Posts Tagged ‘Yahoo’

Yahoo Labs chief sees real-time search opportunity

Saturday, August 1, 2009 5:50 No Comments

Yahoo Inc is considering developing new real-time search capabilities, even as it outsources its existing Internet search technology to Microsoft Corp.
Yahoo’s Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo Labs, said that the company could potentially “mine” messages from Twitter, the popular microblogging service, to offer Web surfers search results beyond those offered by Microsoft’s Bing.
Bing is the [...]

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Microsoft and Yahoo Finally Announce Deal

Friday, July 31, 2009 3:33 No Comments

Well, they’ve finally gone and done it. Microsoft and Yahoo have partnered to “change the search landscape.” The two companies today announced a long-awaited deal, in which Microsoft will power Yahoo search while Yahoo will become the exclusive  search advertising provider for Microsoft’s search engine, Bing.
You know this history by now. Here’s what the companies [...]

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