Yahoo Abandons “Do Not Track”, Citing Lack Of Industry Standard
Yahoo yesterday announced that it will no longer adhere to Do Not Track browser signals, further compromising the effectiveness of the setting in the online ecosystem. “As of today, web browser Do Not Track settings will no longer be enabled on Yahoo. As the first major tech company to…
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Yahoo Testing A Knowledge Graph Lookalike In Search Results
One of Yahoo’s latest search results tests should look awfully familiar. The website All Google Testing discovered a test that turns the right column of Yahoo’s search results page into a dead ringer for Google’s Knowledge Graph. The post even offers some instructions on how to…
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Why Yahoo’s Not Going To Steal The Search Default For iPhone Away From Google
Apparently Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wants to be the default search for Apple’s Safari browser on iPhone and iPad and has been preparing to make a solid pitch. Well, we all want things we can’t have, and I’d be incredibly surprised if Yahoo got its wish here. Kara Swisher over at…
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Search Market Share: Yahoo Hits New Low About To Slip Into Single-Digits
On the heels of Yahoo’s Q1 2014 earnings in which its search business showed signs of life comScore released new monthly search market share figures for the US market. They show Yahoo with 10.1 percent of the market — a new low for the company. It would appear that Yahoo is continuing…
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Google Search Share Stable, Bing Growth Continues At Yahoo’s Expense
In February Google controlled 67.5 percent of US search query volume, according to comScore. Bing had 18.4 percent and Yahoo 10.3 percent. These numbers were essentially unchanged from last month. Compared with a year ago, Bing’s share has grown and Yahoo’s declined. In February 2013…
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Update: “When Do The Olympics Opening Ceremonies Start?” Now You CAN Ask Yahoo
Yesterday I wrote about my search experience in trying to find out when the Olympics Opening Ceremonies will take place and when they’ll air in the U.S. That post was titled “When Do The Olympics Opening Ceremonies Start?” Whatever You Do, Don’t Ask Yahoo. An update is in order. Today, I…
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Yahoo Adds Local Business Snapshots Next To Search Results
You’re gonna say to yourself, “That looks a lot like Google’s local search results.” I’m talking about the latest interface change that Yahoo has announced: the display of local business information alongside search results. The local business info includes basic…
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Bing Ends 2013 With All-Time High In US Market Share, But Google Also Up [comScore]
Bing ended 2013 with an all-time high market share of search activity inside the US, but it was Google with the biggest monthly gain in December according to the latest comScore qSearch data. Google’s share of search queries was up 0.6 percent in December to 67.3 percent. Using…
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Yahoo’s News Digest App Is “Summly 2.0″
In addition to a range of other announcements at CES yesterday, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer introduced a new news app, Yahoo News Digest. It was built under the supervision of Summly founder Nick D’Aloisio. Summly was acquired by Yahoo in March of 2013 for an estimated $30 million. Summly itself was…
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Yahoo Tells SEC: 31% Of Our Revenue Comes From Microsoft
Yahoo has revealed in a US Securities & Exchange Commission filing that nearly one-third of its revenue last quarter — 31% — came from its search deal with Microsoft, according to a Bloomberg report. That’s far higher than the “more than 10%” figure Yahoo…
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Yahoo-Microsoft Search Tensions On Public Display In Court Ruling
Microsoft has essentially had to sue Yahoo to get the company to fully comply with the terms of their 2010 “Search Alliance” agreement. Yahoo under Marissa Mayer had sought to delay rollouts of Bing search results in Taiwan and Hong Kong, awaiting a new Microsoft CEO. Microsoft CEO…
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Yahoo’s Mayer: “Our Search Share Has Declined” But She’s Optimistic About Opportunities
Yahoo is making progress in a number of product areas under CEO Marissa Mayer, but search isn’t one of them — a fact that Mayer herself admitted during today’s Q3 earnings call. Yahoo’s US share of the search market was just 11.3 percent in September, according to…
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Yahoo Updates Answers For Social And SEO Value
It’s amazing to me that it took Yahoo so long to update its Answers property. Once a thriving Q&A network and social search site, Yahoo really let Answers go to seed. However the company announced yesterday that it was rolling out a new user-experience including mobile optimization. Even…
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Google Dwarfs Bing & Yahoo As Traffic Source For Major News Sites
Google is said to have about 65-70 percent market share of searches in the U.S., but for many publishers, Google’s share of incoming search traffic is much higher. That’s certainly the case with major news sites like Reuters, Mashable, Dallas Morning News, The Next Web and others that…
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Over 19 Billion Searches In July, Google And Bing Both Up
Earlier today comScore released July 2013 US search market share data. The figures reflect modest growth for Google, stasis for Bing and contraction for everyone else. Google bumped up slightly from last month to 67 percent market share, while Bing hovered just below 18 percent. Yahoo lost a tenth…
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Bing: We Added A Border To Our Ads To Make Them More Visible
In response to our post yesterday about the often-invisible background shading on ads in the search engine results, Derrick Connel, Corporate Vice President of Bing Program Management at Microsoft, followed up with Danny Sullivan on Facebook to say: As a small comment on Bing — the ads have 2…
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Google Gets “Lowest Score Ever” In Customer Satisfaction Survey
There’s a mystery surrounding the latest customer satisfaction numbers released by ForeSee Results (for the American Customer Satisfaction Index [ACSI]). Published late last night, they indicate the lowest levels of consumer satisfaction with search engines (and portals) since 2003. The…
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Desktop Search Activity Up 12% YOY In June, 4th Straight Month Of Double-Digit Gains [comScore]
Desktop search activity continues to rebound, and was up 12 percent year-over-year in June according to the latest comScore qSearch data just out today. ComScore estimates that there were 19.2 billion “core” desktop searches last month. That’s down four percent from the 20 billion…
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Yahoo Image Search Now Serving Up Getty Images For Travel Related Search Queries
According to today’s announcement, Yahoo Image Search has been updated to deliver Getty Images for travel-related searches. When a user performs an image search on a specific place or country, Yahoo will serve up a collection of Getty Images from the location. Users can hover over an image to…
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Yahoo To Shutter AltaVista, Axis & Several More Products
Out with the old. Out with the new. Yahoo’s latest round of spring cleaning includes the shut down of one of the web’s oldest search services (AltaVista) and one of the newest (Yahoo Axis), along with 10 other Yahoo products and services. Goodbye AltaVista AltaVista launched way back in…
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