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Google vs. YahooNovember 25, 2009
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 7:35 AM/EST
Google AdMob Buy Beckons Answers from Microsoft, YahooShould Google and AdMob combine, they will have earned $68 million in mobile ad sales to give them 24 percent of the market. Google's purchase of AdMob makes it incumbent on Microsoft and Yahoo to acquire some of the competition in order to keep up with Google, the new mobile ad market leader. November 19, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009 10:11 AM/EST
Yahoo Search Now Indexing Twitter Tweets for Breaking NewsYahoo Nov. 19 began indexing Twitter tweets, photos, and videos pertaining to breaking news stories on its Yahoo News Shortcut, which is displayed on our the company's search results page when users search for fresh news. August 24, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009 2:55 PM/EST
Yahoo's New Search Layout from Its 'What Matters Most' EventCheck out these pictures of Yahoo's forthcoming search engine from its What Matters Most event. This includes the search integration with Yahoo's home page, adding video to search, along with integration with Facebook, Twitter and other Websites. August 9, 2009
Sunday, August 09, 2009 8:17 AM/EST
How Will Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Open Mouth and Insert Foot Next?The "boatloads of money" and "never been a search company" comments are biting Bartz. Bartz should do a couple of other things as well. One: She should learn her company's history and two: think before she speaks. In the meantime, let's have some fun with this as a guessing game. Call it: How Will Carol Bartz Open Mouth and Insert Foot Next? August 4, 2009
Tuesday, August 04, 2009 9:15 AM/EST
Yahoo Delicious Adds Real-Time Twitter Flavor to the MixThe new Fresh Bookmarks tab on the Delicious home page shows users the most recently saved Delicious bookmarks that are popping on Twitter. If Web service providers keep aggregating and indexing Twitter tweets, Google will be forced to follow Bing, Delicious and the smaller players. August 2, 2009
Sunday, August 02, 2009 3:32 PM/EST
Google Toolbar Data Could Boost Web, but Will Microsoft or Yahoo Get There First?To improve the application development opportunities for Web developers all over the world, social and search software makers are calling for Google to share the data it collects on its Web users through the Google browser toolbar. Does the value of keeping this information close to the vest outweigh Google's perception by many as a growing danger to Web users? July 29, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 12:17 PM/EST
Microsoft, Yahoo Can Try, but They Can't Take Google's Search CrownThe potential to monetize search and ads versus Google exists, but how does anyone know by the time Microhoo gets around to taking Google's search ad share that Google won't have successfully penetrated other search ad markets, particularly mobile and display ads? Microsoft and Yahoo aren't standing still, but neither will Google, which will take this challenge seriously under its "competition is just a click away" approach. July 28, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:22 AM/EST
Yahoo Video Dumbs Down Home Page Innovation for Non-GeeksYahoos explain how they separated metadata from markup and used machine-learned models and the like to retool the page. I wish Google would create some of these interesting videos. People would have a field day with commercials involving programmers, some of whom are celebrities in the high-tech world. July 21, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 11:52 AM/EST
Yahoo's New Home Page Trumps My Yahoo, iGoogle Pages in SimplicityWhat Yahoo has done is take the Web's go-to destinations and make them accessible from its front door. Ideally, it's a super social portal that would serve as a user's starting point. But I'm still not giving up my iGoogle page. January 15, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:55 AM/EST
Google Gmail Builds Momentum: Can Yahoo's Bartz Borrow That Magic?Unique visitors for Google's Gmail Web mail application grew 43 percent in 2008 to 29.6 million. Taking the Yahoo Open Strategy plan to open up Yahoo apps, the future of Yahoo Mail looks promising, but will Bartz stay this course or scrap it? |
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