Category Archives: Yahoo

About Yahoo!'s home page redesign this week

Yahoo! just redesigned the Yahoo.com home page, its crown jewel for a decade. The big change is a bar on the left with widgets that display updates from Facebook, Gmail, New York Times and some 60 other sources. The company … Continue reading

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The Three Degrees of Personalization

Facebook’s Beacon brought some spice to the tech community, which had been longing for some juicy stuff to blog/discuss/pontificate about since the iPhone’s launch several months ago. Beacon is (was?) part of Facebook’s new online ad system which shared a … Continue reading

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Yahoo! – Cast in His Image

I’ve wondered off and on about how much a company’s culture is modified in its CEO’s image. (It’s a heavily-researched issue, but I haven’t read up on any of it). There is evidence galore about Jack Welch’s effect on GE’s … Continue reading

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Yahoo! community prediction spot-on!

In a post several days ago , I had predicted that Yahoo! would sooner or later get out of the search business and concentrate on Community (since that’s what it is best at) and Personalization, which follows from the community … Continue reading

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Yahoo!: Powered by Community

I’ve been thinking of the difference (and similarities) between Y! Answers and Wikipedia, and then about Yahoo!’s true strength. Excerpts from an email I wrote a friend: … if you can get inputs from not only patients, but medical practitioners, … Continue reading

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Tomorrow Today: Google Universal Search – Part 3: What it means for MS and Yahoo!

Bob Cringely contends that the battle for search is over, with Google emerging the clear winner. With Google Universal Search, Google has put so much distance between itself and numbers two and three, that the incremental return on additional investment … Continue reading

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Tomorrow Today: Google Universal Search – Part 2: What it means for the SEO industry

It means everything. It means a massive opportunity and a massive threat. It means a period of flux in the SEO space for the next six months. Why? Until today, everything – everything – in the SEO industry was to … Continue reading

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Tomorrow Today: Google Universal Search – Part 1: Industry Disruption

About a week ago, Google took the lid off a project that had been brewing for several months. The company calls it Universal Search. In a nutshell, it “will blend listings from its news, video, images, local and book search … Continue reading

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Monetizing Yahoo! Answers – or not?

A source who knows a thing or two about Yahoo!, and I, were talking about possible strategies to monetize Yahoo! Answers. The source mentioned that Yahoo! was looking at Adsense-like sponsored links to make money. At that point, I realized … Continue reading

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The race for the smallest screen of 'em all

Yahoo’s been quietly putting into place a set of very high-quality tools and services for mobile phones. From the time it launched Yahoo! Go last year, the company’s been working feverishly at plugging its diverse services (mail, search, instant messaging, … Continue reading

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