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Search Engine Watch February 18, 2004 Chris Sherman	Yahoo! Birth of a New Machine Yahoo is launching a brand new search engine today, with its own index and ranking mechanisms, casting aside its long-standing use of Google-powered search results. The move is bound to roil the industry and sets in motion a new race for the claim of web search champion.
Information Today March 8, 2004 Barbara Quint	Yahoo! Pursues Invisible Web Content for Its Search Engine Having launched a major challenge to Google's dominance of the Web search engine field Yahoo! has now added a Content Acquisition Program that offers enhanced coverage to both commercial and noncommercial data sources.
Information Today August 6, 2009 Avi Rappoport	The Big Three of Web Search Becomes the Big Two For end-user searchers and intermediaries, this search engine merging is a loss: Consolidation means common queries are likely to have more helpful results, but the variety and diversity provide more results for unusual questions, the long tail of search.
Search Engine Watch July 21, 2004 Christine Churchill	Meet The Crawlers Representatives of Yahoo, Google, Ask Jeeves and Looksmart offer an inside glimpse of recent developments at the major search engines. The general focus for the major search engines continues to be on the user experience.
InternetNews May 6, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Tips From the Search Crowd You want to make sure the search engines find your site and rank it well? Follow some basic rules of the information highway, search experts say.
Search Engine Watch June 28, 2005 Chris Sherman	Yahoo Integrates Personal & Social Search with MyWeb 2.0 Yahoo's just-launched MyWeb 2.0 lets you search both your own 'personal web' and pages saved by members of a trusted community of contacts.
InternetNews April 29, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Yahoo YQL Update Reaches for Developers With the new YQL Execute version, Yahoo is extending its technology to enable developers to execute code as well.
Information Today October 14, 2010 Avi Rappoport	Search and Business Intelligence: The Humble Inverted Index Wins Again Text search engine technology, using sophisticated versions of inverted indexing, can create files that are effectively shadow databases in much less space, optimized for fast retrieval.
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Search Engine Watch January 7, 2003 Danny Sullivan	Yahoo To Buy Inktomi If all goes as planned, Yahoo will become the proud owner of Inktomi by the end of March or earlier. The company announced its intention to buy Inktomi for $235 million on December 23. A look at how the deal may help Yahoo bring in more searchers, as well as search revenue.
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2004 Greg R. Notess	On The Net - The New Yahoo! Search With all the changes at various search engines, Yahoo! has now risen to the top as one of the major places to look beyond Google.
Search Engine Watch May 18, 2004 Danny Sullivan	Yahoo Reawakens The Paid Inclusion Debate Yahoo drew widespread criticism for new paid inclusion programs launched in March. What is Yahoo doing? How does it impact the advertiser and searcher? Are there changes Yahoo should be making? The first in a series of articles looking at paid inclusion.
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InternetNews June 29, 2005	Yahoo Search Gets Social Yahoo released a limited beta of My Web 2.0, a search personalization play that uses elements of social media to improve search results.
InternetNews November 27, 2007 Larry Barrett	Still Eyeing Google, IBM Refreshes Enterprise Search IBM's free, updated OmniFind Yahoo Edition helps users better manage unstructured data, while Google strikes a reseller deal with Dell.
Searcher October 2000 Stephen E. Arnold	The 'R' Technology Revolution: Relationship, Research Revenue Single letters are the marketer's touchstones. We have the ubiquitous "e" used in company names, and, as one pundit exclaimed, "E-nough." We want to focus on "R" --- relationship technologies gathering research to produce revenue...
Information Today July 21, 2003 Paula J. Hane	Yahoo! to Buy Overture for $1.6 Billion Yahoo!, one of the first subject directories on the Web and now a major search portal, has announced it will purchase the commercial search company, Overture Services, Inc., which specializes in Web advertising and operates the AltaVista.com and AlltheWeb.com sites.
