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December 17, 2008
Yahoo put out a rosy headline about their new data retention policy that limits the time they store data such as search logs, page views, and ad views, titled, "Yahoo! Sets New Industry Privacy Standard with Data Retention Policy." Great...
February 21, 2008
After my recent post explaining why a MSFT/YHOO merger would be good for the combined company because it would establish an obvious #2 for pay per click advertising dollars, I was pleased to learn that I was not alone in...
February 8, 2008
It's funny how absurd web hosting data limits become if they're not routinely updated to reflect ongoing cost decreases. Here's an example from yesterday: Jason Kottke linked to a webpage that happens to be hosted on Yahoo's Geocities free publishing...
January 28, 2008
Let's say you have an Amazon wishlist that you'd like to syndicate onto your blog. While Amazon does provide some widgets for this, none of them are as simple as just giving you an RSS feed you can format yourself....
October 26, 2007
Reggie Nicolay at Technology for Real Estate has an interesting post title about how Yahoo Pipes could be used to refine real estate search. The post itself does more to explain Yahoo Pipes than how it could be applied to...
September 15, 2007
Steve Rubel Twittered last night saying: Checking out blognation. Like it but wish I could subscribe to individual bloggers. http://us.blognation.com/ He raises a great point. It can be annoying on multi-author blogs to have to read everything when you're only...
August 20, 2007
I don't know if Yahoo Pipes has gained much traction since launching, but I do know that I find the service useful. For those who aren't familiar with it, it's a relatively easy to use platform for creating RSS feed...
July 19, 2007
This afternoon is turning out to be a rough one for Google. First, they reported less than expected earnings that sent the stock price dropping $40 as of this writing. Then NetApplication's monthly newsletter shipped with news that Yahoo has...
May 12, 2007
Just over a year ago, Apple's legal department told a 14 year old girl to shut her pie-hole after she suggested to the company in a hand-written letter that they include song lyrics with songs purchased through the iTunes music...
March 29, 2007
Yahoo's getting crushed by Google in search right now, but maybe they're on to something with the interface they're testing over at livesearch.alltheweb.com. The site offers real-time updates to search results as you type, so searches become more relevant as...
January 20, 2007
I noticed in our web stats that visitors are asking whether pinging a blog will increase inbound links. Here's the short answer: Pinging your blog does not increase the number of inbound links your site receives. And here's the long-winded...
January 6, 2007
Ben was ready to roll on January 1st with his technology predictions for 2007. Me? I needed a few days to figure things out. But this leaves me with only 360 days for things to come true. We'll have to...
January 1, 2007
Page views have long been the metric of choice for measuring the ad potential of web sites. It's not hard to understand that with every page view comes a group of ads, so the more pages you serve, the more...
December 17, 2006
Red Herring has reported on a comScore report stating that Fox Interactive, largely through Myspace, has surpassed Yahoo as the top dog for monthly page views: Fox Interactive Media’s total U.S. page views increased to 39.5 million from 38.7 million...
December 4, 2006
Dan Theurer is a co-founder of GNoTE, a technology evangelist for Yahoo, and former IBM employee. Theurer moved to the United States three years ago from Stuttgart, Germany. Theurer discussed the role of technology evangelists at Yahoo, how they fit...
November 7, 2006
Today is Election Day in the United States, so I thought it would be a fitting day to take a look at where we'll be sending our elected officials to: Washington, DC. Or more precisely, the US Capitol. That's what...
October 23, 2006
Yahoo's syndication of local news to an national - actually international - market should help make the world smaller. While we've been able to track news of interest to us from local papers across the country and world for some...
October 18, 2006
"That's where they got that Picasso." -Jake Blues - The Blues Brothers Jake Blues' proved to be more than your average convict musician with his comment about the artwork in Richard J. Daley Plaza. He was referring to this:...
September 29, 2006
This was originally a response to an email question I received from a colleague about social bookmarking sites, but it turned into a blog post. While it covers social bookmarking in general, it focuses primarily on del.icio.us for examples: The...
September 19, 2006
Yahoo has accounted a partnership with Acer to make Yahoo the default search engine on Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers shipped with new computers. Yahoo search to run on all PCs of Taiwan's Acer - Yahoo! News Yahoo Inc. has signed...
September 14, 2006
Andrew Goodman reports that Yahoo search results are now displaying a PayPal shopping cart icon alongside sponsored search results from retailers using PayPal's checkout system. Is this a reaction to Google Checkout's integration with Adwords? What does this tell us...
