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Finally, after months of shareholder pressure and less than impressive Yahoo! performance, Terry Semel, now ex-CEO of Yahoo!, relinquished the reigns of the struggling search and advertising company. The move sparked a reshuffle at the top of the Yahoo! executive ladder.Original Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang has replaced Semel as Yahoo! CEO, with Sue Decker, former ...
Ask.com is snapping on the heels of Google Universal Search with Ask 3D, the integration of all its search verticals into one main results page. 'Nothing new' you say... well there are some fundamental and surprisingly great differences between Ask 3D and Google Universal!The '3D' given to the new Ask.com search service relates to the ...
The Yahoo! Search Blog announced they have completed an update to their algorithm last week. The update is set to effect how their algorithm ranks web pages and determines which sites are included in the search index.From the Yahoo! Search blog:"We rolled out some changes to our index and ranking algorithm last night. So, as ...
Google released Google Universal Search in mid May 2007 which saw the integration of all its various search verticals including Google Maps, Google Images and Google Video into the main web results.Although Google Universal Search has only been around for under a month, early results from a recent study by Hitwise show the biggest winners ...
Is this a case of Anti-trust deja vu? Search giant Google is taking Microsoft to case over its new Windows Vista operating system, claiming the operating system unfairly inhibits users from using alternative applications.Cast your minds back to the late 90's and you will recall a similar case involving Microsoft, and then browser competitor Netscape. ...
Google have just updated their webmaster guidelines to provide even more information for website owners looking to follow Google best practices. Google inclusion is a vital source of exposure and traffic for many websites, so understanding and adhering to the Google Webmaster Guidelines is critical for all website owners - especially those just starting out.Matt ...
We have all been wowed by the new Street View functionality in Google Maps - I was thinking of the great benefits this could have for local businesses - potential customers can now visit your storefront before they ever see you in person! Others, however, are increasingly concerned about the privacy issues this new service ...
Local search is a hot topic at the moment and now the focus is moving beyond just getting a local listing for your business. With major search engines like Google and Yahoo! displaying local listings in the main search results, the challenge for businesses is to get their local listing ranking above competitors. Below I ...
Yahoo!, one of the biggest names in online search has said that personalization is now more important than search, in what some are saying is an admission of defeat to Google.The comments came from said Tapan Bhat, vice president of Yahoo!'s personalized home page at the Next Web conference in Amsterdam."The future of the web ...
"Google ranking this and Google ranking that"... it's all everyone talks about. But a recent report by Infospace highlights the need for online businesses to focus their search engine optimization efforts across more than just Google.Yes - Google does carry the most significant share of the market with well over 49% of all searches*, so ...