Yahoo to Add Real-Time Search Results
I’m not exactly sure how great this is, but: “Unlike traditional Web search results, which are ranked largely by analyzing what sort of Web pages link to a particular Web page, OneRiot’s search results are based on the links that people are sharing in real-time through services like Twitter and Digg and other data. Searching [...]
How Top 20 Popular Websites Looked When They Launched
Top 20 Popular Websites looked when they launched! Images/List courtesy of Telegraph.co.uk and archive.org. Figured this would be an interesting thing to post up. I always like to look back at some of the Web 1.0 designs. Hell, I still (SADLY) design some “Web 1.0″ websites. Still trying to unleash my inner creativity (and learn [...]
Jerry Yang Out, Carol Bartz In: Yahoo’s New CEO
It was announced earlier today that Carol Bartz is going to be the CEO successor of Jerry Yang at Yahoo. I’ve definitely heard of Carol Bartz before, but never in “detail”, so obviously something as large as this would spark me to do some research on her. I’ve originally known her as the CEO for [...]
Jerry Yang – “I believe the best thing for Microsoft to do is to buy Yahoo”
Well, this was an interesting story for me! With recent developments regarding the breakdown of talks between Google and Yahoo, Yahoo! just released this article at 9AM EST this morning. Now that quasi-white knight Google is out of the picture, Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang has some advice for Microsoft: “To this day, I [...]
Microsoft Decides To Forget About Purchasing Yahoo!
Yep. It has been announced that Microsoft isn’t going to bend over backwards for Yahoo anymore. Yahoo! didn’t think their offer from $31.00 to $33.00 was enough! “Despite our best efforts, including raising our bid by roughly $5 billion, Yahoo! has not moved toward accepting our offer. After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded [...]
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