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February search results show that Bing continues to grow as Yahoo sags.
Comscore reported that usage of Bing went up from 11.3% in January to 11.5% in February, while Yahoo’s stats during the same period dropped to 16.8% from 17%. Google’s stats remained essentially unchanged.
The most impressive figures for Bing, however, come from a report written by Morgan Stanley analyst Imran Khan. (more…)
Microsoft and Yahoo have gotten the final stamps of approval on their search partnership.
Today, the US Department of Justice and the EU approved the proposed search deal between the industry’s second and third-largest players. The deal, which rolls out Bing’s search algorithms across Yahoo’s range of sites while making Yahoo the exclusive sales force for High-volume advertisers, ad resellers, and SEO and SEM agencies for both companies.
The two companies said today that they would now focus on the deal’s details. (more…)
The search engine market share reports are in. Bing’s share increased from 10.7% in December to 11.3% for January.
That’s an 8.5% increase from a year ago. In contrast, all of the major players lost market share except for Ask.com.
The online job marketplace Monster has just acquired HotJobs away from Yahoo for a stunning $225 million in cash. Part of this deal is a three-year “commercial traffic agreement,” which will begin on the closing of the deal.
This seems to mean that Yahoo will shunt jobs related traffic to Monster for three years, as its “provider of career and job content on the Yahoo! homepage in the United States and Canada.”
Yahoo gets cash and drops non-c0re assets, while Monster gets to fight on one fewer front, grow, and receive a guaranteed firehose of traffic from the vast Yahoo. Access to Yahoo’s homepage is part of the deal. (more…)
France may start taxing Internet advertising revenues from online giants such as Google, using the funds to support creative industries that have been hit by the digital revolution, reports Liberation.
Culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand launched the ‘mission Zelnik’ in September, comprising Patrick Zelnik, CEO of independent music label Naïve, Jacques Toubon, former minister of culture and Guillaume Cerutti, CEO of Sotheby’s France.
The proposal put forward is the country’s latest challenge to the virtual free-for-all for internet content. The country has previously caused controversy with some of the world’s harshest laws on online piracy. (more…)
- UPDATE – We have confirmation of censorship in Yahoo Image search. Unlike Bing, Yahoo is not currently censoring web searches. Screenshot here.
It seems that Bing and Yahoo are bowing to governmental pressure and censoring search results that relate to certain explicit terms.
If you would like to see the ban in action, follow this link and search for “sex. Or, click on this link here, where I have done it for you. As our initial source TechYoYo points out, this means that you can no longer search for “sex discrimination,” as that has a banned word. Test that here.
These changes are coming about due to India’s Information Technology Act (passed in 2000), which did ban pornographic material. It is now being enforced in new ways. We do not at this time have an exhaustive list of what terms are banned, but you can guess the vein that they lie in.
However, as you might have guessed, there is a way around this. Merely head into your account and change your country to any Western nation, and the ban is lifted. Head here to do so.
Easy to hack through, but very annoying to the average user. Comically, SafeSearch in Bing is now forcibly turned on, at all times. If you attempt to change that in your account (if set to India), you see this: (more…)
Over the past few months we have heard a lot of rumors about MyBlogLog. A service that Today our friends at ReadWriteWeb broke the story that Yahoo is about to kill MyBlogLog.
Inside MyBlogLog
It was obvious that Yahoo was struggling with ideas with exactly what to do with MBL after they had acquired it for $10 million back in early 2007. In talks with one of our editors Yahoo told us that the initial idea for MBL was that Yahoo would know what pages MBL users visit outside of their own domains. Update: They specifically wanted to know what UCG their users frequented per Yahoo subdomain. This data is valuable for their search technology and index. The problem is that a lot of the MBL widgets are installed on pages with low traffic (read unimportant content). So Yahoo isn’t getting the data that they were hoping to get. The MBL widget is installed on ‘a couple of hundred thousand domains’ and the widget is generated a billion times per day! You can imagine that the operating costs are much higher than the actual benefits. Update: With Yahoo’s infrastructure the costs of operation is almost nothing (apart from time and effort by management and development – if any) (more…)
Yahoo has announced the launch of a new service that allows users to control the types of ads they get while visiting the network’s sites.
Yahoo Ad Interest Manager may have the most uninteresting name imaginable but it is a handy tool if you spend a lot of time on Yahoo sites such as Flickr. The tool lets you see the type of interest-based ads it shows you and allows you to opt out of them if you choose.
If you look at a lot of, er, ‘unsavoury’ content in your private time it’s probably best not to check this page when you have friends around. All your interests (as guessed by Yahoo) are displayed as list with the option to switch each one off one-by-one, or all of them in one go. (more…)
Yahoo are to use Facebook Connect to allow their users to share photos, groups and more on the social networking website Facebook.
Expected to begin in early 2010, Yahoo had clearly seen the benefits of being part of the 350 million strong Facebook, with their aim being to bring more users to Yahoo.
Yahoo had already experimented earlier in the year with Facebook integration, allowing email users to preview their Facebook friend’s messages directly from the Yahoo homepage. The new move will push automatically activities from Yahoo sites, such as photos shared on Flickr, into the Facebook news feed.
Facebook Connect, introduced last year, allows users to log in to websites using their Facebook IDs, rather than having to sign up to the third party accounts. Users can then notify their Facebook friends via the News Feed on their activities on the third party website. Websites such as Digg, and now The Guardian, are already using this function. (more…)
A recent study by RapLeaf shows that Twitter and LinkedIn are at least twice as popular amongst Gmail users as they are with Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL users.
RapLeaf looked at social network memberships of 120,000 users of AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo accounts to gauge where they spend time online and found that AOL and Gmail users tend to favor Facebook, while Hotmail and Yahoo users tend to use Facebook and MySpace equally. The study also showed that within that user-base, Twitter is the third-most popular social network, followed by LinkedIn. (more…)
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