Google adds customization feature to Internet search
SearchWiki lets Google users re-rank, delete, and add comments on search results Google has launched a search feature that lets signed-in users re-rank, delete, and add comments on search results, according to a blog posted on Thursday. The new feature,more
12 myths about how the Internet works
Over the past 30 years the Internet Protocol has continued to evolve, but no one has been carefully documenting all of the changes Thirty years have passed since the Internet Protocol was first described in a series of technical documents written bymore
Google gives users a say on search results
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Google unveils customised search
By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley Users have to be logged in to their Google account to use SearchWiki Google has unveiled a new tool to allow users to customise their search queries. The company's SearchWiki lets usersmore
Yahoo rolls out Glue search pages in the U.S.
Yahoo's new Internet search method aggregates text, images, and video results on a single results page Yahoo rolled out a beta version of its new Glue search concept for the first time in the U.S. late Wednesday. The Internet search method aggregatesmore
Teenagers Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing
Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to a new study by the MacArthur Foundation. It may look as though kids are wasting a lot of time hanging out with new media,more
Study Finds Teenagers Internet Socializing Isnt Such a Bad Thing
Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to a new study by the MacArthur Foundation. It may look as though kids are wasting a lot of time hanging out with new media,more
Yahoo Bid Is Over, Microsoft Says
Steven A. Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, told shareholders on Wednesday that the company was no longer interested in acquiring Yahoo, setting off a 21 percent decline in Yahoos share price. Weve moved on, Mr. Ballmer said. He reiterated that amore
Yahoo OneSearch coming to T-Mobile USA
T-Mobile USA will provide Yahoo's OneSearch search engine on its phones, a Yahoo executive said Wednesday. T-Mobile is placing a OneSearch button on its phones in a deal that is to be announced soon, said Marco Boerries, executive vice president and headmore
Ballmer: Yahoo acquisition won't happen
Microsoft's CEO also hints at an annual shareholders meeting that Windows 7 could come next year A change at the helm of Yahoo won't revive a Microsoft takeover offer, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said during the company's annual shareholders meeting onmore
The hidden cost of Google Apps
(CNNMoney.com) -- What happens when a business throws out its scheduling and collaboration tools and replaces them with Google's low-cost, online business software? To find out, we at Blumsday migrated our entire shop of roughly a dozen employees andmore
Yahoo's slow-going CEO hunt
SAN FRANCISCO (Fortune) -- Tech industry watchers are already speculating on replacements for Jerry Yang, but a new chief executive for Yahoo won't likely be named until well into the new year. Yang announced Monday that he will step down as CEO when themore
Web is driven by 25-34 age group
The first generation that grew up accessing the web has come of age and is changing the way the internet is being used, according to Europe-based research released today. Net usage is booming across Europe, with more than half of users going online atmore
Yahoo Music wants to top the charts again
NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500) Music isn't necessarily the first place where you'd expect to find hordes of Grateful Dead and Black Sabbath fans. But David Skye, a new blogger on Yahoo Music, elicited hundreds of passionate comments lastmore
Now Comes the Hard Part as Yahoo Wrestles With a Question of Direction
SAN FRANCISCO ? There?s a new parlor game in Silicon Valley: guessing who will replace Jerry Yang at the helm of the troubled Internet giant Yahoo. Jerry Yang, Yahoo Chief, Steps Down(November 18, 2008) Mr. Yang, a Yahoo co-founder, said on Mondaymore
Yang quits as Yahoo head
Yahoo's co-founder and current chief executive officer Jerry Yang has announced that he will be stepping down and returning to the role of Chief Yahoo of the search company. Yang helped start the company 14 years ago and took on the top job in June 2007more
Yahoo CEO search could be long
SAN FRANCISCO (Fortune) -- Tech industry watchers are already speculating on replacements for Jerry Yang, but a new chief executive for Yahoo won't likely be named until well into the new year. Yang announced Monday that he will step down as CEO when themore
Yahoo CEO search won't be quick
SAN FRANCISCO (Fortune) -- Tech industry watchers are already speculating on replacements for Jerry Yang, but a new chief executive for Yahoo won't likely be named until well into the new year. Yang announced Monday that he will step down as CEO when themore
Amazon debuts content delivery network service
Amazon has launched a hosted content-delivery network (CDN) service that it first announced in a preliminary test version two months ago. Called CloudFront, the service joins a variety of other Internet cloud-based services that the company offers viamore
Analysts: New Yahoo CEO must shed assets for better focus
Whoever takes embattled 's place will need to pare the former Web sweetheart's services to effectively compete in a market where it is under siege from Google Inc. and multiple social media players for online advertising, analysts say. Yang, who Mondaymore
GigaOm: What Yahoo should do next
(gigaom.com) -- Yangs decision to move on isnt a surprise it was clear from his talk at a recent industry conference that he was tired . His choice to the head the company that was looking down a deep abyss a while back was an ineffectual one, and . Inmore
What's Yahoo's next move?
Yahoo Chief Executive and co-founder Jerry Yang announced Monday that he will resign from his position as soon as the company appoints a replacement for him. After a tumultuous year at the forefront of one of Web's prolific companies, Yang will return tomore
Microsoft e-mails detail internal fight on 'Vista Capable'
E-mails unsealed by a federal judge reveal that Microsoft employees lobbied hard against dropping support for WDDM as a requirement for a Vista Capable PC Numerous Microsoft employees, including some top executives, urged their company to hold the linemore
MS e-mails detail internal fight on 'Vista Capable'
E-mails unsealed by a federal judge reveal that Microsoft employees lobbied hard against dropping support for WDDM as a requirement for a Vista Capable PC Numerous Microsoft employees, including some top executives, urged their company to hold the linemore
Amazon, Capgemini partner on cloud computing
Consultancy Capgemini and Amazon.com will offer application development and hosting services using Amazon.com's infrastructure, the companies said on Tuesday. The partnership seeks to capitalize on the growing interest in so-called 'cloud computing,'more
Yahoo job search: The top contenders to replace Jerry Yang
With , the company's board now has the task of finding his successor. It will be looking for someone who can offer the leadership and vision that Yang struggled to articulate, and a steady pair of hands to calm the jittery investors who have watched themore
Yahoo's Jerry Yang to step down as CEO
After a bungled buyout offer from Microsoft, a deal with Google that fell apart and two rounds of layoffs Jerry Yang is calling it quits and stepping aside as chief executive of the company he cofounded, Yahoo said Monday. Yang, who became CEO in Junemore
Jerry Yang, Yahoo Chief, Steps Down
SAN FRANCISCO - Jerry Yang, who, as chief executive of Yahoo, resisted a takeover bid from Microsoft only to later ask that merger talks resume, said he was stepping down. In a memorandum sent to the companys staff Monday evening, Mr. Yang, 40, said hemore
Yahoo's Yang to step down as CEO
After a bungled a buyout offer from Microsoft, a deal with Google that fell apart and two rounds of layoffs Jerry Yang is calling it quits and stepping aside as chief executive of the company he cofounded, Yahoo said Monday. After a bungled buyout offermore