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  My Search Rep Friends Keep Losing Their Jobs

  Posted: November 12th, 2010, 2:22pm CET by rustybrick

  Tags:  Other Yahoo Topics  

  There are few things that really upset me at the level of hearing about friends with health issues. People losing their jobs really bothers me. Being a boss that is in the position of having to let employees go is not fun. Thankfully I have never had to do it for financial reasons. But it doesn't make it any easier.

  Hearing of family, friends or colleagues losing their jobs really affects me.

  Maybe that is why I take the downfall of Ask.com and Yahoo Search so hard. I know tons of people at Ask who have lost their jobs over the years, many have joined other companies but not all. And this week, 130 more lost their jobs. Very upsetting to me.

  Yahoo has had tremendous layoffs as well. Some have moved to Microsoft but not all. Now there is new news that another 10-20% are losing their jobs in the near future. This is very upsetting.

  I understand that the company as a whole has to survive so that 100% of the employees don't lose their jobs. But it doesn't make it any easier to see family, friends and colleagues lose their jobs.

  The search industry is a special place for me. I hate it when good people in this industry are out of work.

  Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

  
  

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  Yahoo Was "Down a Bit" Yesterday Afternoon

  Posted: October 15th, 2010, 2:51pm CEST by rustybrick

  Tags:  Other Yahoo Topics  

  What else can go wrong for Yahoo, I mean, seriously kick them when they are down? Yesterday afternoon, Yahoo.com - the main web site - was offline for just about an hour. It technically seemed to be up, but incredibly slow, taking me personally close to a minute for it to load at times.

  I wrote about it at Search Engine Land as soon as I saw people Tweeting about it. During the outage, I was amazed there was no note about this outage on the @Yahoo Twitter account, but later on they did admit to being "down a bit" yesterday.

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  As some of you noticed, Yahoo.com was down for a bit this afternoon. We're back up and running-sorry for the interruption!less than a minute ago via webYahoo!
  Yahoo

  I do believe this is the first time I have ever seen Yahoo.com down in my life time. I really cannot remember Yahoo every being down before, at least not their home page.

  Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld and DigitalPoint Forums.

  
  

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  Yahoo Shuts Down History: GeoCities To Be Closed

  Posted: April 24th, 2009, 3:34pm CEST by rustybrick

  Tags:  Other Yahoo Topics  

  Shouldn't there be some laws about removing historic landmarks from the Internet? I mean, we have laws about physical historic landmarks in the U.S. but not on the Internet?

  If you visit GeoCities, you will notice a message that reads:

  Sorry, new GeoCities accounts are no longer available.

  After careful consideration, we have decided to close GeoCities later this year. We'll share more details this summer. For now, please sign in or visit the help center for more information.

  In short, Yahoo is shutting it down and current GeoCity customers have to find a new hosting solution. Yahoo is of course pushing their paid small business hosting service.

  Clearly, Yahoo has to turn their business around but to close down history? Maybe Obama has something in his budget to take over the historic GeoCities? ;-)

  Personally, I have never used GeoCities - but it was incredibly popular. Googler, JohnMu, Tweeted "Surprised at how many serious sites are hosted on GeoCities: get a domain name and move your stuff out NOW!" Now he would know the value of some of these GeoCities sites.

  Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums.

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  Yahoo VP Qi Lu Replaces Kevin Johnson's Vacancy at Microsoft

  Posted: December 5th, 2008, 3:56pm CET by Tamar Weinberg

  Tags:  Other Yahoo Topics  

  Since the end of July, there's been a vacancy at Microsoft as Kevin Johnson moved on from the company. The New York Times reports that Johnson's vacancy is finally filled: Qi Lu, a former Yahoo executive, has taken the position.

  In selecting Mr. Lu, who will become president of the money-losing online services group in January, Microsoft chose an executive with deep technical knowledge over others with more advertising and media experience. He will be leading the company’s challenge to Google, which dominates the search and online advertising businesses.

  Suspicions with hiring technologist Lu have to do with Microsoft wanting to be more like Google. Maybe they're right.

  Forum discussion continues at WebmasterWorld.

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  Jerry Does What Is Best For Yahoo By Stepping Down From CEO Role

  Posted: November 18th, 2008, 1:59pm CET by rustybrick

  Tags:  Other Yahoo Topics  

  Jerry Yang, from what I hear about him, is a kind, gentle, caring and giving person. To see the news that he is stepping down form the CEO role, for the betterment of the company, is sad but yet necessary. It is sad, cause he is a good guy, but if it was anyone else, I don't think I would be upset about it. Don't get me wrong, Yahoo needs a new CEO to step in and get the company back on track.

  Between all the back and forth with Microsoft and Google, all leading to failure, it is a necessary step. Jerry Yang replaced Terry Semel as CEO in June 2007.

  I like Mack's take at the WebmasterWorld thread, where he said, "I think Jerry's main problem was he was to attatched. In business you realy need to think with the head, not the heart. Yahoo! was clearly his "baby"."

  Overall, I don't think anyone is surprised. Most wonder what took so long and many are not too confident about Yahoo's future.

  Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld, Sphinn and DigitalPoint Forums.

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  Yahoo's Q3 2008 Earnings Announced

  Posted: October 23rd, 2008, 4:58pm CEST by Tamar Weinberg

  Tags:  Other Yahoo Topics  

  Yahoo has released its Q3 earnings report with some interesting observations. First, the earnings this quarter are $1,786 million, which is a a 1 percent increase compared to $1,768 million for the same period of 2007.

