Yahoo plans to sell Zimbra, the open source email solution it acquired in 2007.
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Yahoo is adding all the features of a social network in its mail service.
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If you are from Yahoo search team, you will surely love this statement from Carol Bartz ..but this deal will make the difference between a great Yahoo! search experience and an awesome one. Goes on to say how valuable is the Yahoo search
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Few justifications if any, need to be given for choosing “Google Search” as the product of the year from 1998. It has been a winner in terms of...
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Indian Railways takes the cake, followed by Deepika Padukone, Sixth Pay Commission and Shilpa Shetty. Here is the top 10 list of Yahoo searches in 2008: Indian Railways Deepika Padukone Sixth Pay Commission Shilpa Shetty Games Aishwarya Rai Kareena Kapoor Cricket Sachin Tendulkar Tata Nano – source Under different categories, Deepike Padukone tops Entertainment, Cricket scores over Olympics in Sports, and interestingly, sixth pay commission tops...
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Local search market in India is hot and Y! India has now announced investment of 30% stake in Call Ezee, a directory search service. Call Ezee is a telephone directory search service currently covering 14 cities across India and will use the funding to increase the coverage of their offering. ..the partnership provides Yahoo Inc the...
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Yahoo launched world search championship few days back (ends on Oct 31st) and within 13 days of launch, the site has reached to the 248th position/topmost site in India! (as per Alexa). Alexa has it’s own tracking issue (tracks based on # of toolbars installed and hence isn’t very reliable, but is okay for a...
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Flickr has redesigned it’s homepage and added activity stream to the site. The new homepage clearly cuts off the clutter and puts ‘your’ information at the center. The ‘Recent Activity’ has been made customizable and one can select which activities to follow/mute (from activity page), expand/collapse activities
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Yahoo Messenger and GTalk will be made interoperable and users will be able to exchange IMs, see friend’s online presence and add contacts from either service to their friend’s list....
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Yahoo India Local has expanded the local search product to Kolkata and Hyderabad – taking the total number of supported cities to 6 (after Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi). The local search space has seen somewhat less action in the last few days and
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Yahoo’s newly launched ymail/rocketmail has gone viral with kaunhoonmain. Watch out the spoof and do share your comments!
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As per Compete’s May data, Yahoo’s search market share was 13.3% – just that Compete did a calculation mistake (and lost credibility!) Here is the entire story: Compete uses the following regex to count the number of Yahoo! searches: ^/search\?(.*&)?p=+ It actually excludes a vast number of searches that uses
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Yahoo! announced localized versions of Yahoo! Go 3.0 for India, Australia and Southeast Asia, including a local language version for Indonesia, and an English version of Yahoo! oneSearch with voice that recognizes regional accents (Indian and Singaporean accents.) The OneSearch team has announced partnership with eading mobile operators include: Mahanagar Telephon Nigam Limited (MTNL, India),...
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Personalized page is an important strategy for all the portals, as they command the highest degree of stickiness and serve as the default page/starting page for a regular visitor (especially the non-geekies). Google, after seeing the Aug 2007 spurt is more or less following an organic growth, while Netvibes has registered a decent increase in...
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Yahoo India has launched a new kind of search experience that collates contextual information and presents that in a visual form (look at the screenshot below, for “aishwarya rai” query) The serp collates information from wikipedia, Y! properties (like in.movies), blogs and contextual portals (like cricinfo for sachin tendulkar), Flickr, Answers, Maps etc. Pretty much goes...
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So finally the 3-month old story comes to an end. Microsoft finally walks out of the deal (Steve Ballmer still screaming ‘developers developers developers!”) If you look at the entire story (has it really ended?), I think it’s a classic move of negotiation play between two biggies : MS goes public and offers to buy Yahoo, Yahoo says...
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Flickr users love Flickr and any forced change/disruption in usage behavior makes the community rip off their fav picture sharing site. The newly launched Flickr video is going thru’ a similar riot and users are creating Flickr groups like NO VIDEO ON FLICKR!!! (10K members), We Say NO to Videos on Flickr (24K members),...
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Couple of months back, I wrote about Tata’s Eka , Asia’s fastest and world’s fourth fastest supercomputer. Yahoo and Tatas have joined hands and CRI (Computational Research Laboratories, which is owned by Tata Sons) will make available to Y! researchers, one of the world’s top five supercomputers that has substantially more ...
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Last year, it was YouTube, this year it’s FaceBook. You guessed it right – I am talking about the “phenomena” which has set the entire blogosphere on fire, events which suddenly gets everyone’s eyeballs and reinforces our faith on web2.0 (and the associated VC funding and blahs!) Let’s look at the...
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Yahoo! India Answers and Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (HUL) have launched world’s first branded video knowledge search Extending the success of Y! Answers to an offline media, Yahoo! and HUL team went across 3 cities (Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore) and asked women questions on hair care. In a span of 9 days, over 250...
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