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Yahoo Search Suggest has launched, a tool that suggest words to search for as you start typing. Yahoo's not the first to offer this type of feature, but it's nice to see it come to the service. read more »
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I use Yahoo alot, as in I use Yahoo for business and personal most hours that I am awake. Which is why I am surprised that I didn’t notice all of the small little changes they have been making. After taking a step back and giving the Yahoo SERPs a read more »
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"Yesterday I attended the Internet strategy conference in Portland, and one of the speakers was Cammie Dunaway, the chief marketing officer for Yahoo.

During her presentation, she explained some new ways that Yahoo is working with advertisers, an read more »
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New Travel Shortcuts In Yahoo Search read more »
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A subjective look at 10 Yahoo! properties (News, Messenger, Answers, etc) that are among the leaders in their particular market segment, or are particularly innovative. read more »
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In an ever growing need to capture market share, improve user satisfaction, and gain user retention rates, Yahoo has just released an updated user interface of its SERP’s. Following in the steps of Ask.com’s new and improved UI, Yahoo has produced a read more »
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Shoemoney asks a good question, what would happen if firefox partnered with Yahoo instead of Google read more »
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Who agrees with this? I'm still finding Google results more in line with what I'm looking for. read more »
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Yahoo! Local recently made some changes that will change the face of local forever but will it be enough to dominate Google in this sector as Eric Lander competently asserts? read more »
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Over at Yahoo Audio you can now search and find teasers of tracks available online. Multimedia Search Optimization Campaigns (MSO) enjoy a boost. read more »
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Tim Mayer, VP of Search at Yahoo answers this question (thanks Mike Grehan) and more in a short video interview during SES San Jose. Thanks to Tim for being such a good sport! read more »
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Upcoming.org is a step in the right direction but Yahoo has a long way to go to catch up to the relevance Google has in the minds of searchers. read more »
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Yahoo is going to be returning public images from Flickr in image searches, using those images' meta data (i.e., tags) to determine relevance. read more »
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[Forgive me if this has been commented about before]

How well does un-tweaked Wordpress blogs rank in Yahoo. My wordpress blog ranks #4 in Google for my main phrase but in Yahoo I'm #45.

I do use my own domain name for it, but I did check for read more »
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According to Compete data there are roughly 7.5 billion search queries performed every month by the US Online Population. However there are only about 5 billion search referrals every month. This means that roughly 1/3 of all searches in some sense read more »
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I must say that I like the new design and interface that Yahoo! is using for Search.

This morning I was doing a SEO run and my link stats were coming-up blank. I went to see why and, well shucks, everything was different.

Go to http://search.y read more »
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Well it seems 'theLisa' is jumping into the Blended Search happenings with a write up on Yahoo's latest roll out... and my head is really starting to spin.. Social Search, Personalized Search, Universal search.... oooo the freakin pain!!!

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First impressions of the new Yahoo Search Assist function read more »
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If yours is a news based site or if your website needs to make any announcement than Yahoo! Upcoming is a great platform to announce. Think of how a press release helps in optimizing your site, this works in a similar pattern. But, Yahoo! Upcoming h read more »
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Yahoo Site Explorer has just had a big backlink update making link counts a LOT lower. read more »
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The Yahoo! SERPs now include an embedded RSS feed that points to the Yahoo! API, exactly as a blog embeds a feed you can subscribe to. Very cool and very useful! read more »
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Some irritating results from the recent Yahoo update. Yahoo has done such a nice job creating a great search environment for users...Yet very disappointing to see these things neglected. read more »
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Here is an awesome video that my good friend, David Cooley, created for me for use on www.GarryConn.com. If you have heard about Yahoo Pipes, this is a video tutorial that will show you how to use it. Yahoo Pipes is awesome and I use it to mash up m read more »
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Yahoo launches oneSearch sms service in India. The service is designed exclusively for mobile phones, and provides consumers anytime, anywhere information on their handsets. read more »
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How is Yahoo secretly profiting off their organic results?

By stuffing third party cookies into your browser of course. As you search for plane tickets yahoo is cloaking links to www.247realmedia.com (An Internet Marketing Company) before landing read more »
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