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Search Engine Watch June 6, 2006 Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo MyWeb Gets New Look, Easier Browsing & Viewing Features Yahoo's given its MyWeb bookmarking service a new look and new features, making it easier than before for people to find what others are saving and sharing on the service.  |
InternetNews June 29, 2005 |
Yahoo Search Gets Social Yahoo released a limited beta of My Web 2.0, a search personalization play that uses elements of social media to improve search results.  |
Search Engine Watch April 27, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Launches My Web Personal Search Yahoo has beefed up its personal search with a number of new features and tools, expanding the capabilities of the My Yahoo personal search features that the company launched last October.  |
Search Engine Watch November 2, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Where Tagging Works: Searching for a Good Game A new site jumps on the tagging bandwagon and actually ends up with useful search results. Why? Because it's narrowly focused on a specific topic and has a large degree of agreement among its user community.  |
Information Today April 25, 2005 Paula J. Hane |
Search Engines Roll Out New Personalization Options Several major search engines, such as Ask Jeeves and Yahoo!, are offering personalization upgrades to retain searchers.  |
Search Engine Watch October 25, 2006 Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Updates Toolbar and Bookmarks Yahoo is releasing a new version of its toolbar with a powerful new bookmarking feature that integrates seamlessly with Yahoo web search, and features a "radical" new user interface.  |
InternetNews October 25, 2006 Nicholas Carlson |
Yahoo Gears Toolbar, Bookmarks For Social Search Yahoo counters Google's social search announcement with its own.  |
Search Engine Watch October 5, 2004 Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Introduces Personal Search Yahoo has enhanced its My Yahoo service with personalization features including search history, the ability to save pages to a 'personal web' and block URLs from appearing in search results.  |
Search Engine Watch July 26, 2006 Chris Sherman |
Diigo Offers "Social Annotation" Tool Combining bookmarks with sharing, tagging, annotation and very powerful search tools, Diigo is an appealing, evolutionary step forward in how we find, consume and share information on the web.  |
BusinessWeek April 11, 2005 Heather Green |
Picking Up Where Search Leaves Off Websites like del.icio.us and Flickr allow people to tag and share content, providing an alternative to search engines for finding things.  |
InternetNews June 6, 2006 Nicholas Carlson |
Your Web Can be Yahoo's Latest MyWeb Is Yahoo taking another step ahead of Google in social search integration?  |
Search Engine Watch August 3, 2004 Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Targets Google, Yellow Pages with New Local Search Yahoo has rolled out a feature-laden beta version of its local search service, sharply upping the ante in the rapidly evolving local search sweepstakes.  |
Information Today October 17, 2005 Paula Berinstein |
Yahoo! Debuts Two New Tools for Mining Expert Information Recognizing that expert reporters can be found outside the media, Yahoo! has just begun beta testing two new tools for locating information from non-mainstream sources: News Search Now with Blogs Beta and Yahoo! Podcasts Beta  |
Search Engine Watch May 17, 2006 Chris Sherman |
A Closer Look at Google Notebook Google's new Notebook tool lets you clip text, images or search results and save them in online notebooks that you can share with others. How does Google's new tool stack up against the competition?  |
Search Engine Watch April 20, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Google Personalizes the Web Say goodbye to bookmarks: Google's My Search History feature automatically keeps track of web searches and every page viewed from search results by saving your "search behavior," not web pages.  |
InternetNews April 27, 2005 Tim Gray |
Yahoo Launches 'My Web' Beta Users can create a personal search engine with the new tools offered by Yahoo's My Web. This personalized search tool competes with Google's My Search History.  |
InternetNews February 10, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Yahoo Toolbar For Firefox Yahoo beta release adds features for users of Mozilla's open source browser.  |
D-Lib April 2005 Hammond et al. |
Social Bookmarking Tools (I): A General Review Just as long as old links are managed, tagged, commented upon, and published onto the Web, they represent a user's own personal library placed on public record, which - when aggregated with other personal libraries - allows for rich, social networking opportunities.  |
InternetNews March 15, 2006 |
Facelift For Yahoo's Home Page Yahoo is quietly launching a redesigned front page that makes its search features more prominent and puts all its various services front and center for users.  |
Search Engine Watch March 22, 2004 Greg Jarboe |
Yahoo News Upgrades To Take On Google News Yahoo released a new version of its news search engine late last week, a new move in what may be a modern-day version of the great newspaper wars.  |
Information Today March 19, 2007 |
Yahoo! Answers Adds Personal Networking Yahoo! Answers, a Q&A site on the Web, has introduced "knowledge networking," an easy way for people to connect to others online and to build a personal network of people to exchange knowledge with on specific areas of interest.  |
InternetNews June 2, 2006 |
Did Yahoo! Video Flickr to Life? Yahoo is re-launching Yahoo! Video, in a bid to compete with Google Video and the increasingly popular video sharing site YouTube.com.  |
Search Engine Watch August 15, 2006 Chris Sherman |
What's the Big Deal With Social Search? Social search is garnering a lot of attention these days, but despite all the hoopla it's not likely to displace traditional algorithmic search any time soon.  |
D-Lib January 2006 Guy & Tonkin |
Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags? Possibly the real problem with folksonomies in not their chaotic tags but that they are trying to serve two masters at once; the personal collection, and the collective collection.  |
Search Engine Watch May 6, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo's Search Engine Continues Evolving A new page dedicated just to Yahoo Search has been added, allowing those who want to bypass all the Yahoo portal and network information that crowds the regular Yahoo home page. The Yahoo Search page presents a Google-like pure search face to the world.  |
