants...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Adds New Shopping Engine" here. September 04, 2003Yahoo Adds an RSS Reader to My YahooIf you're registered with Yahoo you may want to use it to read some of your RSS feeds. Log in to your account and then visit http://e.my.yahoo.com/config/add_module?.module=xcontent . You'll be...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Adds an RSS Reader to My Yahoo " here. August 11, 2003A Yahoo Search Group and Yahoo Group ChangesRead the rest of entry "A Yahoo Search Group and Yahoo Group Changes" here. July 14, 2003Yahoo Buys Overture -- AIIEEE or Not?
Okay, here's the news. Yahoo buys Overture. (Press release a http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030714/145438_1.html) On the one hand I'm completely unsurprised. On the other hand I'm resisting the urge to bounce off the...
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"Yahoo Buys Overture -- AIIEEE or Not? July 07, 2003Moreover's Results Integrated into YahooYahoo and Moreover both announced yesterday that Yahoo's News search has integrated Moreover's headlines. Moreover's news brings 3,500 sources to Yahoo's news search. ... which means now you can search...Read the rest of entry "Moreover's Results Integrated into Yahoo" here. June 09, 2003Yahoo Keeps On with the RSS FeedsJeremy pointed out in his 'blog (http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000774.html) that Yahoo has added even more RSS feeds. This time they've RSS'd Yahoo Buzz. Check out Jeremy's 'blog entries for a list of...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Keeps On with the RSS Feeds" here. June 04, 2003Yahoo Quietly Adds An RSS FeedIf you read the above item, you might have thought, that this was just another Yahoo feature that Newsisfree is scraping. Well, they're not scraping *this* Yahoo page. After an...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Quietly Adds An RSS Feed" here. Yahoo News Adds "Tech Tuesday" SectionYahoo News ( http://news.yahoo.com) has announced a "Tech Tuesday" section, with information from various content providers. The new section ( http://news.yahoo.com/techtuesday/) includes information from Ziff Davis, PC World, and the...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo News Adds "Tech Tuesday" Section" here. December 18, 2002Yahoo Releases Archive of AP News DocumentsYahoo has released an archive of almost a million Associated Press (AP) articles going back to 1998. The archives can be found by searching Yahoo's News site ( ). This...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Releases Archive of AP News Documents" here. December 03, 2002Yahoo Offers A Year In ReviewYahoo has announced the launch of Yahoo! Year In Review at http://yir.yahoo.com/ . This site brings information from several Yahoo properties together into one overview of 2002. From the front...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Offers A Year In Review" here. October 09, 2002Yahoo Announces Earnings TodayYahoo is announcing earnings after the close of business today, and I'm just slopping over with questions about some changes I've seen in Yahoo lately. Is the question of whether...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Announces Earnings Today" here. September 30, 2002Yahoo Yanks RSS Feeds, Northern Light DocsCNET is reporting ( http://news.com.com/210 0-1023-959912.html ) that Yahoo has stopped their Premium Document Search, mentioned here last January ( http://www.researchbuzz.com/news/2002/jan10jan1602.html#yahooteams ). I have to admit I was always really...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Yanks RSS Feeds, Northern Light Docs" here. July 03, 2002Yahoo Launches their New Home PageRead the rest of entry "Yahoo Launches their New Home Page" here. July 02, 2002AltaVista Launches New Search Engine FeaturesRead the rest of entry "AltaVista Launches New Search Engine Features" here. June 12, 2002Yahoo Launches Beta Version of HomepageThere's been talk on various news outlets about a new beta version of the Yahoo home page, and now you can see it at http://www.yahoo.com/beta.html . While I liked some...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Launches Beta Version of Homepage" here. May 16, 2002Yahoo Incorporates Premium Documents Into News SearchIf you've used Yahoo's news search ( http://dailynews.yahoo.com ), you know that the premium documents appear in a box on the right side. Yahoo has also included them in the...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Incorporates Premium Documents Into News Search" here. May 08, 2002Yahoo Giving New Popularity PointersYahoo has added a couple of new popularity pointers to Yahoo News at http://news.yahoo.com/h/mt/?u . You can now get pointers to Yahoo's most popular picks ( http://picks.yahoo.com/picks/most/ ) and the...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Giving New Popularity Pointers" here. April 30, 2002Now Yahoo Getting Into Advice?ZDNet is reporting ( http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-895038.html ) that Yahoo is going to start their own advice site in partnership with LiveAdvice on Monday night. Yahoo's free advice site, Yahoo Experts, will...Read the rest of entry "Now Yahoo Getting Into Advice?" here. April 03, 2002Yahoo Indexing PDF FilesYahoo has started adding PDF files to its index, though at the moment they seem mostly to be in the educational section. You can find them by searching for: u:pdf...January 31, 2002Yahoo Teams up With Consumer ReportsYahoo announced this morning that they're teaming up with Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine and ConsumerReports.org. Yahoo has integrated free buying guides and pay-per-view product ratings from Consumer...