Yahoo is on the verge of plummeting share market price as deep financial crisis hit it hard, but nevertheless the core values of Yahoo, it’s value of providing good products with nice user level compatibility are not lost. That’s why the Yahoo UI team is BUCKET testing it’s new interface. The team has significantly made improvements.
YUI 3 would make implementing Yahoo’s design much easier based on several goals:
‘It’s never too late to mend’ as wise men say, but for Yahoo and specially for Jerry Yang, the saying stands completely false. Yesterday we reported Yang was very close to begging Microsoft to buy it out after literally thrashing the software giant on every possible occasion. But it appears Ballmer is in no mood to turn back and has firmly put down Yang’s request. Looks like he is sticking to what he had said a couple of months back and will not budge. I personally think Microsoft will eventually buy Yahoo, but not until it has made Yahoo beg to death.
Image search usually turned out with images of all kinds and sizes, but Yahoo has rolled out a new feature for their Image Search. The new feature enables you to specify the dimensions of the images you are searching for. The results include images that are an exact match for the size you have mentioned.
The other added advantage or should I say advantages include the display of most recent images related to current news. Users can also exclude search results that may include from image sharing site Flickr etc. I guess Yahoo is finally crawling towards user friendliness to satisfy the ever demanding users.
Google has withdrawn from its Ad-Search deal with Yahoo!. This comes after months of delaying the contract due to heavy criticism from advertisers and publishers against the deal, and as a result the matter was taken to court. Though both companies had expected this sort of thing to happen, and the contract itself included time delay from regulators to decide whether the deal was beneficiary for all and could go through or not. While this wasn’t legally necessary, the companies thought it was the right thing to do.
Quoting from the official Google Blog, where David Drummond Senior VP Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer states:
Yahoo has decided to shut down it’s Yahoo Live service. The service was part of the Brickhouse program where Yahoo was supposed to try out a large number of ‘quick apps’ that it would see fit from their public response. The project’s last day will be December 3. While Yahoo! Live has been a popular webcasting platform for some, but not more most, as it seems that Yahoo thinks otherwise, and just after less than 6 months from its launch the service is being shut down.
Scott Moore, Yahoo’s SVP has decided to pull himself out of the Yahoo team. He will be joined with Al Warms who had joined Yahoo after it had acquired BuzzTracker. Moore had been responsible for overseeing Yahoo Finance along with its news and entertainment sites and had shown his disapproval of the AOL-Yahoo merger. With him Scott will take years of experience that Yahoo could have used to keep itself up with the market but many employees wouldn’t mind that given his way of dealing with things and management.
Google dumped Google Groups to look to Yahoo Answers Q&A platform for AdSense help. The advice was given recently to members of the Google AdSense Help forum, as the new site allows AdSense users to ask questions and gain responses by other users. Checking out the site, one finds that the new format is quite identical to Yahoos’. The email that was sent out to users is as follows:
We all want more from the internet, and Web searches being an important part of every web user these day’s has brought about a revolution in searching and looking for stuff. But what if you have got specific question’s, and want answers to those?
Late in the game, Microsoft today pledged to come up with an innovative add-in to it’s Live Search Engine. Google does its via it’s serach integrated service and Yahoo has it’s most successful platform of answers called Yahoo Answers.
Google might have no issues when it comes to acquiring a business, or getting involved in a partnership, but what it can’t take is people peeping into the science of how they run their business. Google’s deal with Yahoo might get a green signal if only Google permits inspectors to get in and keep an eye at their business. This signals trouble heading Yahoo’s way, as it’s obvious that a failed deal would only hammer Yahoo.
Nobody can much as to what exactly happens. Perhaps this shout from Google is primarily to put some pressure on the Department of Justice to make haste or pull this latest controversy off. One thing is for sure that Yahoo must be ready to dial in Microsoft anytime soon.