Search Engine Watch June 22, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Yahoo to the Max Extreme searcher Ran Hock has published a new book, this time taking an in-depth look at the wide range of tools and services offered by Yahoo.  |
PC Magazine February 8, 2006 Davis D. Janowski |
Yahoo! Local Maps (beta) This service forgoes a lot of the glitzy features in favor of a clean straightforward interface and good routing features. It provides a quick means of locating local places and things from within an intuitive interface -- and it's still only a beta.  |
InternetNews May 25, 2006 Nicholas Carlson |
Yahoo's del.icio.us Tag Trip Yahoo bought the social book-marking site del.icio.us in December. It's been nearly six months. Is anything going on over there?  |
Search Engine Watch January 7, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo To Buy Inktomi If all goes as planned, Yahoo will become the proud owner of Inktomi by the end of March or earlier. The company announced its intention to buy Inktomi for $235 million on December 23. A look at how the deal may help Yahoo bring in more searchers, as well as search revenue.  |
Search Engine Watch June 8, 2006 Danny Sullivan |
Look Out Wikipedia, Here Comes Yahoo Answers! New stats add fuel to the idea that Yahoo Answers is perhaps becoming a social interacting phenomenon like YouTube or MySpace. A look at the service's growth and how it works.  |
Search Engine Watch August 16, 2006 Chris Sherman |
Who's Who in Social Search Many players, big and small, are working in the social search space. Here's a look at who's doing what to harness the power of human beings in improving search.  |
Entrepreneur October 2007 Catherine Seda |
Tag, You're It! Tagging content on social sites is serious business.  |
Search Engine Watch July 21, 2004 Christine Churchill |
Meet The Crawlers Representatives of Yahoo, Google, Ask Jeeves and Looksmart offer an inside glimpse of recent developments at the major search engines. The general focus for the major search engines continues to be on the user experience.  |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2004 Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - The New Yahoo! Search With all the changes at various search engines, Yahoo! has now risen to the top as one of the major places to look beyond Google.  |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2010 Rose Holley |
Tagging Full Text Searchable Articles: An Overview of Social Tagging Activity in Historic Australian Newspapers August 2008 - August 2009 This article gives an overview of the public reaction to and utilization of the tagging facility in a full-text searchable collection, and provides statistics over a year's duration, observations on the use of tagging and suggestions for future developments.  |
ONLINE Nov/Dec 2004 Greg R. Notes |
Internet Search Engine Update Ask Jeeves joins the push for local search... Google and Yahoo! now have their own blogs... Lycos has introduced two new focused search engines: People Search and Discussion Search... MSN Search's technology preview of its new search engine is now gone ... etc.  |
Search Engine Watch June 23, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Visualizing Yahoo Search Results Grokker, a visual search tool that clusters related search results together in conceptually related categories, is now available in an online version, free of charge.  |
ONLINE May 2000 Danny Sullivan |
Avoid the Void: Quick and Easy Site Submission Strategies "If I build it, they will come."
This is one of the worst assumptions a Webmaster can make. No one will come unless you also promote your Web site, and search engines are one of the most important places to do this....  |
Search Engine Watch January 11, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Launches Desktop Search Long anticipated, Yahoo's new Desktop Search beta is a solid contender in the increasingly crowded desktop search playing field.  |
InternetNews October 18, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Yahoo Ads Have Room to Grow Yahoo beat analyst estimates, with strong growth from both advertising and paid consumer services including music downloads. The company also has plans for new services, including local search.  |
The Motley Fool May 28, 2004 Brian Gorman |
Yahoo! Aims at Spyware Yahoo! continues to show its agility by introducing an anti-spyware feature to its toolbar.  |
InternetNews May 13, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner |
Search Engines: What's the Difference? Yahoo! Google and Ask Jeeves go toe-to-toe in frank discussion of which technology yields the best results.  |
The Motley Fool June 17, 2005 Brian Gorman |
Yahoo!'s Superfluous Service Search subscription-only sites, but you'll only be able to access the full text if you subscribe to the site being searched.  |
ONLINE Nov/Dec 2003 Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb has expanded the number of file types it indexes... Gigablast has been rather busy -- adding full Boolean searching, the indexing of PDF and other file types, and some metatags... Google has introduced a new operator, the tilde, for searching synonyms... etc.  |
InternetNews October 12, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Cooking Up Social Media Yahoo's Berkeley lab is working on tools to enable personal content creation and contextual search -- and to beat Google in the media game.  |
InternetNews June 20, 2006 Nicholas Carlson |
Searching For The Wisdom of The Crowd Yahoo prepares for the next battle frontier with search giant Google: social search.  |
Search Engine Watch January 5, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Search Resolutions for the New Year Now's an ideal time to reflect on your searching habits and ring in some changes that will make you a more effective searcher in the year to come.  |
InternetNews January 11, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Yahoo Latest in Desktop Search Play The Internet portal's beta desktop search tool is the latest addition to the competitive desktop search arena.  |
Search Engine Watch August 11, 2004 Chris Sherman |
Capturing Your Personal Web Forget bookmarks: Web content managers like ContentSaver allow you to create your own personal, searchable cache of web pages.  |
InternetNews March 1, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Yahoo Opens Up to Developers Release of APIs allows developers to build applications that take advantage of Yahoo's technology and services. Yahoo is also rebranding Overture and launching a new Advertising Solutions Center.  |