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Teams up With Consumer Reports" here. December 18, 2001Yahoo Launches Music PropertyYahoo has launched Yahoo! Launch. No, wait, I lied; in fact it's called LAUNCH, Your Yahoo! Music Experience, (hereafter referred to as LYYME) and it's available at http://launch.yahoo.com. Built on...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Launches Music Property" here. October 17, 2001Yahoo Sells WebRingThere's a story on CNET http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7535715.html saying that Yahoo has sold WebRing to Tim Killeen. Considering some of the mail I got from 'ring "owners," I'm not sure that's a...May 21, 2001Yahoo Branching Out Popularity Pages in All DirectionsYahoo's most e-mailed news ( http://news.yahoo.com/h/mt/?u ) is a great daily stop if you're a news junkie. Yahoo has built up the most popular links to encompass several international Yahoos...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Branching Out Popularity Pages in All Directions" here. February 15, 2001More On Yahoo NewsAfter I posted the information on finding news with a http://xx.news.yahoo.com format, reader BP looked around and sent me some feedback on their findings: "You may already be aware of...February 13, 2001Yahoo Adds Most-Popular-Content in other LanguagesOkay, who else is addicted to going over to http://dailynews.yahoo.com and checking out the most popular stories of the last six hours? Anybody else? Just me, huh? Oh, well. I...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Adds Most-Popular-Content in other Languages" here. February 05, 2001Yahoo Launches Pay for PlacementDepressing. Argh. Wired is reporting ( http://www.wir ed.com/news/business/0,1367,41594,00.html ) that Yahoo is starting a sponsored sites program ( http://sponsoredsites.yahoo.com/ ). From the site: "The Sponsored Sites program allows commercial web...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Launches Pay for Placement" here. January 17, 2001Yahoo! (Also) Get Mobile(Kind of a Yahooesque day -- sorry) Yahoo has a (new?) subsection called Yahoo Mobile at http://mobile.yahoo.com/wireless /home . This site contains mobile phone, PDA, and pager links, along with...December 13, 2000ABCNEWS.com Inks Content Distro Deal with YahooABCNEWS.com and Yahoo have made an agreement. ABCNEWS.com will send daily video feeds to Yahoo! News, along with "regularly scheduled" excerpts from ABC programming, including World News Tonight and Good...Read the rest of entry "ABCNEWS.com Inks Content Distro Deal with Yahoo" here. November 29, 2000Yahoo Now Offers Encrypted E-MailCNET is reporting ( http://news.cnet.com /news/0-1005-200-3901784.html ) that Yahoo! Mail is now offering an encryption option. Check the article for more details on the new option and how it works....Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Now Offers Encrypted E-Mail" here. November 20, 2000Yahoo Now Charging For Business ListingsIn February of '99, Yahoo! started charging an optional $199 for business owners who wanted expedited consideration for listings. That was optional. Now, however, it's been made permanent. Business owners...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Now Charging For Business Listings" here. July 31, 2000Yahoo Web Beacons: Annoying Privacy Breach Or Helpful Feature?When I found this page, I made a comment out loud. Imagine an Andy Griffithesque southern accent while reading and you'll understand why I don't have a career in radio....Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Web Beacons: Annoying Privacy Breach Or Helpful Feature?" here. July 25, 2000Yahoo Covers the Presidential ConventionsYahoo will be covering the Republican and Democratic conventions at http://politics.yahoo.com/ from July 31-August 3 (Republican convention) and August 13-17 (Democratic convention). Yahoo's press release says they will offer "live...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo Covers the Presidential Conventions" here. July 17, 2000Additional Yahoo Special Data SetsResearch maestro GP contributed these additional data sets that work with Yahoo's new search tech. Remember, don't use quotes with these searches. TV Shows -- Looks like American shows only....Read the rest of entry "Additional Yahoo Special Data Sets" here. July 13, 2000Yahoo Announces ImprovementsYahoo has announced some enhancements to their search engine. Besides the integration of Google results (which we already knew about) Yahoo's announcements include a most popular sites feature (most popular...June 28, 2000Is Inktomi Losing Yahoo a Big Deal?ZDNet has an article noting that Opera 4.0 is going to leave beta today at PC Expo. ( http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2594503,00.html ) The story mentioned that Opera is now available on a...Read the rest of entry "Is Inktomi Losing Yahoo a Big Deal?" here. February 21, 2000Yahoo Calendar launchesReader JR reports that EventCal was owned by WebCal, which was purchased by Yahoo in July 1998. (See http://www.yahoo.com/docs /pr/release203.html for more details.) I guess so. If you try to...February 17, 2000Yahoo wants to improveYahoo is in talks with several European groups with the aim of "improving its portal." http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_93952_Ext,00.html...August 18, 1998 |
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