Next week marks the one year anniversary of Yahoo’s restructuring that put Bartz at the helm. According to Bloomberg.com, The CEO of Autodesk Inc. from 1992 to 2006, Bartz took the reins at Yahoo from the company’s co-founder Jerry Yang. He rankled investors in 2008 by spurning a $47.5 billion takeover attempt by Microsoft. Yang [...]
Yahoo – After the Coup, One Year Later
January 9th, 2010Yahoo’s Progeny Celebrate Milestones
May 25th, 2009According to the Yahoo Search blog, since launching SearchMonkey last May and Yahoo! Search BOSS last July, impressive strides have been made for both applications. BOSS is now serving 30 million queries a day, and SearchMonkey is currently live in 23 markets around the world. SearchMonkey has a most impressive rack record, with a [...]
Monetization for Yahoo BOSS, Twitter
February 12th, 2009Yahoo has stated they plan to start charging for BOSS – the hitherto free API developers could use to build their own search engines. BOSS was launched last year to great acclaim, and gave individual web developers the freedom and ability to construct search engines for websites by accessing Yahoo’s own search technology. Yahoo! has [...]
Yahoogle Is Evolving
September 14th, 2008Yahoo is opening up their home page to third party developers! A huge redesign is in the works, carrying on the newfound tradition of Yahoo being more open, more versatile, more – like Google. The Search Monkey introduced earlier this year let developers manage how results were displayed, and BOSS has met with extreme applause [...]
Yahoo’s BOSS Returns Mixed Results
August 9th, 2008Yahoo’s Boss has been out for a month, and the mash-ups have been popping up right and left. Four were featured on the Yahoo blog this week, with a news timeline one winning the mash-up prize. Dipity’s NewsLine is something that I am looking forward to using, although it could still use a little work. [...]