Posts Tagged ‘Yahoo’

Bing? Unimpressed. But Love the Yahoo Hook-Up. Here’s Why.

Bing.

Where do I even start?

I mean, as we know, though I used to love Google, I’m not exactly enamored of them now. My feelings about Google are mostly – they’ll do until something better comes along.

And I actually hope that they will be that something better. I’ve seen a bit of hope for that.

But we’ll talk about that later.

I don’t hate Microsoft, just as a preface. (With the exception of Microsoft Windows Explorer, which I hate with a passion.)

There are some Microsoft products I simply adore, if for no other reason than the fact that I owed my entire IT career at the International Monetary Fund, and later, the MGM Mirage to them. Outlook was my first email love, and I’d pay a fortune to have it run natively on a Mac. (MS Entourage me no likey.)

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Okay. Search Engine Day. Night. Whatever.

Seriously guys.

Can’t you keep the web the way it was when I left it for TWO weeks? Who is sleeping on the job? All I ever asked you guys for was to make sure nothing major happens when I’m gone.

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But it never fails. The instant I go on vacation, eleventeen different things change (or threaten to change, or start to change) about the web and I come back to an Inbox full of questions.

Says my protégée. I don’t do email anymore.

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Who’s Got a Red Y and a New Home Page? That Guy.

News and Clip ==> Yahoo’s getting a new home page, and someone has a screen capture.

The biggest change is the customizable left nav bar featuring Yahoo properties that now allows people to add or edit links to outside sites through an “application gallery” that opens up via tabs at the top and bottom of the section.

Link ==> Yahoo Readies a New Home Page – PC World

Screenshot of Yahoo’s Alleged New Homepage at Mediapost.

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We’re Doing a Search Engine Day

We haven’t had one in a while. For those of you joining us in the years since we practiced this tradition, I used to have a column originally called “Google Tuesdays” and later renamed “Search Engine Tuesdays”. It so named because it was on Tuesdays of each week that I:

  • where I  gave you a business summary of news I found that week, as well as a few sentences about its relevance to business owners,
  • showed you which resources, tools and sites to trust, and,
  • gave you one or more of my search tips to help you get more results

I stopped doing it for a while for 3 reasons 1- my failing health 2- lack of time and 3- I didn’t want to fill the echo chamber with noise.

I’m told it’s a missed feature so we’re going to bring it back for this week we’re doing on search. Your responses via Retweets, page views, comments and trackback will determine whether or not it stays.

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Tool Time Friday | Noia 2.0 (eXtreme) 3.45!

This eXtreme edition is a fully skinned version which will make it look exactly the same as the screen shot no matter what OS you are using, Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT/2000, Windows XP, MAC OSx, or Linux. It will change most elements in Firefox.

To access Theme Option, goto : Tools –> Add-ons –> Themes –> [Right click on "Noia 2.0" Theme] –> About Noia 2.0

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Yahoo Directory News : How to Get Fast Answers on Pending Submissions

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So you’ve added your site to Yahoo Directory, maybe paid the fee for a fast response. But now you have a question about your listing. Think you have to wait to get an answer via email? Think again!

Now, before I tell you what cool thing the Yahoo Directory team is doing on Twitter to help you, please remember the following. I will highlight it for emphasis, as it comes directly from the person behind this Yahoo identity on Twitter:

the quickest, most effective way to get a site reviewed for listing in the Directory is here – https://ecom.yahoo.com/dir/submit/intro/

Please don’t tweet them requests for inclusion. Because if I find out, I will personally shame you in public. :) And no, you won’t get a link out of it. Nothing but embarrassment and shame.

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