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Yahoo 360 Reviewed
While, I like what I see so far and I think 360 is very compelling as a personal blogging tool, it has some serious shortcomings that most veterans will not like.
Yahoo Has Its Mojo Back
I've seen numerous folks commenting on Om Malik's recent posting about Yahoo: How Yahoo Got Its Mojo Back.
Searching TV Shows with Google Video
No, the Google Video search tool is not for finding naughty videos-use Yahoo Video for that (please, if you have kids, set on it's filter).
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Vertical Search Engines Proliferate
The San Francisco Chronicle takes a look at the recent flurry of new search engines catering to specific vertical markets.
When It Comes to Tagging, You're It
BusinessWeek takes a good look at tagging (sometimes called folksonomies) from an interesting perspective - the threat they pose to search engines...
Taking Yahoo 360 for a spin
What a dilemma - six invitations to sign up to Yahoo 360°, the new social networking offering from Yahoo that launched in beta earlier this week.
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04.04.05
Yahoo FareChase Launches Beta For Hotels
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The new Yahoo! FareChase hotel product offers a variety of powerful search, sorting, and refining capabilities, which are presented to users through an easy-to-use interface.
The customized, dynamic sorting instantly redisplays results by price or distance from specified location and automatically lists hotel amenities, address and distance in miles. The hotel beta also provides features and tools that help make choosing a hotel easier, such as hotel photos, user ratings and reviews, interactive maps that display hotels and attractions, and other useful travel content.
"As part of Yahoo!'s commitment to providing the best search experience on the Web, consumers now have a free, relevant and unbiased product to help them find and book travel quickly and easily," said Yen Lee, General Manager of Travel at Yahoo!.
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Google Speeds Up Firefox Searches
 By Mark Fleming
When you key a search term into Google it often has a pretty good idea of what it is you are looking for. For example, if you key in "microsoft" it's likely you are looking for the Microsoft.com page, and Google puts it up in the top search results position.
In cases like this, where Google assumes that it is very likely that you will click on the obvious choice for your search term, it now attempts to speed up the subsequent display of the the likely target page-that is, if you are using a Firefox (or other Mozilla-based) browser. What happens is that Google will anticipate your selection and "prefetch" the target page content while it's waiting for you to click on its link. So, when you finally do request the page, it's hopefully already in your cache, speeding up its display. If you click on another link instead, it will stop the prefetching process.
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Hitachi Lays Groundwork For Increased Hard Drive Capacities
Earlier today, a report concerning Hitachi and the development of increased storage capacities for hard drives across the board.
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is today announcing new advancements to a 100-year-old magnetic recording technology...
New Bugs Found In Microsoft Outlook, Internet Explorer
Once again, it appears as if another security vulnerability bug has bitten Microsoft's two popular Internet-related tools, Outlook and Internet Explorer.
The findings were made by eEye Digital Security, who categorizes the newly discovered security flaws as high risk...
Pope Podcasts Show Importance of Medium
Regardless of your religion, I think you can agree that the passing of Pope John Paul II is an historic event... |
