May
25

Google Finally Commemorates Memorial Day, Like Yahoo, AOL, Live & Ask.com (Search Engine Roundtable)

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Today is Memorial Day in the United States of America. And to recognize the day, Google, Yahoo, AOL, Live.com, Ask.com, DogPile and others have special logos up. Google, who is known not to show a special logo for the day, has placed a little yellow ribbon below the search box. This is a historic move for Google, since they gone on record as saying the Google logo is not appropriate for the day. ...
May
21

Yahoo! and Microsoft gear up for Google search battle (Revolution)

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LONDON - Yahoo! and Microsoft are making a fresh assault in the battle of the search engines, as the market's subsequent number's two and three ready new products aimed at taking the wind out of Google's sails.
May
12

Google, Yahoo Seed Funders Look to Energy-Saving Companies (Fast Company Magazine)

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In the May issue I wrote about how the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center is making efficiency sexy as an investment to Silicon Valley VCs and big companies alike. Now The New York Times has caught on, reporting that Sequoia Capital, which made its name seeding Yahoo and Google, has invested in SynapSense , a UC Davis company mentioned in my story that uses sensors to lower the energy use of data ...
Apr
3

New Yahoo Image Search Better Than Google’s (ReadWriteWeb)

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Yahoo unveiled major changes to its image search service this morning and the user experience is now better than Google Image Search. Google may have all kinds of special collections (like the new Life Magazine archives) but Yahoo's image search is just more pleasing to use. The new Yahoo! interface includes more recommended search queries for related images than Google, a next-image picking ...