ResearchBuzz:
Last Five Entries: |
ResearchBuzz: Search Engines-Yahoo Archives
May 29, 2006Yahoo Has All the Answers -- Well, More Answers, Anyway
Apparently 42 isn't enough. Yahoo announced 15 May that Yahoo Answers has reached more than ten million answers in the US since its beta launch last December. Yahoo has also officially launched Yahoo! Canada Answers, now available at http://answers.yahoo.ca. So...
Continue reading "Yahoo Has All the Answers -- Well, More Answers, Anyway" » May 16, 2006Yahoo's Got a New Home Page
Yahoo has announced that they now have a new home page, which you can access at the usual Yahoo place -- www.yahoo.com. Look at it with something besides Opera, though, because with Opera all you get an error message and...
May 12, 2006Yahoo Announces Livesearch on AlltheWeb
Yahoo has announced on its blog that it's added a new technology, Livesearch, to its AlltheWeb property. Unfortunately, it doesn't support Opera, but you can launch Firefox and try it at http://livesearch.alltheweb.com/. "Search Smarter. Find Faster." Pretty generic but it...
Continue reading "Yahoo Announces Livesearch on AlltheWeb" » May 07, 2006A Search Bookmarklet for Yahoo Blogs and More
Remember my little rant about searching just Yahoo's blogs? Matt Vance of MineZone Blog has whipped up a lovely blog search bookmarklet. As you may remember a bookmarklet is like a bookmark, only it has a little JavaScript in it...
Continue reading "A Search Bookmarklet for Yahoo Blogs and More" » April 29, 2006Yahoo Starts Up Yahoo Babelfish
Ah, Babelfish, how I love thee. Even when Altavista was plucking every last nerve I had, Babelfish remained an awesome translating tool. Now Yahoo has taken Babelfish from the AltaVista franchise and created Yahoo Babelfish, as they explain in a...
April 25, 2006Yahoo's Blog Searching: A Couple Hints
I don't use Feedster as much as I used to. It's a variety of little things that you may not care about (including the noise in the results, the lack of a cache, the fact that they seem to enjoy...
February 22, 2006Yahoo Releases a Couple New Things
The Yahoo Developer Network has announced a couple of new products that are about fifty feet over my head, but maybe y'all get some use out of them. The first thing is the Yahoo! User Interface Library. The library, about...
February 13, 2006A Raft of Yahoo RSS Feeds and a Quick Search Trick
You probably knew that Yahoo was offering RSS feeds. There's a huge list of them available at http://developer.yahoo.net/rss/index.html#biglist. Properties covered here include not only Yahoo, but Flickr, Upcoming.org, and blo.gs. What I really liked about this list, though, was...
Continue reading "A Raft of Yahoo RSS Feeds and a Quick Search Trick" » February 06, 2006Search in the Future
On Super Bowl Sunday I and the family had dinner at my grandmother's house. We were all sitting around gently deflating after a huge meal, and because my mother and I were sort-of rooting for the Seahawks, we turned the...
February 05, 2006Yahoo Now Offers RSS Feed Monitor as Part of Yahoo Alerts
If you have a Yahoo account I hope you use Yahoo Alerts http://alerts.yahoo.com to keep up with information like news, weather, and sports. I find their keyword-based news alerts to be terrific. I noticed the other day that they're now...
Continue reading "Yahoo Now Offers RSS Feed Monitor as Part of Yahoo Alerts" » January 05, 2006Yahoo Launches Yahoo Answers
In December, Yahoo announced a beta of a new services, Yahoo! Answers. Yahoo! Answers was described as a service that "complements Web Search by adding a human element that allows users to ask straightforward questions and receive specific answers based...
December 25, 2005Yahoo Offering Open Search Shortcuts
Hmm! Yahoo has in its blog announced a new feature called Open Search Shortcuts. How do these differ from regular search shortcuts? They allow you to go straight to a site and sometimes go straight to a site and run...
December 14, 2005Yahoo Redesigns Video Search Frontpage
Last week Yahoo! Search announced a redesign of their Video Search page. You can see the announcement from Yahoo's blog at http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000222.html, while the changed service itself is at http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000222.html. Um, eh, okay. The front page now features sections for...
December 13, 2005Yahoo Updates Site Explorer
Last September, Yahoo launched Site Explorer, available at http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/. Site Explorer allows you to enter a URL and get a lot of information about that URL, including the number of pages in that domain, and the number of links to...
December 12, 2005Yahoo Buys Del.icio.us
I have mentioned before that all of these search engine acquisitions seems like the initial country-securing phase in a game of Risk. So I hope you won't think I'm too much of an utter nerd when my first thought upon...
October 26, 2005Generate RSS Feeds for Yahoo Video Search
All you cool kids who have iPods with video will appreciate the Yahoo 'blog entry at http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000202.html that offers a tool for generating Yahoo Video RSS feeds. They also show you how to enter these URLs on iTunes and get...
Continue reading "Generate RSS Feeds for Yahoo Video Search" » October 11, 2005Yahoo Integrates Blog Results With News Search
Recently Google launched a blog search. But Yahoo didn't. Instead they decided to integrate blog search results with their news. You can read their announcement about this at http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000198.html and of course try it for yourself at http://news.yahoo.com. Integrated means...
