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GeoCities is Shutdown, What’s Next Yahoo?

admin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:50:45 +0000

GeoCities shares a story which only early internet know about. Geocities started in 1995 as an exclusive free webhosting service with subdomains: yourname.geocities.com.

The service gained a lot of popularity and became the single largest free hosting service. In 1999, the beat of internet, Yahoo bought the company and continued the service flawlessly. But the popularity was on gradual decline because of better and more featureful options by other free service providers. But still, alot of users sticked to GeoCities.

During the last one year, Yahoo! has been continous decline. It started with the Microsoft’s interest to acquire the company. Though Yahoo declined the offer in interest of it’s investors and users.
Why is GeoCities shutting Down?
The reason specified on Yahoo’s site is pretty much unfair for the consumers and reverse for the company:

We have decided to focus on .. Read Further »
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CEO Bartz brings Trouble to Yahoo! Investors: $2Million Shares Cashed-out

admin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:24:13 +0000

Yahoo’s CEO Carol Bartz has not bought harmony to the company. Many Yahoo investors are losing interest and hopes over the brand which was once a word that meant Joy and excitement.

Her credibility has been in question since a while. Investors were amazed when she quoted Yahoo was never a search company.

As per the Guardian news

According to regulatory filings, Bartz has made two major stock sales in the past nine months – more than $830,000 (£500,000) in March and a further $1.14m in June.

While executives are entitled to sell the options that they had been given, he said that Bartz was sending the wrong message by exercising so many of her stock options so soon after joining the company.

“Two million already cashed out for Bartz is too much, too soon, doesn’t really fit with her ‘I didn’t need this job as I was retired’ .. Read Further »
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Google Search Replaces Bing on Yahoo UK

admin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:24:22 +0000

This could be one of those things that Microsoft least expected, and Google waited for weeks.

When Microsoft made its deal last month with Yahoo to provide the search infrastructure for its home page, using technology from Bing, it left open and non-exclusive the fate of several deals the one-time #2 search provider had already made, especially with carriers. Specifically, does Bing become the default search provider for services that had previously made a deal with Yahoo? The answer appeared to be no.

Today, that suspicion was roundly confirmed, as one of the world’s largest cooperative portals with Yahoo — one which still bears the Yahoo brand.

In a move first discovered by the UK-based blog .. Read Further »

Yahoo! says it will Continue to Innovate Search

admin — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:41:00 +0000

In a conference yesterday, representatives from Yahoo gave a live demonstration to reporters and analysts of new features of their principal Web applications that they believe will attract new users. Included on their list were ways that Yahoo plans to improve search.

We were surprised when Bartz, Yahoo’s CEO said “We Have Never Been a Search Company”. But ray of hope of Innovation at Yahoo! looks to be alive.

After Yahoo signed away its Search infrastructure to Microsoft in an historic deal late last month, which many perceive as Yahoo opening its floodgates to Bing. Yahoo share had dropped over this, but Microsoft is very +ve over the deal. In an effort to minimize the appearance of the deal .. Read Further »

Yahoo-Microsoft Love – Recommends Firefox Users to Switch to “Safer IE8″

admin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:48:57 +0000

MicroHoo (Yahoo-Microsoft) deal was supposed to monetize Yahoo search — that’s what we thought. But now it looks like it was more than just a Bing deal.

Within last few days, we observed something new. Yahoo! is now encouraging Firefox users that they’d be better off switching to the “new, safer Internet Explorer 8″.

A Drastic Change?

Last year we saw Yahoo advising IE users to switch to “NEW safer, faster Firefox 3″. No what happened that made them feel that IE is better than Firefox? Is it the new love-affair that Yahoo has been into since this season? Poor Irony, Yahoo!

Here is a screenshot :.. Read Further »

Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo unite Against Google for Open Book Alliance

admin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:57:20 +0000

It’s one of the rare moments when a Big alliance is formed by 3 heavyweights to fight Google’s attempt to create what could be the world’s largest virtual library.

Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo are in talks to sign up to the Open Book Alliance being spearheaded by the Internet Archive. They oppose a legal settlement that could make Google the main source for many online works.

“Google is trying to monopolise the library system,” the Internet Archive’s founder Brewster Kahle told BBC News. “If this deal goes ahead, they’re making a real shot at being ‘the’ library and the only library.”

Back in 2008, the search giant reached an agreement with publishers and authors to settle two lawsuits that charged the company with copyright infringement for the unauthorised scanning of books.

