Search Engine Journal

There you have it, Yahoo Board’s Chairman Roy Bostock responding to Icahn’s letter to the Yahoo board nominating 10 members of the Icahn’s proposed  Yahoo Board Members. In the said letter Bostock reiterated Yahoo Board’s stand that the current members of the Board remain the best and most qualified group to maximize value for all […]

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Three weeks after announcing SearchMonkey and opening it up for a limited preview, Yahoo has finally made the Yahoo search results development platform open to all. To refresh our memories, Yahoo search monkey as an open ecosystem has three components:

Site owners share structured data with Yahoo!, using semantic markup (microformats, RDF), standardized XML feeds, […]

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Sometimes we look at great innovation and are compelled to compare like creations in evaluating them. More often than not it is the differences between websites that appeals to us. All these startups of the last two years have so much in common, but useful aspects outside commonality are sometimes the reasons we choose […]

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Microsoft may have walked away from the table in negotiations with Yahoo for a takeover deal, but just because they’ve pulled their bid, that doesn’t mean the takeover talks have ended. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn lauched a proxy war to unseat Yahoo’s current board of directors, and unveiled an alternate board of directors for the […]

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For the longest time, Yahoo was the U.S.’s most-visited website and Google was the most popular search engine.  That has, however, changed.  Google is now both the country’s top-visited website as well as the most popular search engine.
Losing the title surely is a disappointment to Yahoo, who are currently trying to turn around their company […]

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Ask.com has announced that it will be purchasing the online reference network of Lexico Publishing Group, which owns and operates Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.
The move marks one of the first by the new IAC homegrown Safka regime of Ask.com, and Ask.com CEO Jim Safka says that the Lexico properties are an excellent fit into the […]

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CBS is making a major Internet and news powerplay, acquiring CNET for $11.50 per share (44% more than CNET is trading at) for a total of $1.8 Billion. Acquiring CNET and its $406 million per year in revenue is a big and bold move by CBS, which was the original parent company of iWon Search […]

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Yahoo Directory is considered the creme de la creme in the human edited directory and search field, and is one of the major authority listings I (and many other SEO’s) routinely tell clients and readers to join.
A link from the Yahoo Directory is usually of high value because it :

May assist with Yahoo Search […]

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Yahoo Japan & Yahoo have just launched Yahoo Site Explorer for the Japanese market, which Yahoo search & services dominate.
Using Yahoo Japan Site Explorer, Japanese webmasters or companies targeting the Japanese market can track their URLs and incoming links and also upload sitemap files into Yahoo.
Unlike the US version of Site Explorer, Yahoo Japan […]

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Yahoo has started to automatically serve the local version of their Yahoo homepage to users from the UK (and perhaps other global destinations) in what may be an effort to become more cozy with their international users.
So if you type www.yahoo.com into your UK based browser, you should be redirected to uk.yahoo.com
Yahoo has recently become […]

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