Tag: yahoo
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Web 2.0 to suffer from United States Department of Justice request?
I see Xeni Jardin over at Boing Boing has posted an article on how the US Department of Justice have requested a weeks worth of search data from the major US search engines. Seemingly Yahoo, AOL, and MSN simply handed over the data without any question. Google however held out and is now being taken…
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Any questions for Bradley Horowitz of Yahoo?
I am interviewing Bradley Horowitz, director of technology development for Yahoo’s search group tomorrow for a podcast on PodLeaders.com – any questions you may have feel free to leave them here in the comments and I will be sure to ask them.
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Yahoo! purchase of Del.icio.us confirmed – who is flocking next?
Well, the post I made last night about the Yahoo! Del.icio.us rumours was confirmed this evening when Del.icio.us made the announcement of the takeover on its blog and Yahoo! posted the news also. All day today I was doubting my source ‘cos no-one else picked up the story but, no, it came good. It is…
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Yahoo! buying Del.icio.us?
I have been hearing a rumour on the grapevine that Yahoo! may be buying Del.icio.us for between $30-$40 million. I’m not sure yet if this is more rumour-mongering – the same as the Riya-Google rumours of a few weeks ago or if there is something more behind this. UPDATE: The Yahoo! – Del.icio.us deal was…
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Google has rolled out a web version of Google Talk
As the title suggests, Google has rolled out a Flash based version of Google Talk called Gtalkr. It includes a Yahoo Maps extension – as Google Maps is not Flash based – this is unfortunate because Yahoo Maps is US only 🙁 Gtalkr also includes your Gmail account automatically (you log in using your Gmail…
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Microsoft follow Google into Book Search
I had a much longer post prepared about this but I lost it when I had a server crash (due to my playing around with my .htaccess file!). Anyway, according to the BBC, Microsoft are following Google’s lead into the Book Search arena. MSNBC’s report states that Microsoft are teaming up with Yahoo! and the…