Yahoo, as part of their efforts to focus on specific web properties, has decided to close the search engine AltaVista. Yahoo's announcement on the shuttering of AltaVista came in a brief sentence hidden amongst a larger list of the Yahoo properties...
This makes listing your business in Yelp, Yahoo Local, and Google+ Local very important, but don't forget Bing's initiative – Bing Places. The world's third largest search engine (after just Google and YouTube) changed Bing Business Portal to Bing...
The FTC sent out letters to what they considered the primary general-purpose search engines, which includes AOL, Ask.com, Bing, Blekko, DuckDuckGo, Google, and Yahoo. The most common example of this are the Google AdWords listings in the Google...
To fuel creativity even more, you can copy keywords and drop them into Google search, Google Trends, BuzzFeed, Quora or Yahoo Answers for Qfor inspiration. With keyword search data, typically we're grabbing estimated monthly, exact match searches...
With basic SEO out of the way, you now need to think about straightening out your business listings and optimizing your off-site local pages like Google+, Yahoo, Bing, Yelp, and many others. For example, you can get a Dun a service aimed at small...
The emphasis of unstructured data by search engines Google, Bing and Yahoo is reinforced by their emphasis on the relationship of social data to websites and domains. Coincidentally, Google, Bing and Yahoo are placing greater emphasis on...
In April 2013, Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com, ranked as the top online video content property with 154.6 million unique viewers, followed by Facebook with 62.7 million, VEVO with 52.9 million, NDN with 45.3 million...
Although Google, Bing, and Yahoo have stringent privacy policies, there have been enough people worried that they have begun looking at alternative search engines, particularly so-called “private search engines.
Google and Bing are both up, while the other top search engines comScore tracks (Yahoo, Ask, AOL) were flat or saw declines. This continues the trend of Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo simply swapping search share rather than making inroads on Google’s...
The PRISM archive collects and stores data from multiple companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, AOL, and Skype, according to reports. Yahoo: Yahoo takes users’ privacy very seriously.
Retailers spent more than $2.3 billion on paid search advertising with Google AdWords and the Yahoo Bing Network in 2012, according to AdGooroo data (disclosure: I work there) making retail the most robust category for paid search in terms of ad...
Taking some inspiration from Google, Yahoo's search results have gotten a makeover. Yahoo announced its brand new look today – one that includes a Google-like navigation bar, and search results that appear higher on the page and seem to load faster.
You have the option of signing in with your Yahoo ID, through Google or through Facebook. Luckily, there are several options – including Google+ Local, Bing Local, Yelp, Facebook Graph Search, and Yahoo Local – to create a presence for your...
Yahoo is reportedly looking to buy video-streaming service Hulu. Yahoo put in a bid (in the $600 million to $800 million range, according to AllThingsD) for the service while private equity giants Silver Lake Partners and KKR have made separate...
In the U.S.rankings, YouTube is followed by Facebook with 627 million unique visitors in April 2013, VEVO with 52.9 million, NDN with 45.3 million, and Yahoo sites with 45.1 million. Google, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube, ranked as...
Google's search market share dropped slightly once again, with Microsoft and Yahoo slightly edging up, according to comScore's April 2013 search engine rankings. However, when comparing year to year, Yahoo and Microsoft are merely swapping market...
Yahoo announced last week a partnership with Twitter to integrate tweets directly into its newsfeed. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer calls it #bestoftheweb, and says it will “seamlessly include relevant and personalized Tweets alongside stories from Yahoo!
Yahoo also shared its data for last year's Mother's Day to put spend and shopping behavior in perspective. Last year, 47 percent of Yahoo visitors searched online for Mother's Day gifts. Ever wanted to craft art on Google's homepage?
Yahoo and Microsoft may have just extended their revenue-per-search guarantee, but Yahoo has apparently been trying to escape its 10-year search deal with Microsoft in order to join forces with Google, according to reports.
However, Microsoft wants the market share that Yahoo provides and they don’t want to potentially lose the deal to another search provider – namely Google. Google currently owns more than 67 percent of the search market, with Bing at just under 17...
