Yahoo MyBlogLog Discontinued

Yahoo is to discontinue and shut down MyBlogLog (www.mybloglog.com), a social network site for bloggers and the blogging community, that was originally developed by Cloudspace and was acquired by Yahoo in January 2007. How to Use MyBlogLog MyBlogLog allowed bloggers to create their communities and be identified as bloggers. MyBlogLog offered a web widget that [...]

Yahoo Exits Search, Replaces by Microsoft Adcenter and Bing

Yahoo and Microsoft finally agreed a deal in which Yahoo search will be powered by the search algorithm of Microsoft’s new search engine Bing. In return, Yahoo will receive a large portion of the search ad revenue. Changes in Paid Search Yahoo’s current organic search results and paid search results will be replaced by Bing’s [...]

Google Pulled Yahoo Ad Deal

Google ended all efforts in pursuit of the Yahoo-Google ad partnership. This effectively allows Yahoo’s search pages to be independent of any other formats of non-Yahoo search ads. Senior Vice President, David Drummond wrote on Google’s official blog: After four months of review, including discussions of various possible changes to the agreement, it’s clear that [...]

APT from Yahoo Launched

Yahoo announced the launch of the new advertising platform – APT from Yahoo! Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said on the YCorp Blog: I started dreaming about this day 18 months ago, when I laid out my vision for our board of directors on how Yahoo! could play a unique role in changing the face of [...]

Benefits of Yahoo-Google Partnership

Not long ago Yahoo have had long discussions with Microsoft about a possible partnership between the two giant companies. Rather on 12 June 2008 Yahoo found the right answers in Google. Google’s expertise and technologies in leveraging from paid search have eventually sealed the partnership with Yahoo. Google has been leveraging effectively from tail keywords [...]

Yahoo Mail Unlimited Storage

The launch of Gmail a couple of years ago has certainly changed the way we see and use web-based email services. I still remember when Google announced email users will never have to delete a single old email from their web-based mailboxes. It started with 1 Gigabyte of free storage and is still growing bigger. [...]

Yahoo Leading in Yellow Pages Searches

Yahoo is leading in Yellow Pages Searches with 23.9% of total US market share. Yahoo! Sites: 23.9% Verizon SuperPages: 20.1% Google Sites: 12.5% Yellowpages.com: 12.0% Time Warner Network: 7.7% Local.com: 5.9% InfoSpace Network: 5.1% Dexonline.com: 4.1% The results were recently released by comScore. According to comScore, The study is the second in a two-part series [...]

Top 20 Yahoo Misspelled Keywords

Yahoo! Buzz Log released their top 20 misspelled keywords. The keywords within ( ) are the corresponding correct spellings. 1. Rachel Ray (Rachael Ray) 2. Tatoos (Tattoos) 3. Scarlett Johanson (Scarlett Johansson) 4. Wierd Al Yankovic (Weird Al Yankovic) 5. Evanesence (Evanescence) 6. Soduku (Sudoku) 7. Barbara Streisand (Barbra Streisand) 8. Louis Vitton (Louis Vuitton) [...]

Yahoo Searcher Behavior

Director of Retail Category of Yahoo Search Marketing, Diane Rinaldo, provided good examples that indicate the importance of search behaviors to SEO strategists / SEO optimizers and PPC marketing specialists. In the auto industry, the majority of auto purchasers see search as the first place for information. Search helps auto purchasers to narrow the available [...]

Yahoo Parts Way with MSN Search

As of 1 July 2006, MSN will not longer display Yahoo! Search Marketing search results on its sponsored links. Yahoo! expect that MSN will continue to display Yahoo! Search Marketing Content Match listings and Sponsored Search listings in US and non-US markets respectively, beyond June 2006. However, Yahoo! announced that the Search traffic to its [...]

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