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Microsoft Yahoo! Join Hands to Fight Google

QuickOnlineTips — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:16:09 +0000

The battle of Internet Giants is back. As per a new deal, Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers.

Microsoft ’s new search engine Bing was already expanding and getting great reviews, while Yahoo! has an established presence in the online advertising space. Now Bing will expand even faster and get the scale it needs to compete with Google in the search engine space, while Yahoo will get the advertising business foothold it needed to compete with Google Adwords. Basically speaking, instead of buying each other out as before, now they have stopped competing in their common niche, and instead given way to each other where their strength lies.

Some key terms of the agreement are as follows:

The term of the agreement is 10 years

Microsoft will acquire an exclusive 10 year license to Yahoo!’s core search technologies, and Microsoft will have the ability to integrate Yahoo! search technologies into its existing web search platforms;

Microsoft’s Bing will be the exclusive algorithmic search and paid search platform for Yahoo! sites. Yahoo! will continue to use its technology and data in other areas of its business such as enhancing display advertising technology.

Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers. Self-serve advertising for both companies will be fulfilled by Microsoft’s AdCenter platform, and prices for all search ads will continue to be set by AdCenter’s automated auction process.

Each company will maintain its own separate display advertising business and sales force.

Yahoo! will innovate and “own” the user experience on Yahoo! properties, including the user experience for search, even though it will be powered by Microsoft technology.

Microsoft will compensate Yahoo! through a revenue sharing agreement on traffic generated on Yahoo!’s network of both owned and operated (O&O) and affiliate sites.

Microsoft will pay traffic acquisition costs (TAC) to Yahoo! at an initial rate of 88% of search revenue generated on Yahoo!’s O&O sites during the first 5 years of the agreement.

Yahoo! will continue to syndicate its existing search affiliate partnerships.

Microsoft will guarantee Yahoo!’s O&O revenue per search (RPS) in each country for the first 18 months following initial implementation in that country.

For more information here are the Techcrunch notes from this morning’s Yahoo-Microsoft conference call. Catch Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz explaining the agreement in this video.

Carol Bartz on our deal with Microsoft @ Yahoo! Video

In fact they set up a new site www.choicevalueinnovation.com to showcase the Microsoft Yahoo! deal.

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Microsoft Bing Overtakes Yahoo! Search

QuickOnlineTips — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:23:52 +0000

Statcounter says recently launched Microsoft’s Bing overtook Yahoo! Search as the number two search engine in the United States and worldwide on Thursday (4th June)!

StatCounter Global Stats is a free online service which tracks market share of search engines, browsers and operating systems. A StatCounter press release confirms the the event

StatCounter’s analysis for Thursday finds that in the US Bing leapfrogged Yahoo to take second place on 16.28%. Yahoo! has 10.22%. Google still commands the US search engine market with 71.47%. StatCounter data globally finds that Bing at 5.62% has taken a narrow lead over Yahoo! (5.13%). Google worldwide retains 87.62% of the market.

Here are the June 4 Global Stats and US Stats. The netizens have given a huge positive response to Microsoft’s new browser Bing, and it is to be seen if the euphoria will sustain.

Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Search Engine Market Share

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Free Domain, Free Hosting Deal for Geocities Users!

QuickOnlineTips — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:51:55 +0000

Yahoo! Geocities is closing down and webmasters hosting sites on Geocities need to find an alternate free hosting solution soon to move their websites. Dreamhost is offering Geocities users 2 years of free web hosting!

What is the deal? Free 2 years unlimited hosting. Free domain name!

What is required? They need to verify you are an existing GeoCities customer. So you need to login to Geocities and create a new web page or edit an existing page and post the text �I�m off to DreamHost!� on it. Since new users cannot sign up to Geocities, only existing users can do that.

What is the promo code ? When signing up for Dreamhost, put the full url to that web page you created with the notice as the promo code and you�ll get a 2 year plan (which would otherwise cost $214.80) totally free!

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Yahoo! MyWeb Closes: Switch to Delicious

QuickOnlineTips — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:50:42 +0000

Yahoo! MyWeb is shutting down on March 18, 2009 and they are moving all users to Yahoo! Bookmarks. After Yahoo! acquired Delicious, a very popular online social bookmarking service, this news was expected as both services were competing and Delicious has a very active user base with lots of delicious tools built by the community.

