Yahoo today unveiled a new version of their online email client, improving the performance, search and spam filtering as well as unlimited storage, mobile and social media integration. Every Yahoo Mail user can switch the interfaceto Yahoo Mail Beta with options to go back to the old Yahoo Mail (available under Help > Return to [...]

Categories: Email, Yahoo

Whenever I find an interesting extension for one web browser, I try to find an extension with a similar functionality for others as well. Today I discovered the Chrome extension Video Viewer, which added the option to play linked videos directly on the pages they were linked from. That’s a time saver, considering that you [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

There was a time when Yahoo! was the portal everyone went to for search and social groups online.  Sadly Google stole the company’s crown and now Yahoo! has even slipped into third place in search behind Microsoft’s Bing engine.  Now though Yahoo! is releasing new upgraded services in an effort to make itself cool again [...]

Categories: Yahoo

Determining if a website is real or fake is one of the greatest challenges for many Internet users. Criminals have honed their skills in the past years to create websites that look in all design aspects as the real deal. Only information displayed by the browser aids in the verification process. What if there was [...]

Categories: Yahoo

Dante just emailed me information about the purchase of Yahoo Hotjobs by Monster. We have seen Yahoo sell assets in the past and this is just another one of them. What’s more interesting is the fact how the transfer of user data has been negotiated. Yahoo could have simply given Monster access to the Hotjobs [...]

Categories: Uncategorized

The latest US search engine market share statistics compiled by Nielsen have been released and they confirm a trend that we have predicted for some time now. Microsoft’s Bing search engine managed to grow from 9% to 13.6 in the last twelve months, while Yahoo fell sharply from 17.1% to 14.3 and Google Search moderately [...]

Categories: Search Engines

Companies have three options to track desktop users on the Internet, cookies, Flash cookies and network related activities. All three can be used by third parties to track an Internet user’s movement on the Internet, to record interests and activities. Most tracking companies sell those information to advertisers who in return display relevant advertisement to [...]

Categories: The Web

Just as Microsoft and Yahoo! have joined forces in search, now Yahoo! Japan and Google have linked up too. Yahoo!’s Japanese search engine will now use Google’s technology rather than stick with fellow partner Microsoft and their Bing search engine as reported by NeoWin.

Categories: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo

Yahoo and Microsoft have been testing Bing powered search results offline for some time now. A recent email sent out to advertisers confirmed that the testing will be moved to the live search results shortly. During that period part of Yahoo’s Live search results will be powered by Bing, “with paid search volume in particular [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Search Engines, Yahoo