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Bing Powered Yahoo in Beta

July 16th, 2010

According to an email from Yahoo (shown left) Bing powered results are now being tested on Yahoo’s live engine.Search Engine RoundTable mentioned offline testing being done some time back:
Did you know that Bing is already or will very soon begin testing powering Yahoo’s search results? Yes, in Yahoo Search, you should [...]

 
 

Yahoo’s European Directories Closing,One by One

June 20th, 2010

It was only as recently as 1996 that Yahoo opened their search engine directory in Germany. Now, less than 15 years later, that is shutting down, as well as search directories in several other European countries.
According to AnteZeta:
Yahoo! has closed some of their European directories sometime this year – their Italian and German directory [...]

 
 

YouTube Launches Secret Project – Using Bloggers.

June 19th, 2010

…making it not so secret after all.
According to a blogger with the SF Appeal, YouTube sent out a letter asking for help with a ’super secret project’:
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:20 PM < [Redacted]@youtube.com> wrote:
Hi xxx,
I am leading a project at YouTube and I thought you might like to be a part [...]

 
 

Yahoo’s Front Page Loses Leader

June 1st, 2010

The man responsible for Yahoo’s wildly successful home page has left the building, according to Business Insider and All Things D. Tapan Bhat was hired by Yahoo back in 2005, stealing him from Adobe. Bhat ran ‘Front Doors’ as well as being a leading force behind many of Yahoo’s social media applications. In 2009, he [...]

 
 

Yahoo Moves Away from Search, Plunges Into the Content Mill Realm

May 19th, 2010

Yet another major move away from search for former competitor Yahoo – the now primarily news portal with Search powered by former rival Microsoft, Yahoo just bought content mill Associated Content for a reported cool hundred million.
According to Beacon Equity:
The purchase of AC, the freelance-writers Web site that resells content on a wide variety [...]