Continue reading "Yahoo Integrates Blog Results With News Search" » October 03, 2005Yahoo Announces Open Content Alliance
Yahoo has teamed up with several companies including Adobe, the Internet Archive, National Archives (UK), Hewlett Packard Labs, and O'Reilly Media to form the Open Content Alliance ( http://opencontentalliance.org/ ), which is described as "a global consortium focused on providing...
September 21, 2005Yahoo's New Instant Search
Yahoo's testing a new instant search feature that'll give instant information without having to load a results page. It's quick data with a couple of surprising omissions; you can try it out for yourself at http://instant.search.yahoo.com/ . Yahoo says the...
September 07, 2005Yahoo Brings Back their Buzz Game
Yahoo has announced in their 'blog that they're bringing back their "Buzz Game" -- predict which technologies for which users will be searching in the future. There are lots of tech goodies to be won. You can get all the...
August 17, 2005Yahoo Releases New Version of Yahoo Local
Yahoo has announced some new features to their local search offering, Yahoo Local ( http://local.yahoo.com ) The new features include the ability to search by neighborhood and a recent search history and suggestions based on the search history. I went...
Continue reading "Yahoo Releases New Version of Yahoo Local" » August 15, 2005Yahoo Announces Big Honking Web Index
(Yes, I know, this was several days ago, I'm still catching up). Yahoo has announced in their blog a new index. The announcement's at http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000172.html ....
August 14, 2005Yahoo News RSS Feeds Now Got Pix
Hat tip to Jeff Boulter for noticing in his 'blog that Yahoo News RSS feeds now feature pictures. Examples and commentary at http://boulter.com/blog/2005/08/10/yahoo-news-rss-feeds-now-include-pictures/. Niftay....
August 03, 2005Yahoo to Launch Blog Ad Network?
I have no idea why it took them so long, but CNET is reporting that Yahoo is set to launch an ad network for small content publishers. This would compete with Google's AdSense program. This article notes "Yahoo's new service...
July 03, 2005Yahoo Releases API for Its Maps
Shortly after Google started talking about theirs, Yahoo started talking about theirs. And I'm talking about Map APIs. Yahoo's is at http://developer.yahoo.net/maps/ . This page includes documentation, lots of samples, and a pointer to a FAQ and an online mailing...
May 28, 2005Slider Searches, Yahoo Style
I can hear Gary Price cheering from here -- he loves sliders for searches and now Yahoo's given him a new one to play with. Their Mindset search allows you to use a slider to specify whether you're doing research...
May 23, 2005Yahoo Having Y!Q Contest
Yahoo has announced on their blog a new contest for the best use of their Y!Q search product. First prize? Five grand. Woo! To enter you need to do something groovy with Y!Q on your site and you need to...
May 14, 2005Yahoo News Tag Style
Oh, this is adorable. Love tags? Can't get enough of that folksonomy goodness? Then you're gona love Yahoo Tag Soup, available at http://yahoo.theherrens.com/index.php . Basically it's an overview of Yahoo's news in Tag format -- that is, a big box...
Roundup of Yahoo RSS Feeds
Hat tip to Library Stuff for the pointer to Yahoo's roundup of RSS feeds, available at http://developer.yahoo.net/rss/ . Be sure to pay attention to the RSS Index links over on the right of the page; that's where all the good...
May 05, 2005A Yahoo Traffic / Google Maps Mashup
I love musical mashups and I'm starting to really love Web services mashups. The latest is a groovy item called Google-Yahoo Traffic Maps, available at http://supergreg.hopto.org/google-yahoo/. The site warns that this doesn't work in Safari, but it did fine in...
April 30, 2005Yahoo Hacks Group on Flickr
Hat tip to Jeremy for the pointer to the Yahoo Hacks group on Flickr. It's available at http://www.flickr.com/groups/yahoohacks/. Nifty....
Mixing 360 and Flickr
Some very clever soul has mixed together Yahoo 360 and Flickr. Also available are instructions on how to make your own. Confidental to Alan: remember what I said about integrating Flickr with other Yahoo content? :->...
April 20, 2005The New Yahoo News Beta
Yahoo's got a new news beta out there, which you can check out at http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s&u=/tour_general/static. Actually that's all sales wibeldypuff. To get to the good stuff, hit the Start Exploring button. Basically it's tabbed at the top, with the top...
April 11, 2005Compare Yahoo and Google Results
Wondering EXACTLY what the difference is between Yahoo and Google's results? Well, I can't help you there but I can give you a pointer. The pointer's to Yahgoohoogle, a site that lets you compare Yahoo and Google's search results. You...
April 06, 2005Yahoo Backs Up Wikipedia
Hmm. Yahoo and Wikipedia have announced that Yahoo will be supporting Wikipedia with "hardware and resources" and in turn will be integrating Wikipedia results into their search results over the next several weeks, via shortcuts. The official announcement is at...
Getting Yahoo Local Results in a Spreadsheet
Man, I SO wanted this to work, but I couldn't get it to. Maybe my version of Excel is too old (reading the site again, I see it is. DRAT!) Anyway, a very clever person has come up with an...