The main purpose of Yahoo! MyWeb was to save your bookmarks in a place where you can always find them, share your bookmarks with family, friends and colleagues and discover new things by browsing what’s popular or interesting to you.

Now they suggest that Yahoo! MyWeb users have 2 options – Switch to Yahoo! Bookmarks if you need only private bookmarking. For all users, all your MyWeb bookmarks are already available in Yahoo! Bookmarks.

But if you enjoy sharing bookmarks and exploring others bookmarks, then switch to Delicious (formerly called del.icio.us). However, migrating to delicious is a 3 step process. First, export your bookmarks in XML format and save this file to your computer; register for a Delicious account; and then upload this XML file using the Manual Import option.

If you are done with Yahoo! and plan to move all your MyWeb bookmarks to other bookmarking services, try the export tools, which will create a bookmarks archive easily readable by 3rd party services and browsers.

Our experience – QOT has been bookmarked several times on Yahoo! MyWeb as well as Delicious. But though delicious front page can drive huge site traffic, MyWeb has not been able to generate those huge traffic spikes. Even Yahoo Buzz has not been successful in driving the promised highest traffic ever after it opened up to all bloggers.

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Yahoo! Briefcase Free Online Storage Closing Down

QuickOnlineTips — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:07:35 +0000

Yahoo! Briefcase, the popular free file storage service associated with Yahoo! accounts will be closing on March 30, 2009. Yahoo! advises you must either download or delete your files by March 30, 2009, after which you will not be able to access your Yahoo! Briefcase account and your files will be deleted by default.

Its nostalgic because most old-time veteran Yahoo! email users (like me) stored their files in Yahoo! briefcase; a time when the Yahoo email account offered only few MB of email storage space. But over time Yahoo email has started offering unlimited storage space (as have most other free email services), and people now store most commonly used files as email attachments, which too have grown in size. Moreover with more free online storage services expanding into the market, Yahoo briefcase was bound to face severe competition.

The ever increasing broadband internet speeds have made online files as easily accessible and downloadable as offline files on your computer with the added advantage that they can be accessed from anywhere in the world. Now lets get downloading our files from Yahoo! briefcase before I forget…

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Britney Spears is Most Searched Term on Yahoo! Again

QuickOnlineTips — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:34:44 +0000

Britney Spears has topped Yahoo! 2008 Year in Review yet again. Yahoo! announced the most popular searches, themes, and trends as part of its year end review as estimated via billions of searches conducted by millions of Yahoo! users around the globe. Can you guess who are featuring in the top 10 list this year.

Britney Spears has been the most popular search term and person for seven out of eight years!

The singer’s steep trajectory to redemption restored her to the top of searches. Her year began with a police visit, hospital stay, and psych evaluation. She returned under her father’s shelter and, by summer, settled custody with her ex. Professionally, she guested on a sitcom, won thrice at the MTV Video Music Awards, broke records with “Womanizer,” relaunched her site, and released a documentary detailing her fall and comeback…by age 27.

Britney has recently launched her website and started blogging. She became famous online for topping the top ten viruses using celebrity names, and is a favorite with celebrity baby naming contests. However, this year she is no longer the most dangerous celebrity to search for in cyberspace.

Its not surprising that Barack Obama was the second most searched person in 2008. Other most popular searched celebrities in top 10 include Miley Cyrus, Jessica Alba, Lindsay Lohan and Angelina Jolie. Other Popular entertainment properties in top 10 included wrestling (WWE), video games (RuneScape), anime (Naruto) and television (American Idol).

Top 10 Rising Celebrity Searches is topped by Miley Cyrus, followed by Vanessa Anne Hudgens, Chris Brown, Jonas Brothers, Rihanna …

Top 10 Searched Influential Women is topped by Angelina Jolie, followed by Sarah Palin, Oprah, Hillary Clinton, Gina Carano …

Anyway Britney does it again!

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Yahoo! Web Analytics Offers Real-Time Traffic Statistics

QuickOnlineTips — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:55:28 +0000

Another site traffic statistics tool hits the web, and its called Yahoo Analytics. Based on a similar name as Google Analytics, they introduce Yahoo! Web Analytics as a powerful enterprise site analytics tool that provides real-time insight into visitor behavior on your website with powerful and flexible tools and dashboards.

