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Rumor: Yahoo could outsource search ads to GoogleMarket sources are saying that Yahoo is in talks with the search engine giant to possibly outsource search ads to them.This could become a major development for the company in their attempt to avoid getting acquired by Microsoft.Incidentally, reports also state that they are also in talks with [...]

Rumor: Yahoo could outsource search ads to Google
 
Yahoo announces deal with Google on sharing ad space on search results Surprise Surprise! Google and Yahoo might be rival search engine and online advertising companies but they are now joining hands. Yahoo has said in a statement that they are now going to run Google ads on some of their advertising space as part of a two [...]

Yahoo announces deal with Google on sharing ad space on search results
 
Yahoo committed to their advertising programInternet media giant Yahoo is in the middle of all the rumors and news nowadays. Microsoft wants to acquire it and they have placed a strong bid for the company.Yahoo has just announced a trial collaboration with Google where they are going to use their advertising on US based search [...]

Yahoo committed to their advertising program
 
Yahoo Japan to use Microsoft Silverlight technology Yahoo might be trying hard to stay away from Microsoft in the US market but their Japanese unit has announced the decision to embrace Silverlight for enhancing the search experience. The new updated web interface is expected to be released in the coming weeks. The company is also planning to use [...]

Yahoo Japan to use Microsoft Silverlight technology
 
Yahoo Slurp 3.0 launchedInternet media giant and search engine company Yahoo has announced that they have launched their latest version of their indexing engine.The company announced that Slurp 3.0 has been rolled out. Yahoo added that the publishers who identify the crawler using IP might see a drop in the activity from their spiders. A [...]

Yahoo Slurp 3.0 launched
 
Google happy to be working with rival YahooGoogle Chief Executive Eric Schmidt has been quoted as saying in the media that they are excited to work in partnership with the internet media giant Yahoo!He said in a statement: “It’s nice working with Yahoo and we like them very much.âHe did not however reveal any details [...]

Google happy to be working with rival Yahoo
 

Yahoo! BrowserPlus revealedInternet media giant Yahoo! has revealed yet another web service as they work hard on avoiding an acquisition by Microsoft.Yahoo! BrowserPlus service is online though not much seems to be explained by the company.The documentation states that the technology is designed to enable the web user to do more inside the web browser.The [...]

Yahoo! BrowserPlus revealed
 
Yahoo aims to improve social experience on their web servicesYahoo has finally decided to improve the social experience on their web services.The company now aims to become a social hub for web users by hosting applications from third party developers.A Yahoo representative said: “We are going to rewire the entire experience at Yahoo to make [...]

Yahoo aims to improve social experience on their web services
 
Yahoo! SearchMonkey Limited Preview launchedInternet media and search engine company Yahoo has announced a limited preview launch of their SearchMonkey technology.Yahoo said that this new developer platform would use structured data to enhance the functionality of their search engine.Third party developers would be able to build their own data services to improve the result of [...]

Yahoo! SearchMonkey Limited Preview launched
 
Jerry Yang took USD 1 as salary as CEO of Yahoo Internet media giant Yahoo has revealed that they paid their CEO and co-founder just USD 1 as a token salary last year. He has been taking home the same official pay since the last couple of years. He also did not receive any bonus, stock options or [...]

Jerry Yang took USD 1 as salary as CEO of Yahoo
 
Yahoo Buzz launches widgets and RSSYahooâs recently launched Digg challenger Yahoo Buzz has added some new features.They are now offering widgets and the much needed RSS feeds to support their service.The service is currently in beta and offers content from a limited number of web sites.Users are now allowed to generate widgets as per their [...]

Yahoo Buzz launches widgets and RSS
 
Yahoo Inc. and McAfee Inc. to work on search safetyInternet media giant Yahoo has said that they are now working with McAfee to improve the safety of their search results.Yahoo said that their search results would soon begin displaying red exclamation point and a warning next to links which McAfee believes are harmful for them.Priyank [...]

Yahoo Inc. and McAfee Inc. to work on search safety
 
Glue Pages Beta: Yahoo Search India gets merged result featureUS based internet media giant Yahoo has said that they are now beta testing mixing search results with data from different sources in India.The result pages on Yahoo India Search would now showcase text, images, and video results on a single results page.The company said that [...]

Glue Pages Beta: Yahoo Search India gets merged result feature
 
Yahoo acquires Inquisitor for Mac PlatformInternet media giant Yahoo has announced that they have now acquired Inquisitor software.Inquisitor is a plug in for Apple Safari web browser which auto-completes queries and delivers results right in Safari Web browser.This feature is similar to the Yahooâs own Search Assist technology but works on the Apple Mac platform [...]

Yahoo acquires Inquisitor for Mac Platform
 

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