Continue reading "Getting Yahoo Local Results in a Spreadsheet" » April 05, 2005Yahoo Makes Changes to Y!Q
Remember that Y!Q service for publishers and searchers? It's a service available that allows you to add context-based searching to your site. You can see my earlier writeup about it here. Yahoo has announced some changes to it in their...
April 02, 2005Yahoo Announces New Index
Yahoo took a tip from Danny Sullivan and announced on their blog when they would be updating their search index. The answer, as you can see at http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000095.html , was the night of March 31st. Further, they provide an e-mail...
March 29, 2005Yahoo Launches Search for Creative Commons Content
Yahoo has announced a new search (in beta, natch) that searches the Web exclusively for content that's got a creative commons license. You can try it at http://search.yahoo.com/cc . The search is a plain Web box with two checkboxes: "Find...
Continue reading "Yahoo Launches Search for Creative Commons Content" » March 28, 2005Web Ransom Notes
Cheers to Library Tetronics for pointing me to the Web ransom note, built with the Yahoo API. It's available at http://blog.outer-court.com/yahoo/letters.php5 . Actually it's called Web of Letters. Enter your text and it gets letter images of Yahoo and makes...
Yahoo Desktop Search Adds A Couple of Formats
Yahoo Desktop Search ( http://desktop.yahoo.com/ ) has added a couple of new searchable formats to its beta. The new formats are Yahoo Address Book and Yahoo Internet Messenger. YDS in toto searches over 200 formats, from the common (PDF) to...
Continue reading "Yahoo Desktop Search Adds A Couple of Formats" » March 27, 2005Some Updates to Yahoo's FareChase
Yahoo's travel search engine, FareChase, last mentioned and bitterly complained about in September has had some updates and enhancements. It's available at http://farechase.yahoo.com . Among the improvements is the fact that it now supports other browsers besides IE, including Firefox....
March 10, 2005Yahoo Publisher Network?
What the heck is the Yahoo Publisher Network?. Is there an AdSense competitor on the way? hmmmmmm?...
March 07, 2005Gee, I Never Thought Of It Like That
"Yahoo is Jan to Google's Marsha." -- Ernie, Little. Yellow. Different. (And Yahoo Employee.) Now I have this picture in my head of Jeremy yelling "Marsha Marsha Marsha!" The last few neurons I had just curled up in the corner...
March 05, 2005Yahoo's Ten Year Retrospective
Yahoo's got a ten-year retrospective available on its Web site. It's a Flash-based presentation at http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/. (There's also an HTML version -- look for it at the bottom of the page.) There are a hundred squares. Click on a square...
March 03, 2005Yahoo Directory RSS Feeds?
Big props to Antville ( http://ast.antville.org/stories/1059791/ ) for pointing this out. Looks like Yahoo is now offering RSS feeds for some of their directory sites. You can get a list of the available feeds at http://dir.yahoo.com/rss/dir/index.php . If you want...
March 01, 2005Yahoo API! Yahoo API! Yahoo API!
That noise you heard coming from the east coast was my cheering for Yahoo's new Developer Network and API, as announced in their blog at http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000084.html . The new Developer Network is available at http://developer.yahoo.net/ ....
February 24, 2005Yahoo Expands Image Search, Transformed Queries
Yahoo announced in its search blog recently ( http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000083.html) that they've expanded Yahoo images and added a bit to its functionality....
Continue reading "Yahoo Expands Image Search, Transformed Queries" » February 14, 2005Yahoo Toolbar Now Available for Firefox
Yahoo announced last week that their toolbar is now available for Firefox. The toolbar, which you may download at http://toolbar.yahoo.com/firefox , is available for Windows only at the moment though versions for MacOS X and Linux are supposed to be...
Continue reading "Yahoo Toolbar Now Available for Firefox" » February 11, 2005Yahoo Offers Hints for Webmasters
The Yahoo 'blog has a page of hints for Webmasters who want Yahoo's crawler, slurp, to visit, but don't want slurp to take up too much of their bandwidth. Suggestions include using compressed files and smart caching. The full article's...
February 03, 2005Yahoo Offers Y!Q
Yahoo continues its trend of rolling out cool things with Y!Q, which is indeed cool but's going to be a bear to spell. Ack. At any rate you can find it at http://yq.search.yahoo.com/splash/start.html . What is Y!Q? It's a portable...
January 20, 2005Yahoo Introduces A Ticker
Yahoo 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 your My Yahoo content, which includes the usual portal stuff...
January 13, 2005Yahoo Finance RSS Feeds Are Back In Business
Woo-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 blog at http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/003924.html . The old ones, as I remember...
Continue reading "Yahoo Finance RSS Feeds Are Back In Business" » January 02, 2005Yahoo's Top Searches for 2004
Yahoo 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 news searches, top music searches, and top reality show searches....
December 16, 2004Yahoo's No-Query Limit, No For Real
I'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 it from my site, but not from when they try...
An Update On Yahoo's Video Search
This 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 asked in the writeup how they were discovering the video....
| ||