  Currently, fifteen thousand employees work for Yahoo (though layoffs are being reported), and some forum members wonder why. Most importantly, they wonder why Yahoo's CEO is still in play especially given the huge missed opportunity with the Microsoft deal. Here's one statement about the poor direction of Yahoo:

  Yahoo, IMHO is terribly mismanaged to the point that it no longer is credible as a search engine or directory as search results are severely lacking.

  There's still hope, though, as some people say. Yahoo needs to be a lot more innovative. The question, probably, is: how?

  Forum discussion continues at WebmasterWorld.

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  Yahoo! Site Explorer Gets a Facelift

  Posted: August 22nd, 2008, 4:22pm CEST by Tamar Weinberg

  Tags:  Other Yahoo Topics  

  The Yahoo Search Blog tells us that Yahoo! Site Explorer has a new interface with more dynamic features. Additionally, the redesign boasts a new Site Summary page that provides interesting statistics for sites that have been authenticated with Yahoo! Site Explorer. You can see this and more at [https:]. (The blog post already has some nice comments, including a bunch of spam comments that I hope Yahoo deletes, like this: "Hi, This new tool is ok, though i haven't checked it but just uploaded my new website on low cost health insurance..." Enough said.)

  Barry has already blogged about the new features on Search Engine Land and explains that the new Site Summary page gives you a nice bit of information as seen below:

  + Site URL
  + Number of pages known
  + Number of pages crawled
  + Number of host on this domain
  + Number of inlinks
  + Number of inlink domains
  + Number of outlinks
  + Number of outlink domains

  Here's an image of the new interface as well:

  It looks good. Thanks for the update, Yahoo!

  Forum discussion continues at DigitalPoint Forums and WebmasterWorld.

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  Yahoo Opens SearchMonkey Doors to Everyone

  Posted: May 16th, 2008, 4:45pm CEST by Tamar Weinberg

  Tags:  Other Yahoo Topics  

  Are you a developer? You may be interested in SearchMonkey, Yahoo's new open developer platform, which was released to all developers yesterday.

  The concept behind SearchMonkey is to empower developers to build applications that increase relevancy of search results. Developers can build Enhanced Results or Infobars under the Search Monkey API which can pull data from CitySearch, StumbleUpon, eBay, Epicurious, and more. According to the announcement, "Enhanced Results replace the current standard results with a richer display. All the links in the Enhanced Results must point to the site to which the result refers. Infobars are appended below search results and can include metadata about the result, related links or content, or links for user actions (such as adding a movie to a Netflix queue)."

  Yahoo is also holding a contest that enables developers to create their own tools using the new API. Winners can receive up to $10,000.

  Forum discussion continues at DigitalPoint Forums.

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  Yahoo and McAfee Partner to Give Users SearchScan

  Posted: May 7th, 2008, 2:10pm CEST by Tamar Weinberg

  Tags:  Other Yahoo Topics  

  Yahoo has announced on its blog that since security is so important, together with McAfee, Yahoo has launched SearchScan to protect web surfers from sites that contain malicious software such as viruses or software and spam.

  If you do a search for a phrase like "screensaver," you'll see the tool in action:

  While the solution is great for security, forum members wonder why the questionable results have to be indexed at all. There are a few possible answers to this scenario, including the possibility that the site can be mistakingly flagged as dangerous if there are enough reports about it. This solution instead lets the web owner see it before it's taken off the results completely and gives some information into what could be causing the warning.

  Malware reviews aren't new. Google has had the feature since the beginning of 2007. It's very good for Yahoo surfers that they get the added security as well.

  Forum discussion continues at DigitalPoint Forums and WebmasterWorld.

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  Yahoo Does Exclamation Point Yodeling Again

  Posted: April 11th, 2008, 2:37pm CEST by rustybrick

  Tags:  Other Yahoo Topics  

  I covered this years ago, with Yahoo!'s Logo Surprise (Yahoo! Easter Egg). Basically, if you go to Yahoo.com and click on the exclamation point in the logo at the top, it will Yodel for you. The Yahoooooo yodel.

  I am pretty sure Yahoo took this down for a while and probably recently added it when they launched the new logo placement a couple weeks ago. Here is a video of it in action:

  In light of all the Yahoo news, this bit fun is always welcoming.

  Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums.

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  Flickr Now Supports Video

  Posted: April 10th, 2008, 5:00pm CEST by Tamar Weinberg

  Tags:  Other Yahoo Topics  

  Flickr has announced that it is supporting video in addition to the standard digital photograph or image. Videos are limited to 90 seconds in length and 150MB in size and will still inherit other Flickr features, including geotagging, comments, captions, and privacy restrictions.

  Want to see it in action? Here's a video that Barry took:

  The biggest gripe for many people is the 90 second restriction. Personally, since I'm not too keen on video, the 90 second limit is a breath of fresh air. Maybe this will actually get me to be more interested in video content knowing that I won't be confined to my chair for all the much longer. Some other video services have unpredictable lengths, and it's nice to know that I won't have to sit through video that long on Flickr. Additionally, some people don't have the attention span for it. I'm not saying I don't, but I'm always busy reading and video requires my undivided attention. ;)

  Forum discussion continues at WebmasterWorld.

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  Yahoo to Acquire IndexTools Web Analytics

  Posted: April 10th, 2008, 4:44pm CEST by Tamar Weinberg

  Tags:  Other Yahoo Topics  

  Yesterday, we learned that Yahoo will be acquiring analytics package IndexTools.

  Forum members overall think it's an interesting move. While some gripe about past customer service issues with the analytics company, others have had better experience. They hope that the acquisition will improve things for everyone.

  Why now? Yahoo is going to continue to improve their offerings. You can't really blame them. Maybe IndexTools will be available for free in the future. ;)

  Forum discussion continues at WebmasterWorld and DigitalPoint Forums.