A key advantage of Yahoo Analytics, (much like Woopra, but without the 10K pageviews limit) is you get detailed real-time reporting within minutes after an action occurs on your website so that webmasters can quickly identify dips in key site metrics or monitor the performance of new content. Real time traffic monitoring is really an addictive feature.

New features like drag & drop data filters, custom report wizards, and segmentation selector, allows you to view the performance or characteristics of specific types of products, visitors and web pages, which will help online marketers and website designers enhance the visitor experience, increase sales and reduce marketing costs.

Earlier this year Yahoo! had acquired IndexTools, a leading provider of Web analytics software for online marketing. Now they have launched IndexTools in a new avatar as Yahoo! Analytics. With huge competition in the site analytics space, and Sitemeter ready to upgrade,� only time will tell if Yahoo! will replace Google metrics on websites.

Yahoo! Web Analytics is currently being offered to Yahoo! Small Business customers who host e-commerce sites with Yahoo!, as well as to advertisers who work with Yahoo! Custom Solutions and Yahoo! Buzz Marketing. They are also rolling out to third-party application developers who build widgets and other mini-apps for Yahoo! users via developer network or Yahoo! Open Strategy tools.� They� will be rolling the service out in phases for the remainder of 2008 and into next year.

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Share Pink Photos on Flickr: Support Breast Cancer Charities

QuickOnlineTips — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:42:00 +0000

Its time to search for all your Pink photos, upload them to Flickr and share them on the Pink 2008 group. October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and your pink photos can help raise up to �30,000 for local charities supporting breast cancer research and treatment.

Photo by Ibleo

Yahoo! for Good will donate �1 for each pink photo added to this group, up to a maximum of �30,000, which will be split between 5 charities in UK, Germany, France, Spain and Italy. Remember you can add up to 5 pink photos every day all of October.

By simply uploading pink photos, you can contribute to breast cancer research by helping Yahoo! donate some funds to these charities. Is you digital camera ready to snap some pink pictures?

Find more beautiful pink photos who got The Perfect Pink Diamond award.

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Yahoo! Public Open Hack Day 2008

QuickOnlineTips — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:19:39 +0000

Yahoo! is hosting another Open Hack Day, and this time instead of being a Yahoo! employees only event, they opened it to the public. Hackers have a chance to show their coding and programming skills to a dedicated community.

The Yahoo! open public hack day 2008 will be held at Yahoo! HQ in Sunnyvale, CA, USA on 12-13 September 2008. Join the workshops and hands-on access to the latest APIs, code all night and preview new components of Yahoo!’s Open Strategy. Space is limited, request an invite now. If you enjoy hacking, love coding, play with Yahoo! stuff, this is the event for you to show your skills.

They are inviting SearchMonkey and BOSS developers and partners – simply mention “Yahoo! Search” in the submission form have first 50 tickets reserved for you.

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Yahoo! Buzz Opens to All: Get Ready to Crash Servers

QuickOnlineTips — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:58:14 +0000

Yahoo! Buzz is now open to all website owners and publishers. Yahoo! Buzz is well known for sending the highest traffic ever, and is the best way to get featured on the Yahoo! homepage.

The beta test was limited to a few popular websites (who could survive extraordinary spikes of traffic) and webmasters and bloggers kept joining the waiting list. After they kept reminding list members that “We can�t wait to bring you on board!“, its great that they have finally opened the doors to all.

Anyone can now add Buzz buttons to their site which will allow readers to vote up the stories in various categories. However, voters will require a Yahoo! ID to submit and buzz the story. But once you start buzzing and voting, you can keep track of all your buzzing activity. When you buzz a story, they offer a cool alert with related stories too.

I have also added buzz buttons below each post and readers can now vote for our stories too. Some story might make it to the Yahoo! homepage and the servers will surely crash on the first traffic spike. Shared hosting services hate such kind of unpredictable spiky traffic as it compromises the uptime of other sites on the same server. But WP-Supercache is a great tool to survive a huge traffic spike.

Some blogs have added the Buzz Widget to their sites like this

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