After successfully bringing his company’s stock price down from almost $30 to $11, putting off a bid from Microsoft that would have added tremendous shareholder value and laying off thousands of employees, Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang has finally handed in his resignation today.
News of the announcement drove the share price up 11% at the start […]

For almost a year now, Yahoo! has been talking about their new ‘Yahoo! Open Strategy’. They have finally begun to roll out user profiles, which form the backbone of the social part of their open strategy.
Launching profiles is the first indication of the launch of the Yahoo! Open Strategy. It is an important landmark in […]

Yahoo! has launched a new service that could help users save some money. They have started providing a shortcut, via Yahoo! search, that will allow users to know the prices of gas at various petrol pumps in the vicinity.
Since the prices invariably vary from service station to station even in the same city - for […]

Microsoft made an investment of $240 million in Facebook, almost exactly one year ago. Facebook and Microsoft Live Search have now launched their first joint application.
Facebook users in the U.S.A. will now be able to ‘Search Facebook’ or ‘Search the Web’. Relevant ads from Microsoft adCenter will be shown along with the search results.
Henceforth when […]

Google Blog Search has a new homepage that makes it look more like a memetracker. Rather than being a pure search page, the service now resembles the Google News page, where search is combined with content aggregation.
The new Blog Search homepage is very similar to Techmeme and Memeorandum. Top stories relating to a wide variety […]

The Virtual Earth team at Microsoft has updated their platform and also added some interesting and useful new features to it in an attempt to improve the Live Search Maps offering and make it more competitive with Google Maps.
Perhaps the most useful feature in this update is the ability to provide directions with respect to […]

According to the results of a survey conducted by analysts, Cowen & Co., which were released on Monday, Google Maps has left its competitors far behind in the race.
Analysts Jim Friedland and Kevin Kopelman report that compared to their earlier study that was conducted in July 2007, the current study shows that Google Maps has […]

Following all the hullabaloo after the Yahoo! board of directors refused Microsoft’s offer to buy them over, and the threats led by investor Carl Icahn, to replace the entire board of Yahoo!, the headless chicken that is Yahoo! is now looking at merging with another collossal sinker, AOL.
When the newly constituted Yahoo! board met for […]

With the manifold increase that audio and video have recently gained on the Internet, it is becoming extremely difficult for users to find exactly whatever it is that they are looking for. In order to make the task simpler, Google has launched a speech recognition tool that enables searching within audio and video files.
A similar […]

Google seems to be capitalising on its results pages real estate by now showing two video listings side-by-side in the space normally occupied by a single search result.
In the past, individual video results occupied the place of an antire search listing, and were  accompanied by a title, a short, one-line snippet pulled from the YouTube […]