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No to YESS — Yahoo Employee Satisfaction Survey Shows Morale Morass

Kara Swisher in News on October 26, 2011 at 12:07 pm PT

Apparently, Yahoos can’t get no satisfaction.

Microsoft's Bing Makes More UI Changes–And Checks In With Foursquare

Kara Swisher in News on March 25, 2010 at 5:45 am PT

Today, Microsoft’s search engine-that-could, Bing, will begin rolling out another significant upgrade to the user interface seen by consumers. Microsoft also announced it would integrate hot geolocation start-up Foursquare into its maps. Will the moves help Bing keep growing its share?

Google's Brin Says He Is "Always Optimistic" About China Solution

Kara Swisher in News on February 12, 2010 at 11:47 am PT

Google’s Sergey Brin took the stage at the TED conference this morning for a brief discussion about the search giant’s recent declaration that it will pull out of the country if it has to continue to censor results. “We want to find a way to work within the Chinese system,” said Brin, but without having to censor political search terms. “A lot of people might think I am naive and that might be true.”

Yahoo Search Guy Raghavan Speaks! (Actually, He WOOs!)

Kara Swisher in News on May 20, 2009 at 2:58 am PT

Yesterday, Yahoo’s top search execs had a little sit-down with reporters and bloggers, including BoomTown, about some of the search innovations it has been working on. After the presentation, which focused on open, mobile, consumer intent and the “Web of objects, not pages,” which Yahoo is calling WOO (no, really, WOO), I got a chance to chat with Yahoo’s Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo Labs and Yahoo Search Strategy, about all that, as well as competition with Microsoft and search leader Google.

Liveblogging the Yahoo Search "Chalk Talk": Kill the 10 Blue Links!

Kara Swisher in News on May 19, 2009 at 12:05 pm PT

BoomTown liveblogged Yahoo’s “chalk talk” about search earlier today, which was an update of what the Internet giant is up to in the competitive space that includes Google and Microsoft. Presenting at the event were Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo Labs and Yahoo Search Strategy; Larry Cornett, VP of Consumer Products; and Marc Davis, chief scientist of Yahoo Mobile. In summary: Kill the blue links! Intent! Objects! Open! Mobile! And, most of all, WOO!