Shashi Seth

Good Lord, I Might Now Want to Use Yahoo Search Again — Product Dudes Talk About New Axis Browser (Video)

Kara Swisher in News on May 23 at 8:14 pm PT

Hey now, Yahoo commits an act of innovation!

It’s Official: Yahoo Reorgs Itself Just Like We Said (Memo Time!)

Kara Swisher in News on April 10 at 8:11 am PT

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson just sent this note to Yahoo employees, about a new leadership organization for the company.

Yahoo Preps Its New Structure Down to the Wire — Set to be Unveiled to Staff at All-Hands Meeting This Morning

Kara Swisher in News on April 10 at 5:45 am PT

Watch out below! Also above. And over there, too. Oh, just watch out today, Yahoos!

It’s Official: Yahoo Lays Off 2,000 Employees — 14 Percent of Workforce

Kara Swisher in News on April 4 at 6:22 am PT

CEO Scott Thompson promises that Yahoo, after staff cuts of 14 percent of the entire workforce, will be “smaller, nimbler, more profitable and better equipped to innovate as fast as our customers and our industry require.”

Yahoo’s Layoffs Tomorrow Morning of up to 2,000 Will Only Be the First Move of a Larger Purge to Come

Kara Swisher in News on April 3 at 3:16 pm PT

A dark day will probably dawn by tomorrow in Sunnyvale.

Yahoo Layoffs Set to Begin Next Week, Followed by Restructuring the Week After

Kara Swisher in News on March 30 at 9:00 am PT

And so it begins.

Yahoo Product Unit Readies Major Exec Reorg — But It’s Just a Tremor for the Big One to Come

Kara Swisher in News on February 12 at 4:14 pm PT

More musical chairs on the deck of the S.S. Yahoo!

Video: Yahoo Search Guru Shashi Seth Speaks About Yahoo Search Direct (And Why It Is Still Searching!)

Kara Swisher in News on March 24, 2011 at 12:35 pm PT

Yesterday, Yahoo introduced a new search product called Yahoo Search Direct. Essentially, it is just like Google Instant–except it is Yahoo’s version–and it’s just as fast and pretty. Here is Shashi Seth, Yahoo’s top search dude, talking about it all.

Liveblog: Is Yahoo Still in Search? Indeed and It's Answers Not Links!

Kara Swisher in News on March 23, 2011 at 10:20 am PT

At least once a day, BoomTown gets a call from investors, analysts or other troublemaking types–you know who you are!–wondering why Yahoo is still plugging away in search. With a declining market share in the arena and a search technology outsourcing deal with Microsoft, it’s not a bad question to ask. But Yahoo begs to differ, introducing a new feature called Yahoo Search Direct at an event in San Francisco today.

Yahoo Upgrades Search Experience With "Accordion"–As It Ports Over Tech to Microsoft

Kara Swisher in News on October 6, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT

Tonight, Yahoo is introducing a new set of search upgrades, moving to focus on boosting its experience for consumers as it ports responsibility for underlying search technology to Microsoft under its new partnership. Among the new enhancements: A vertical “accordion” paradigm with shortcuts on search results that allow for new kinds of information presentation; “quick apps,” beginning with one for Netflix that lets its members add movies to their queue directly from the search results page; slideshows within search from the “Trending Now” lists on Yahoo; more immersive and theater-style photo and video search; and a new mobile search experience that uses HTML5 technology.