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Yahoo To Formally Launch New Research Tool

in News on July 6, 2009 at 4:39 pm PT

Search Pad, a search feature Yahoo has been developing to help users store and organize their search results, is set to be released to the public Tuesday, according to people familiar with the company’s plans.

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

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!
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The Little Engine That Could? Yahoo Paid Search Adds Video and Pictures, Trying for More Clicks.

in News on February 19, 2009 at 2:44 am PT

Yesterday, Yahoo celebrated the fifth anniversary of the launch of its own search engine with some good news about its market share and by jazzing up its paid listings today with a plan to include pictures and video in the online ads. Will the “rich” ad search product work better, a kind of digital little engine that could?
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Yahoo Lets Users Take Notes

in News on February 4, 2009 at 3:47 pm PT

If Yahoo’s search engine made it easier to organize a ski trip or research a new cellphone, would you use it more frequently? The search engine–a distant second to Google in usage–is hoping so. Yahoo announced plans Wednesday to start testing a new research tool that tries to detect when someone is doing a research-related search and offers to save Web pages and notes in a separate document for future recall.