In that settlement, Google agreed to pay $125m (£76m) to create a Book Rights Registry, where authors and publishers could register works and receive compensation. Authors and publishers .. Read Further »

Yahoo! CEO Bartz “We Have Never Been a Search Company”. Wrong!

admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:24:51 +0000

The Microhoo deal is finally out of the news and Yahoo has finally happily settled in the grave built by Microsoft.

In an interview with Carol Bartz, Yahoo’s CEO, and she uttered a quote that lead to industry-wide disagreement.

When we think about Yahoo, Google, what do we think first?

Ms. Bartz places Yahoo’s position in a rather different light. “We have never been a search company,” she said. “It is, ‘I am on Yahoo. I am going to do a search.’”

What? Am I wrong or …?

Yahoo, according to Ms. Bartz, simply feeds search results for people who have grown curious while reading one of its news stories or watching a video. It doesn’t generally pop into peoples’ minds as the first place to go look for answers during the course of their day-to-day activities.

As such, Ms. Bartz said she could continue to live with the 20 percent or so share of the search market Yahoo has today. “I am a very .. Read Further »

Microhoo Deal dips Yahoo share – Ballmer Surprised

admin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:53:34 +0000

Steve Ballmer had been looking into this deal with sky high hopes and desperation. But a bad news was awaiting to settle down his excitement. The Wall Street reacted negatively to Yahoo’s plan to hand over its Internet search and advertising reins to Microsoft.

“Nobody gets it,” he said about the deal, unveiled Wednesday after more than a year in the making.

Under terms of the 10-year deal, Microsoft’s Bing search engine and adCenter platform will power Yahoo’s search-based advertising business, while Yahoo’s sales team will handle both companies’ premium search customers.

Ballmer attempted to explain why the deal will benefit both companies and to perhaps repair some of the damage to Yahoo’s stock price.

While Microsoft’s stock went up after the deal was announced, which seems like a Good news for Microosft, Yahoo’s dipped. As of .. Read Further »

Microhoo – Microsoft-Yahoo Deal. What Open Source Industry should Learn

admin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:36:00 +0000

On the outside, the deal between Microsoft and Yahoo, is not related to Open source, means nothing to it. but there’s a hidden story that finds an analogy.

FACT:

It’s not a merger. Yahoo’s open source projects remain Yahoo’s, though their opensource driven search goes offline for long decade Hibernation. This is totally opposite to the Oracle-Sun deal, where Sun’s open source projects were said to be behind Oracle’s interest.

But, Yahoo isn’t all strong on the other sides. Yahoo’s open source projects are now held by a company that is cash poor. The company will be under enormous pressure to monetize its software assets, and the for-sale sign is already out.

Within this year, we have seen Platinum companies taking the opportunity and buying-off Open source companies – Sun – solaris, Java – Open Office. The Yahoo User Interface Library. All just pawns in bigger corporate .. Read Further »

Official – Microsoft and Yahoo Search and Advertising Deal Insights

admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:18:19 +0000

The rumors had been living for Microsoft-Yahoo deal since a year now. Last year, Microsoft failed to impress the shareholders, and could not settle with a deal to buy Yahoo.

Since then, we have seen a bunch of news about Micro-hoo! deals. With no final news coming out, it was getting fishy. But today, the deal was finally announced: Microsoft and Yahoo! have finally Married under a Deal - strictly limited to internet search and advertising.

This move, as per the companies, is supposed to help both in their competition with Google. The deal covers a whole chunk of things, but the most important one is that Bing will become the exclusive algorithmic search and paid search platform for Yahoo! web sites. OMG!

In addition, Yahoo! will .. Read Further »

Microsoft Secretly Fears Google even after Bing

admin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:35:06 +0000

Microsoft had high hopes on Bing and they have should good numbers, recently. As per the latest reports from ComScore, Bing is not catching up as well as Microsoft quoted it was.

As per Betanews post:

Today, the first broader-based data analysis from ratings service comScore closely confirms what the early samples were saying: During the month of June, Microsoft-hosted searches including Bing for US customers numbered just 30 million more than for Microsoft-hosted searches including Windows Live the month before. This is during a month when just over 14 billion general searches were processed by the nation’s top five providers.

The news looks a little better for Microsoft when you consider that June was a slow month for searches overall — down by 2%. So while Google’s general search traffic declined by 2% in keeping with the general trend, its US usage share .. Read Further »
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Reports of Bing eating Yahoo share Appear to be Mistaken

admin — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:59:27 +0000

News of Bing eating Google and Yahoo search share rules out to be a miss-calculation. Three out of four major market research firms say that Yahoo still leads significantly in traffic. (Source: DailyTech)