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Yahoo edges out Google in customer satisfaction
By Jacqui Cheng | Published: August 14, 2007 - 10:21AM CT
Google no longer holds the gold metal in customer satisfaction—at least not according to the University of Michigan’s American Consumer Satisfaction Index. Instead, Yahoo has dethroned Google and taken first place. And while the difference in score may not [...]
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Big three search engines to use common indexing tool
By Eric Bangeman | Published: November 16, 2006 - 09:35AM CT
Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo will all begin using Google Sitemaps in an attempt to standardize and improve the website indexing process. Sitemaps are XML files describing the layout of the site with associated metadata. Those files can [...]
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Posted in yahoo, tagged open search, plug-ins, search, yahoo on February 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Yahoo opens up search with web-based solution
By David Chartier | Published: February 26, 2008 - 12:17PM CT
As Yahoo tries to stave off a determined Microsoft takeover, the company has announced one of its most interesting new search innovations in recent memory. By opening up a new search platform for third parties to build upon, Yahoo [...]
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Introducing iGoogle: Google’s Personalized Homepage rebranded
By Joel Hruska | Published: May 01, 2007 - 11:05PM CT
Google has transformed its rather plain-sounding Google Personalized Homepage into the new, (hopefully) sexier iGoogle. Apparently it’s something of an old idea; according to Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP of search products and user experience, iGoogle was floated as a name [...]
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Search privacy gets hot: Microsoft and Ask.com tag-team
By Joel Hruska | Published: July 23, 2007 - 10:01AM CT
Microsoft has announced that it will change its current web search privacy policies in response to concern over online privacy and advertising industry consolidation. The company also said that it is joining the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) later [...]
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Google to anonymize logs in a nod to privacy advocates
By Nate Anderson | Published: March 15, 2007 - 07:15AM CT
In its continuing quest not to be evil (or, at least, to be less evil), Google today announced an overhaul of its privacy policy. User searches will no longer be tagged indefinitely with an IP address [...]
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Google calls for international privacy standards
By Ryan Paul | Published: September 14, 2007 - 08:46AM CT
Google will call for universal privacy standards today at a UNESCO conference in France. Google believes that the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Privacy Framework could serve as the basis for harmonizing regulatory frameworks used by countries around the world.
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Free the algorithm: Wikia launches open-source search engine
By Nate Anderson | Published: January 07, 2008 - 02:01AM CT
Wikia Search, the Jimbo Wales-backed open-source search project, officially launches today after a year of development. Wales, a Wikipedia co-founder, wants to “do cool stuff” by launching [...]
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Posted in Microsoft, ask, tagged ask, Microsoft, privacy, search on February 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Search privacy gets hot: Microsoft and Ask.com tag-team
By Joel Hruska | Published: July 23, 2007 - 10:01AM CT
Microsoft has announced that it will change its current web search privacy policies in response to concern over online privacy and advertising industry consolidation. The company [...]
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Analysis: Microsoft could, but shouldn’t buy Yahoo
By Anders Bylund | Published: January 13, 2008 - 08:05PM CT
The Greek chorus calling for Microsoft to buy Yahoo is mumbling louder than ever. Journalists, analysts, and other assorted pundits are saying that Mr. Softy needs to pull [...]
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