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Yahoo Search Shares Increase as Google Slips

Google

A recent ComScore study shows an increase in Yahoo Search market share of .5% in January 2009 over December 2008, giving Yahoo a market share of US based searches of about 21%.
Google on the other hand, showed a slight decrease in market share over the same period, losing the same 0.5% that Yahoo gained, closing [...]

Yahoo! announces MyWeb closure

Yahoo!

Yesterday, Yahoo! Search Blog announced that Yahoo! will discontinue the MyWeb service starting March 18, 2009 and will focus on improving Delicious for social bookmarking. Yahoo! has adviced its MyWeb users to migrate their bookmarks to three options. They described as:
1. Yahoo! Bookmarks. For users primarily interested in private bookmarking, the switch is simple – [...]

Jerry Yang email to Yahooers : 10% of You are FIRED!

Yahoo!

Yahoo’s financial report for the Q3 is out and despite reporting a not so bad financial conditions contrary to what was being predicted the past couple of days, the company is still set to reduce its work force by an equivalent 10% reduction on its payroll. That percentage is roughly equivalent to around 1,500 Yahoo [...]

Bill Gates Left … What’s next?

Google

An era came to an end – Bill Gates!
No matter how much you hate him, no matter how much you are jealous about him – You should be grateful to him to give you the opportunity to read this blog right here at the moment. I can’t say it was not impossible for us to [...]

At Last … Yahoo Choose Google as Partner in Online Advertising

Google

For last 5/6 months, lots been happening around Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google. First Microsoft placed an unsoliciated bid to buyout Yahoo!, then Google raised their hand to Yahoo for friendship advertisement partnership, then Yahoo rejects Microsoft’s bid, Again Yahoo shows some interest, talks begin between Microsoft and Yahoo …. blah blah blah.
Finally, Yahoo choose Google [...]

Cashback – Get cash back from Microsoft Live Search

Microsoft

On Wednesday, Microsoft unveiled a new rebate program to lure people to its search engine through a program that gives users rebates when they use it to find and buy some products at Advance08, a Microsoft conference for advertisers.
This effort will be called Cashback. This program will be primarily encouraging internet users to use Microsoft’s [...]

Yahoo teams with McAfee for safer Search – SearchScan

Random Stuff

As Microsoft walked away from their $44 million bid, Jerry Young is desperate to make the shareholders happy. Today Yahoo announced their partership with McAfee to launch SearchScan, a safer internet search for the surfers.
Currently Yahoo has 21% share of the search market, whereas search gaint Google has 60%. Yahoo is expecting integrating McAfee’s SiteAdvisor [...]

Yahoo shares started losing as Microsoft exit

Microsoft

Yahoo’s German-listed shares have plunged 17% after software giant Microsoft dropped its three-month-old bid to buy the internet firm.
In pre-market US trading, Yahoo shares fell 22% and analysts expect them to drop by a similar margin when Wall Street opens for business later.
The deal collapsed after the two sides could not agree on the sale [...]

Microsoft abandons Yahoo bid, rebuffing higher sale price

Microsoft

Microsoft Corp. has withdrawn its $42.3 billion bid to buy Yahoo Inc., scrapping an attempt to snap up the tarnished Internet icon in hopes of toppling online search and advertising leader Google Inc.
The decision to walk away from the deal came Saturday after last-ditch efforts to negotiate a mutually acceptable sale price proved unsuccessful.
Microsoft [...]

Yahoo – Google Ads May Appear From Next Week

Technology

After a 2 Weeks proposed system testing, Yahoo! websites and its services may start showing Google ads within a week time as Yahoo is waits for Microsoft to give up its acquisition bid or attempt a hostile takeover, reported by The Wall Street Journal.
This deal will bring Yahoo an addition US$1 billion per year under [...]

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