Yahoo News: Mail, Search, Finance & Service Updates

AltaVista and Delicious to Close in 2011

December 17, 2010

It's a sad day for search as Yahoo! have announced they're to close the AltaVista search engine.

Yahoo! Bids to get its cool back

September 18, 2010

There was a time when Yahoo! was the portal everyone went to for search and social groups online.

Yahoo Sign-In Seal Protects Against Phishing

August 29, 2010

Determining if a website is real or fake is one of the greatest challenges for many Internet users.

Yahoo Sells Hotjobs To Monster, Protects Their Users

August 27, 2010

Dante just emailed me information about the purchase of Yahoo Hotjobs by Monster.

Remove Multiple Toolbars In Windows

August 9, 2010

Toolbars are not necessarily installed as standalone applications these days.

What Yahoo Knows About You, Ad Interest Manager

August 2, 2010

Companies have a lot of options to track desktop users on the Internet.

Yahoogle.co.jp!

July 28, 2010

Just as Microsoft and Yahoo! have joined forces in search, now Yahoo! Japan and Google have linked up too.

Yahoo Terminating Geocities

October 26, 2009

The Geocities era ends today with the termination of the once popular free web hosting service.

Yahoo Meme Opens Registrations For Anyone

October 8, 2009

We reviewed Yahoo Meme a while ago here at Ghacks and gave out several invites to Yahoo's Twitter-like service.

Xoopit To Become Yahoo Mail Exclusive

October 5, 2009

Xoopit, a company that was bought by Yahoo not long ago, developed email indexing and photo sharing technologies that have since then be integrated into Yahoo M

Yahoo Meme Invites

September 22, 2009

Yahoo Meme is more or less Yahoo's version of Twitter.

Yahoo Mail Integrates Drop.io To Support 100 Megabyte Attachments

September 11, 2009

Big companies are not only currently competing with each other in the search engine niche but also when it comes to webmail.

Yahoo Mail, Search And Messenger Upgrades

August 25, 2009

Yahoo announced upgrades to three of the companies major products and services.

Microsoft And Yahoo Finally Strike Deal

July 30, 2009

Well it seems that both Yahoo and Microsoft have reached an agreement regarding their search deal.

Public Beta Test Of New Yahoo Homepage

July 21, 2009

The Yahoo homepage is one of the most popular start pages on the Internet.

Flickr Tools Tag Galaxy

September 30, 2008

Tag Galaxy is one of those Flickr tools that visualizes Flickr image browsing utilizing tags and planetary constellations to show their related tags.

Customize RSS News Feeds With Yahoo Pipes

August 13, 2008

Yahoo Pipes is a very sophisticated online tool which might look intimidating at first glance due to its technical nature; it is however not as complicated to u

Yahoo Music will Refund its Customers

July 30, 2008

Last week, Martin posted about how Yahoo was planning to shut downits Yahoo! Music store on 30th September, 2008.

Retrieve Original Size Of Any Flickr Photo

July 27, 2008

Flickr users have the option to turn off the show "All Sizes" option when uploading photos to the popular image hoster.

Yahoo Does A Microsoft

July 25, 2008

After the fiasco that Microsoft experienced when they made the announcements that they would turn off the MSN Music servers one would have thought that other co

Show The Song That You Are Playing In Yahoo Messenger

July 18, 2008

I was not very pleased with the guys who decided to publish the songs that they were listening to in public IRC channels back in the days when I was using IRC [

Encrypt your instant messages with Pidgin

May 21, 2008

Pidgin is an Open Source multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that was formerly known as Prince Gaim.

Yahoo bans The Pirate Bay

February 17, 2008

If you perform a search for the major torrent website The Pirate Bay you expect it to be the number one search result for its main keyword due to its popularity.

Yahoo integrating Delicious into search results

January 19, 2008

Just got word that Yahoo Search has started integrating information from Del.

Flickr Pro Account for 15 months instead of 12

January 10, 2008

If you have the intention to get a Flickr Pro account you might find the following deal interesting that gives you three extra months for no additional charge.

Reevaluating Google is the best theory

October 28, 2007

I was thinking about looking at other services that I could try to see if they were any better than the Google services that I'm using at the moment when I came

A great way to search Flickr

October 20, 2007

The so called Flickr Related Tag Browser offers an interesting and comfortable way to search Flickr using tags.

How to avoid saving spaceball.gif at Flickr

September 29, 2007

Some images at Flickr are weakly protected with an image overlay called spaceball.

Flickr Best of 2006 Voting

May 29, 2007

A collection of the best photos published on Flickr in 2006 with an option to vote for all of them in a voting process that reminds me of those hot or not type