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Archive for the ‘Yahoo’ Category

August 27th, 2007

Yahoo Mail is Gets a Boost and Leaves Beta

Yahoo Mail Beta has been around for a couple of years now, the slick feature-rich design was initially offered through invites only, then for paying customers only (that’s when I joined) and lastly, about a year ago it opened as a Beta version for everyone.
Over the weekend, Yahoo Mail Beta had become official while removing […]

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August 26th, 2007

Yahoo Makes Football Available Overseas

When living in Israel I remember having to follow-up on NFL scores over the Internet, newspaper, phone or any way I could. TV broadcasts were saved only for Superbowl and some specific playoff games, all the rest were reviewed in an approx 15 seconds each. Those days are over and this season, for the second […]

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August 23rd, 2007

Yahoo - Actionality Deal Confirmed

The rumors of a possible deal between Yahoo and Actionality which have been going on for a couple of weeks finally got the stamp of approval with an official announcement from Yahoo.
What is Actionality? From the company’s website:
Actionality is your exclusive source for efficient and effective mobile marketing technologies and solutions. Imagine having the […]

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August 22nd, 2007

Yahoo Tames Slurp and Updates Index

Yahoo is rolling out these days fresh updates to its “crawl, index and ranking systems.” You should be able to see a significant reduction Slurp’s crawling intensity as it should now be more efficient and less aggressive.
According to Yahoo Search Blog:
In response to feedback from the community, we’re reducing our crawling machines by a significant […]

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August 20th, 2007

Yahoo Audio Adds Free Samples

Back in the day, I spent about a year working as an ice-cream man in Las Vegas. The most popular question I remember getting from people (mainly kids) around was if I had any free samples and don’t we all love them?
Yahoo added some free music samples under their YAHOO! AUDIO search. Not only that […]

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August 16th, 2007

Yahoo Adds Baseball Shortcuts

As baseball season is heating up, Yahoo decided to make the life of the stat-buffs among us a tid-bit easier with their new Baseball Shortcuts. The original post calls this feature “Sports Shortcuts” but I could not locate any other sport besides baseball which triggered these shortcuts.
Here’s what you get when searching for Barry Bonds:
Tags: […]

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August 14th, 2007

Yahoo Delivers the Most Satisfaction

In a recent survey held by University of Michigan’s American Customer Satisfaction Index, or ACSI, on customer satisfaction Yahoo came on top with a score of 79 while Google scored only 78 in a surver that asked people about to report on Web search services, portals, online news and information.
Yahoo’s score shows a 4 point […]

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August 13th, 2007

Engines Comment on their Own Privacy

Last week CNET News.com sent 8 questions to each search engine in an attempt to rank them based on their own observation of themselves. This is in an attempt to help people understand the different policies used by each engine on specific issues. The engines included AOL, Ask.com, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo and the questions […]

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July 27th, 2007

Yahoo “One Ups” Google in Response Privacy Concerns

In response to recent privacy concerns Yahoo decided to alter their data retention policy and make all logged data older than 13 months anonymous. This is unlike Google who limited their cookie’s lifespan to 18 months but maintains all logged references.
This new mentioned policy is to be implemented “by the end of the year” and […]

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July 24th, 2007

ASK & MSN Join Forces in Embracing Privacy

As ASK is getting ready for the launch of ASKEraser, its anonymous search tool due out soon, it joined forces with MSN in an effort to create an “industry standard” to better protect consumer privacy. The two, who are more of the “market followers” in the industry joined yesterday and proposed a project which would […]

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