April, 2007
Yahoo!’s Site Explorer Now Accepts Mobile Feeds
Some new features have been added to the Yahoo! Site Explorer. The biggest addition is the support of Mobile Feeds – publishers can now submit mobile sites and feeds to Site Explorer, which enables them to get their mobile sites into Yahoo! oneSearch and gain access to Yahoo!’s mobile user base. Yahoo!’s mobile crawler will consume these [...]
Yahoo! Bookmarks and Toolbar Got Some Updates
Back in October Yahoo! launched the new Yahoo! Bookmarks and Yahoo! Toolbar to make it easier for users to save, organize, and find their favorite websites. Key features included the ability to easily organize with folders or tags, and the ability to instantly find bookmarks directly from the Yahoo! Toolbar searchbox. Today, Yahoo! is announcing the general availability, [...]
Yahoo! Announces Alpha Personalized Search
Yahoo! came up with a new search service, called Alpha, earlier this week: “Whilst aggregating feeds on one page is nothing new, we wanted to take a federated search concept one step further. With this beta, we have introduced personalisation elements that not only allow users to customise their view, but also to add their [...]
Google Introducing My Maps For Google Maps
Today, Google is launching My Maps, a new feature of Google Maps that enables users to quickly and easily create custom maps for personal use or sharing through search. With this release, creating maps mashups is now as simple as pointing and clicking. From chronicling trips, to sharing tips and documenting academic endeavors, My Maps [...]
Yahoo! April Search Index Update
The Yahoo! Search Blog announced a Search Index Update today: “We are in the process of rolling out some changes to our search results. As usual, you may see some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages that are included in the index throughout this process. This update will roll out [...]
Lots Of New Features For Live Search Maps
The Live Team has announced some cool new enhancements for the Live Search Maps service: Firefox support for 3D mapping Zooming around the virtual landscape is not just for Internet Explorer Users any more; users of Firefox 1.5 or later can click on the 3D button at http://maps.live.com and will be prompted to download and [...]
Google Announces TV Ads Trial
Google announced to deliver Google TV ads today. Working closely with their partners, EchoStar and Astound Cable, Google is currently running a trial to deliver better ads to viewers and help advertisers, operators and programmers more efficiently buy, schedule, deliver and measure ads on television. Google’s main targets for these experiment are: “Deliver more relevant [...]
Yahoo! Adds Web API For Yahoo! Mail
Yahoo! has announced a new Web API for their Email service. The Web API is accessible via SOAP and JSON-RPC, and offers developers access, to the Yahoo! Mail core functions: “With the Yahoo! Mail Web Service, you can connect to the core mail platform to perform typical mailbox tasks for premium users such as list messages [...]