Yahoo! Still Rules E-Mail, Followed By Hotmail & GMail
So you have completely moved to GMail and think Yahoo! mail is a thing of the past. Even I had a similar feeling that GMail is now the most widely used web mail service, but only till I came across some statistics published by Hitwise according to which Yahoo! Mail is still the most widely used web mail (e-mail) service around the world. |
Yahoo! CEO: “Google Needs To Diversify”
Yes you heard it right. Carol Bartz, the Yahoo CEO, said in a BBC interview that Google needs to diversify to stay relevant. She even went on to say that search is 99.9% of Google’s bussiness and that Google has to a lot more than just search, while Google already is more than just search…. |
Yahoo!, Fox, Google serving malwares in ads
According to anti-virus firm Avast, ads provided by large providers like Google, Yahoo! and Fox are delivering malwares along with their ads. This does not affect only the three mentioned above. Avast termed this as the “probably the biggest ad poisoning ever made”. The poisoning discovered by them is said to affect almost all the… |
Yahoo integrates Twitter into search and its portals
Following the footsteps of Google and Microsoft, Yahoo has announced that tweets from Twitter users into its search engine. Most of the features will be available by the year’s end although Yahoo has already rolled out a few Twitter-integrated features. Yahoo is counting on the Twitter partnership to transform itself into a highly customizable social… |
Yahoo – Microsoft search deals gets the go-ahead
Microsoft and Yahoo announced this morning that both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission have approved an agreement between the two firms to have Microsoft’s Bing search engine power Yahoo’s sites. Microsoft and Yahoo engineers will now start working together to adapt Bing for Yahoo. The partnership means Yahoo will selling premium… |
Yahoo to be the default search engine in Firefox that ships with Ubuntu!
From now on, the Firefox Browser that is shipped with Ubuntu Linux will have Yahoo! Search as the default search engine in the Firefox Search bar. |