Should Yahoo have stuck with being a search engine and spreading the SEO market around a little? Ditching their own search results in favor of Bing driven SERPs, Yahoo moved towards being more of a content source and news site. Carol Bartz spearheaded the change, but now she’s been chopped from Yahoo’s staff. After being [...]
Yahoo Fires Bartz, Founders After Abandoning Search
September 8th, 2011Bing and Yahoo SEO Tools Combined
September 1st, 2011In a move that some experts felt was long overdue, Bing and Yahoo webmaster tools have been integrated. It only makes sense, and while the transition has been expected for some time, it has left many users with questions that haven’t been fully answered yet. For the most part, everything will be the same as [...]
Delicious to Change Hands?
May 11th, 2011YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have struck a deal to acquire Delicious (Previously known as Del.ic.ous) from Yahoo through their new tech launch AVOS. Yahoo acquired Delicious in 2005, and the marriage has been rocky ever since. Just because it wasn’t all sunshine and roses for the pair hardly means Yahoo wanted to [...]
What does the Future Hold for Bartz and Yahoo?
October 8th, 2010Recently, several top execs left Yahoo, and this sparked rumors that Bartz herself might be leaving. Bartz commented on the exodus, saying, “each executive is leaving, “for different reasons that suit their life.”” Yahoo released a statement: Yahoo! today announced the departures of Hilary Schneider, Yahoo!’s EVP Americas Region; David Ko, SVP Audience, Mobile and [...]
The New Yahoo?
September 19th, 2010Greg Sterling of Search Engine Land mentions what he feels are some of the best things about the ‘New Yahoo’ in his post, which examines the direction Yahoo is going, so read his full post – but here’s a teaser of what impressed him in Yahoo’s new bundle of tricks: A new version of Yahoo [...]