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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:17:15 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Jessica Bowman featured in Marie Claire Magazine]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/56617</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/56617</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:17:15 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Yahoo</category>
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<description><![CDATA[When life hands you lemons, don't just make lemonade! Think bigger than that! Roll out a nationwide chain of lemonade stands and cash out with an IPO. SEO Jessica Bowman was one of the first in the Yahoo! Brains to drain, but look who's laughing all<br/><br/>40 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo Officially Discontinued The Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/56185</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/56185</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:57:30 PDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/56185</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Barry Schwartz bids adieu to our favorite SEO 1.0 tool.<br/><br/>43 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comparing How Commercial Different Search Categories are for Search Advertising]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51245</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51245</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:47:07 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Yahoo</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51245</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Yahoo patent application introduces the idea of a search category commercialization index, which could be calculated by looking at two or more metrics: (1) Number of searches within the category; (2) Number of total advertisers in the category; <br/><br/>47 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Introducing New Bot: Yahoo Slurp 3.0]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/40574</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/40574</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:40:46 PDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/40574</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yahoo has announced the launch of their new crawler, Yahoo! Slurp 3.0. 3.0 is slowly being pushed out over the course of the &quot;next several weeks,&quot; including &quot;some infrastructure updates,&quot; Yahoo said. I suspect the recent changes we reported with the<br/><br/>36 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo to Test Run Google Ads Alongside its Search Results]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/39895</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/39895</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:41:29 PDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/39895</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In what appears to be a very carefully considered, strategically phrased statement this afternoon, Yahoo said it will actually test carrying Google's ads on its own pages, calling the test a &quot;strategic alternative.&quot; Microsoft isn't happy and quickly<br/><br/>47 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft to Yahoo - 3 Weeks and Counting]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/39000</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/39000</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:01:08 PDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/39000</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Apparently the line has been drawn in the sand by Microsoft's Steve Balmer in a letter sent to Yahoo today.  That line is three weeks to see some kind of progress in Microsoft's bid to take over Yahoo!<br/><br/>34 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo Layoffs Happening]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/28190</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/28190</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:09:58 PST</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/28190</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The expected Yahoo layoffs started a few hours ago. Two very good people I know are among those cut. No doubt we're going to be hearing from many more. Not much more to report about it at the moment, but I expect over the coming day, we'll have a be<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo Phrase Based Indexing in a Nutshell]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/28093</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/28093</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:12:13 PST</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/28093</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SEO by the Sea takes a detailed look at a Yahoo patent application which describes a number of the ways to learn and understand the use of phrases in documents on the Web.Longer post but worth the time to read for those interested in how search <br/><br/>33 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo Laying Off 1,000 Employees; Names New CTO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25817</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25817</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:08:18 PST</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25817</guid>
<description><![CDATA[After weeks of speculation, Yahoo announced on their fourth quarter earnings conference call that they will indeed be making layoffs, though a specific number was not given, according to CNBC.<br/><br/>38 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo Tests Delicious Integration In Search Results]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/24204</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/24204</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:04:42 PST</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/24204</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Well it seems on of the Big 3 decided to take a stab at playing in the social spaces. I am going to go play with it... cya!!Search Engine Land - Yahoo has sent word that they are testing integration of data from their Delicious social bookmarkin<br/><br/>35 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo Integrates Delicious Into Organic Search Results]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/23979</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/23979</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:47:30 PST</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/23979</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Techcrunch just got word that Yahoo is testing the integration of Delicious user generated bookmarks into Yahoo search results pages (Yahoo acquired Delicious in late 2005). Some users will see the Delicious icon as part of their normal search resul<br/><br/>53 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo Replaces PageRank Assumptions with User Data]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/23376</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/23376</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:05:59 PST</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/23376</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It's good to see folks in the search community challenging some assumptions behind PageRank, while introducing a new flavor of PageRank which replaces those assumptions with user data. A patent application from Yahoo, published last week, takes <br/><br/>58 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ShoeMoney®  Has His Yahoo Search Marketing Account Cancelled]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/18879</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/18879</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:11:18 PST</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/18879</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So Yahoo! came to him and told him that 65% of his traffic was from stolen credit cards, they have no way to track where the traffic exactly came from and that they were going to cancel his account.  You can read several email's with him and Michell<br/><br/>58 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo Search Launches Google Killer : Search Assist, Videos, Flickr Integration]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/7816</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/7816</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:14:49 PDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/7816</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yahoo today is rolling out a series of changes to their search technology which on the usability side addresses the need for educating the searcher and helping them perform the search query which will lead them to relevant results. And on the findab<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Many Yahoo Mash Pets Can You Zap?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6172</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6172</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:23:00 PDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6172</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Here's a neato game for a time-waster if you're not getting links to your blog: go zap a Yahoo! Mash pet!<br/><br/>24 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Staying at the Paris Hilton: Untangling Location Searches and Searcher Location]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2953</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2953</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:58:09 PDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2953</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yahoo explores methods to figure out a user's intent in location-based searches, and to identify the location of searchers, in a patent that was granted yesterday.<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[3 Reasons Yahoo! Local Search Can Dominate Google]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/3096</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/3096</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:24:30 PDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/3096</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yahoo! Local is exciting because it can be identified as one weak spot where Google can quickly be dethroned. Of course, that all depends on how things play out - but I'm impressed by what I am seeing. With that idea in mind, here are three reasons <br/><br/>25 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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