September 12, 2006
An interesting move by Yahoo into free group conference calling: Yahoo Messenger offers free group conference calls - Yahoo! News "Yahoo Inc. is offering free group conference calling services from Vapps Inc. to the roughly 80 million users of Yahoo's...
August 28, 2006
Marketwatch is reporting that Google has landed an exclusive ad deal for Ebay's international properties. Yahoo will remain Ebay's ad network of choice for the US property: eBay, Google up on ad deal - MarketWatch Shares of the largest Internet...
August 26, 2006
Less than a month ago, I mentioned that Technorati had switched from Google Adwords to Yahoo Search Marketing as their ad server of choice on search results pages. At the time, the ads looked like this: And now they look...
August 25, 2006
Seth Godin reflected on the difference between Yahoo and Google's homepages in 1999 and why it mattered during a Feb speach at the Googleplex: "What happened was geeks and nerds and early adopters and people like me: the ones who...
August 13, 2006
Amazon Associates has a new search engine spider that checks from broken affiliate links to their site. They want to make sure you're properly pointing visitors to their site so they make money and you will to. As an added service, it also checks non-Amazon links on your site to see if they're working.
August 11, 2006
Steve Rubel posted about a recent story on Marketwatch that questions Google's future due to its lackluster performance in a few hot sectors, including blogging, social networking, and video sites.
August 2, 2006
Technorati has switched from using Google AdSense to Yahoo Search Marketing to monetize their search results. The Ebay.com ad below is served by Yahoo (formerly Overture):
July 21, 2006
Yahoo has rolled out a new Yahoo Finance badge creator that allows website owners to easily syndicate stock quotes with charts and headline onto your website or blog.
May 12, 2006
Yahoo Finance has been a real stand-out feature among Yahoo's various products for almost a decade now. While it continues to be an amazingly valuable feature, some sections within Y! Finance are very overdue for a facelift including the message boards.
April 28, 2006
Michael Arrington reported on Techcrunch today the launch of Yahoo's new Local Featured Listing platform that allows businesses to purchase advertising on relevant yellow pages-like category pages for a flat monthly fee varying by category.
March 29, 2006
Once you find an online news site you like, how do you keep up to date with that site's content? Personally, I tend to use a process that goes something like this:
1. Type in the address (with autocomplete) to get back to the site.
2. Bookmark the site once I find myself going back regularly.
3. Subscribe to the site in order to bring the content to me rather than checking in for new content.
February 12, 2006
Do you use Google or MSN as your primary search engine? If yes, what would it take to get you to switch to Yahoo? This is the question Yahoo is trying to answer through a poll of their email users according to a story late last week from CNET.
February 3, 2006
We try to cover and comment on one interesting story or concept a day on Technology Evangelist. This allows us to focus on generating quality content that is both informative and opinionated. However, one drawback to this is some stories fall through the cracks. So today I'm throwing things open to you - our readers - to share your opinions with us on a few stories I've found interesting, but haven't been able to investigate in depth enough to warrant full posts:
January 29, 2006
Under this scenario, a company like Yahoo could pay for prioritized bandwidth, causing their site's content to be delivered faster than Google's. Communications companies, including AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth see prioritized bandwidth as a way to generate new revenue from content providers. This is a hot issue deserving attention from internet users because congress is updating the 1996 Telecommunications Act this year.
January 22, 2006
Yahoo recent quarterly results disappointed investors when their net income only rose 32% over a year ago. The market punished their stock, taking billions off their market cap.
January 15, 2006
Web usability Guru, Jakob Nielsen, has posted a new column called
"Search
Engines as Leeches of the Web" that outlines the challenges faced by
pay per click advertisers.
January 9, 2006
One of the big announcements at the 2006 International CES Show this week came at Larry Page's keynote where he announced that Google is now offering paid video content through their video service. This upgrade to Google Video allows people to rent or buy video content from major content providers, including the NBA, and more than 300 classic television shows from CBS. However, the press I've seen so far overvalues the role the CBS partnership will play in Google's long-term plans for their video service.
December 27, 2005
The "people vs Google" argument concept bugs me because it ignores the main factor that makes Google Google: link popularity generated by people.
December 16, 2005
Explains why you should upload your photos to the web, and explains why Flickr is a good place to do this.
December 15, 2005
An analysis of Yahoo Search Marketing's transition to 70 character character limits on ad descriptions.
December 13, 2005
Five tips on how to efficiently conduct online competitive research.
December 9, 2005
Yahoo acquires Del.icio.us. What does that mean for social bookmarking?
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