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From directory pioneer to portal giant: our long-running coverage of Yahoo search. 2,142 articles
Social

‘Crash the Trailer’ on Road to Canonization

Last year didn’t have a breakaway viral in the way 2004 did with Subservient Chicken, but New Line’s “Crash the Trailer” edit…

By rumo · 16 Mar 2006

Industry

Yahoo Displayed Google URL With “Terrorists”

Philipp Lenssen reports that if you do a search at Yahoo UK/Ireland for google, the fifth result displays the URL “www.google.ca/#terrorists”. I…

By Barry Schwartz · 16 Mar 2006

Industry

Yahoo Grants 1.3 Million Options to CEO, Terry Semel

MarketWatch reports that Terry Semel, the CEO of Yahoo, has been granted 1.3 million stock options from his company. The options have…

By Barry Schwartz · 15 Mar 2006

Industry

Nutch’s Doug Cutting Joins Yahoo Full Time After Serving Four Years Independently

Jeremy Zawodny notes that Doug Cutting, who has been working at Yahoo for four-years as an independent contractor, as now signed on…

By Barry Schwartz · 15 Mar 2006

Industry

Yahoo Redesigning Home Page

InternetNews.com reports that Yahoo has been redesigning its home page to bring out more search features on the front page. Some of…

By Barry Schwartz · 15 Mar 2006

Industry

25 Things I Hate About Google

Google’s purchase of Writely sort of drove me over the edge last week. When I saw the news confirmed, I exclaimed out…

By Danny Sullivan · 13 Mar 2006

Industry

Highlights from the SEW Blog: Mar. 13, 2006

Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.

By Chris Sherman · 13 Mar 2006

Local

Will Local Search Engines Replace National Search Engines for Local Search?

ClickZ reports “about half the panelists believe local search engines will replace national search engines like Yahoo, Google and MSN when it…

By Barry Schwartz · 10 Mar 2006

Industry

Yahoo’s Yang Says It’s More Important To Be In China Than Risk Of Not Participating

News.com reports that Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang said, “It is more important for us to participate, not only for economic reasons, but…

By Barry Schwartz · 09 Mar 2006

PPC

Google Explains Invalid Clicks

Google has rarely spoken publicly about click fraud issues surrounding their Google AdWords program, even with the publicity it has received of…

By Jennifer Slegg · 09 Mar 2006