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August 30th, 2007

Google Lands CNN.com Deal, Beats Yahoo

Google announced yesterday that they closed an exclusive deal to provide contextual advertising to be displayed on the U.S. news portion of CNN’s website. Google beat Yahoo to the deal which has been Yahoo’s since 2004 (when they took it away from Google). Yahoo still remains the provider of such services to CNN’s international edition.
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August 30th, 2007

Yahoo & Google Direction in the Benz Near You

Beginning next week, Mercedes Benz owners will be able to plan trips, stops, hotels, restaurants and more using Yahoo or Google and forward their results directly to their in-car GPS system. The new program, called Search & Send, was developed as a joint effort between Yahoo and Google.
Drivers can plot destinations, addresses or points of […]

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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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July 12th, 2007

Yahoo Adds Search Suggest Added

Yahoo search suggestions, which used to be an exclusive feature on the Firefox toolbar, is now available via Yahoo.com. According to the announcement, you will be suggested with related terms as you type your query. For example when searching for Las Vegas, Yahoo suggests several functions in Las Vegas… This feature has been available on […]

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May 26th, 2007

Yahoo Tests Outside Links form Homepage

All the major portals (i.e. Yahoo, AOL, etc) tends to not link to outside sources directly from their homepage, but only to deeper pages within their own portal. However, a new test implemented by Yahoo is trying to change that.
The main idea is to try and add value by providing truly relevant links rather than […]

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