A venture based on people search - Apr. 14, 2005
So I Googled I found a few biographies but oddly enough none mentioned what junior high school she attended Then I found a picture of her giving a speech at the previous years conference Sigh Junior high school crush reborn virtually
Im not alone No Im not talking about the crush thing Lots of people look up other people on the Internet And were not just talking old girlfriends and drinking buddies either Job applicants and other blind dates get looked up too...
Yahoo! Thinks Small
Yahoo Nasdaq may have recently turned 10 years old but it certainly isnt showing any geriatric tendencies Its continued push to increase its relevance in the Internet market not to mention the search market has resulted in a lot of new initiatives these days
And if Yahoos beefing up its certainly for a good cause survival Giants such as Google Nasdaq Microsofts Nasdaq and Time Warners America Online are all also pursuing the same revenues and users as Yahoo...
Yahoo! chief! scientist! joins! Microsoft!
Microsoft has hired Yahoos head of research and chief scientist Gary Flake to work on its portal and desktop search Flake joined Yahoo when it acquired Overture in He wasnt there long joining the previous year from research and most of Overtures key patents were filed before his arrival
However as Overtures chief science officer he oversaw the growth of the companys pioneering text classified ad business that was responsible for Overtures and later Yahoos phenomenal growth
Overture sued Google for patent violation in and Yahoo inherited the litigation Google settled in Yahoo...
Clicking in Brazil
Searching for a slice
So many upstarts are slicing Web search into so many nicheseg travel shopping tickets teensits easy to imagine that many of them will be too thin and slip through the cracks of consumer interest But while the searchmarketing dollars keep adding up vertical players will continue to line up for a share Or for a buyout by the three kings Google Yahoo or
Travelpostcom offers a nice twist on the travel genre however The new beta site lets people set up a travel blog and find getaway information such as maps...
Inside Yahoo News: Aggregator brings RSS to the masses
There are two ways to view Yahoo News One is to dismiss it as simply a collection of other peoples journalism slapped together and considered just another feature of a big Internet portal The other is to sit in awe of a site that includes some of the best journalism created packages it in a simple way with links to outside sources and balances human judgment with technological innovation
For the past year Ive wanted to peek inside the operation at Yahoo News and see for myself just how they made the sausage...