Prakash thinks that Yahoo is better off without buying Digg. His reasoning is simple enough. He uses the Oceans and islands analogy to say that, Blogosphere is an island (includes social bookmarking sites), it will help promote and improve mainstream media. If yahoo buys Digg and integrates with the existing services of yahoo, it will [...]
We are creatures of habit. More than that though, we like useful things. Before Google, I used Altavista a lot. Google has become habit for me now. I need to learn about something new, I Google it. I have lost the link to a news story, I google the rough headline and Google shows up [...]
Top and high level creative engineers are leaving Microsoft for Google and Yahoo. This article says that they are not the only disgruntled lot who are leaving the world’s largest software company in a hurry leaving their bosses in lurch. In the past two years salaries in Microsoft have not seen any significant rise rather [...]
So time has arrived when people have started speculating about the potential takeover of YouTube by Yahoo. A report that has just chipped in, argues that YouTube is precisely the kind of site that Yahoo! would love to have in its stable to jump start its video usage. However, this has also been argued that [...]
A more sophisticated and robust search engine tool, Orion, is being developed in Sydney. Google lost not time to acquire this advanced text search algorithm which is being developed by University of NSW PhD student Ori Allon and his supervisor Dr Eric Martin. Its claimed that Orion will make searches less time consuming. It will [...]
Faceparty is the latest buzzword for teenagers in Britain. According to latest report Faceparty is the busiest community website. This website proved to be a dark horse as it has left behind well known websites like Friends Reunited and MySpace by miles. But what is written on the wall is that it left behind the [...]
Internet’s reputation, in terms of the source of news, is becoming increasingly popular among young generation. According to a poll conducted jointly by BBC, Reuters and The Media Center 19 percent of those aged between 18 and 24 hold the Internet as their most important source of news. However, overall only nine percent have approved [...]
Yahoo, finally, is likely to shift on the new search advertising software that has been code named ‘Project Panama’ in the summer this year. The project is completed in two years time and Yahoo has supposedly invested tens of millions of dollar in the project. The new search-advertising software would flash text ads just adjacent [...]
Google is coming back to play on its strength i.e. its search engine. Recently in a press meet Google expressed that it is likely to roll out a wide range of products aimed at improving the search experience. It has introduced several fresh search enhancements that can facilitate a way to subscribe to health research [...]
Yahoo! Inc and Telemundo, a TV network in Spanish language, have together launched a Web site and its content would cater the growing U.S. Hispanic audience. The web site is named ‘Yahoo! Telemundo’ which has replaced Yahoo en Espanol and Telemundo .com. This new web site will provide Yahoo! a leverage to tackle its core [...]
