Yahoo and Microsoft have extended their revenue-per-search guarantee for one year, an extension of a partnership that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer had hinted wouldn't continue when the current one expired March 31.
The Yahoo-Microsoft search deal isn't working as planned, according to Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. Years before Mayer came onboard, Yahoo signed a 10-year deal with Microsoft that handed over control of its organic results to Bing and paid search...
Once upon a time Yahoo was a major leader in the search field but has been in decline, making bad decision after bad decision, announcing layoff round after layoff round and making what can only be described as one of the worst business decisions...
The core components of Yahoo's business, search, mail, ads, news and homepage, are also the core products that I've built my career on," Mayer said during her call with investors. However, Mayer also noted that Yahoo's search share is challenged...
He said Yahoo should be run as a "mature media business" and not a Silicon Valley rising star. Yahoo's 2012 Q1 search revenue was $470 million, up 3 percent compared to the same quarter for the previous year.
Microsoft, Google in active discussions” with Google about Google taking over Yahoo’s search business. Though one of the rumors has Yahoo gone from search completely, AllThingsD also notes that search business, along with communications, could end...
During a conference call this morning, Thompson and Bostock played down the comprehensive review and said the primary focus was on Yahoo's core business and its users. Ironically, Yahoo's business strategy during this chaotic period has appeared to...
Microsoft-Yahoo Search Alliance The Microsoft-Yahoo Search Alliance gave Microsoft direct access to some of Yahoo's search technologies as part of a 10-year licensing deal. Ostensibly, the alliance was part of an aim to deliver faster, more...
That partnership has handed Bing the search back-end and organic search results for almost every region where Yahoo does business. Yahoo will cut costs even further with the transition of search ads, which enables Yahoo to close that sector of...
Since that last visit, they’ve more than doubled their U.S.search market share from 7 to 15 percent and moved into the position of number two player, behind Google, thanks in large part to the Microsoft-Yahoo Search Alliance.
In working with ad agencies, "We know we have to be easier to do business with and more flexible. Search revenue was bolstered by the fact that Microsoft reimbursed Yahoo for its entire $53 million search operating cost and $4 million in transition...
Meanwhile, Third Point LLC, which owns a 5.2 percent stake in Yahoo, wants the entire board to resign, Business Insider reported. She also defended the Yahoo-Microsoft Search Alliance, saying outsourcing Yahoo search and advertising to Microsoft...
While the global search alliance between Yahoo and Microsoft has completed in the U.S.and Canada, the transition is slowly making its way to Asia. Yahoo’s organic search results are scheduled to transition to Microsoft Bing for the India market, a...
In January, Naver replaced Overture’s CPC search platform with its subsidiary NBP (NHN Business Platform). In terms of how these local search portals differ from international engines such as Google and Yahoo, which feature paid and search results...
Yahoo’s help offering is comparatively limited – and only now relevant outside the U.S.given the Search Alliance. The notable ones are the Business Channel, which covers Analytics, AdWords and related topics; the Google Analytics channel; and Think...
New early data released today by SISTRIX indicates that article sites, price comparison sites, and business directories have taken the biggest falls in Google's organic search results. PPC is as significant as ever, the SEM industry is stronger...
Yahoo and Microsoft Search Alliance State of the Union - adCenter Blog If Yahoo Exits Japan, How Will it Impact Search Marketers? Assessing whether business will go on as usual for marketers and users.
When Yahoo Japan announced its search alliance with Google, one of its goals was to strengthen its No.position in the domestic market, but comScore's January 2011 results have shown that its searcher penetration trails Google by 0.6 percent.
Mahalo, Business.com, Article Aggregators Hardest Hit By Google Update by Frank Watson While Mahalo is getting a bunch of the press, the ezine article aggregators seem to be the ones most heavily hit -- along with some of the business directory sites.
His analysis suggested "a world of intrigue in the search business. Frank Watson reports that Mahalo, Business.com, and article aggregators seem to be the hardest hit. Blekko was founded in 2007 by Rich Skrenta, Michael Markson, and a bunch of...
