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Mozilla Enters 5-year Partnership with Search Provider Yahoo Makers of the Firefox browser have dropped Google as their default search page in favor of Yahoo. Yahoo is also stepping up its game with a new streamlined user interface, available Firefox users first then rolling out to all users early next year. Read More >> Facebook […]
When Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer sent out her controversial memo on February 22nd telling remote employees that they had to begin working from the office it was met with strong criticism from a large portion of the tech public. Her employees are reportedly “very upset” and even Virgin Founder Sir Richard Branson weighed in on […]
It seems strange to say but, for those old enough to remember, there was a time when internet searches were not dominated by Google. Prior to its arrival, the one time alpha and omega of search engines was Alta Vista (founded in 1995). One can still find Alta Vista (resurrected by Yahoo) bravely hanging on […]
Today is a sad day for those of us in the SEO industry. Yahoo Site Explorer is being boxed for good and as of today will be the last day you will be able to use it. Yahoo announced on Friday 18th that they would be that they would be shutting down the service. Many […]
Back on February 13th we reported here that a paid listing on Business.om had killed the Yahoo! results for a client of ours. We had the listing removed from Business.com and I spoke with them and asked that any feeds sent to Yahoo! not include our client. One of the indicators of the issue was […]
We have a client. Alright, we have more than one but there’s one client specifically that I’ll be writing about here – let’s call him Bruce. Bruce decided one day to purchase a Featured Listing on Business.com. Now, by itself this isn’t a bad idea. In fact, in many cases it might even be a […]
Well the fine folks over at Google have come up with a response to Friday’s bid by Microsoft for Yahoo! Now, believe me – I understand that business is business and that Google has to respond with a negative spin against their competitors but the blog post and press release they put out made me […]
Today, being Thursday, was the day that Jim Hedger and I host our weekly radio show on Webmaster Radio. it was a great show with a focus on Yahoo! in the news and a great interview with Applied SEO’s John Carcutt. There were two big stories about Yahoo! going on. The first was the introduction […]
Today is a good day. As we all look towards a weekend that extends for a couple extra days, as many of us share the opportunity to get together with friends and family and as we ponder all the resolutions we’re going to break in the new year. But for none of us is today […]