InternetNews November 29, 2007 Kenneth Corbin	Ads Coming to PDFs Courtesy of Adobe, Yahoo Adobe and Yahoo today announced a new service that will allow marketers to place ads in Adobe's Portable Document Format.
Information Today April 25, 2005 Paula J. Hane	Search Engines Roll Out New Personalization Options Several major search engines, such as Ask Jeeves and Yahoo!, are offering personalization upgrades to retain searchers.
InternetNews January 20, 2004 Janis Mara	Yahoo! Lab to Cook Up New Search Tech Yahoo!'s new research group will help the Internet giant fight for search superiority.
Search Engine Watch May 6, 2003 Danny Sullivan	Yahoo's Search Engine Continues Evolving A new page dedicated just to Yahoo Search has been added, allowing those who want to bypass all the Yahoo portal and network information that crowds the regular Yahoo home page. The Yahoo Search page presents a Google-like pure search face to the world.
Information Today August 2004 Barbara Quint	Yahoo! Search Joins OCLC Open WorldCat Project OCLC has expanded its online library locator service for books to Yahoo! Search.
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InternetNews April 10, 2007 Andy Patrizio	SalesForce.com Gets Unstructured Salesforce.com is broadening its database capabilities by adding the ability to work with unstructured data to its AppExchange and CRM applications.
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InternetNews August 24, 2009	Yahoo Shows Off Social, Search Enhancements The pioneering Web portal talks up new integrated Mail and social features and still commits to search innovation.
Search Engine Watch February 9, 2005 Mike Grehan	Surveying the Search Landscape At the Search Engine Strategies conference on search engine marketing and optimization issues, acknowledged search engine expert Danny Sullivan surveyed the past year's search engine events and looked toward the future.
Search Engine Watch October 5, 2004 Chris Sherman	Yahoo Introduces Personal Search Yahoo has enhanced its My Yahoo service with personalization features including search history, the ability to save pages to a 'personal web' and block URLs from appearing in search results.
Information Today December 2006 Paula J. Hane	IBM and Yahoo! Introduce Free Enterprise Search Tool IBM and Yahoo! have introduced IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition.
ONLINE May 2000 Danny Sullivan	Avoid the Void: Quick and Easy Site Submission Strategies "If I build it, they will come." This is one of the worst assumptions a Webmaster can make. No one will come unless you also promote your Web site, and search engines are one of the most important places to do this....
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2006 Greg R. Notess	On The Net - Tracking Your Search History Commercial databases and traditional online systems have offered a search history feature for decades. Web search engines are finally catching up. The options vary greatly among them, but all raise a number of privacy issues.
Search Engine Watch October 9, 2002 Danny Sullivan	Yahoo Renews With Google, Changes Results After months of speculation, Yahoo announced today that it has renewed its relationship to use Google's results as part of its search listings. In addition, Yahoo made a substantial change to end its historic barrier between human-powered and crawler-based search results.
InternetNews September 28, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Yahoo Desktop Search Out of Beta Yahoo has released its Desktop Search to the public. The product, which was released in beta in January, now includes LiveWords contextual search.
Search Engine Watch October 1, 2002 Danny Sullivan	Death Of A Meta Tag Now supported by only one major crawler-based search engine -- Inktomi -- the value of adding meta keywords tags to pages seems little worth the time.
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InternetNews July 15, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Internet Media Meets Media Eggheads UC Berkeley and Yahoo team up on a research lab. Engineers at the lab will focus on search technology and social and mobile media, among other things.
D-Lib March 2006 Daniel J. Cohen	From Babel to Knowledge: Data Mining Large Digital Collections High-quality digitization and thorough text markup may be attractive for those creating digital collections, but a familiarity with information theory and data-mining techniques makes one realize that it may be more worthwhile to digitize a greater number of books or documents at a lower standard for the same cost.
Search Engine Watch June 22, 2005 Chris Sherman	Yahoo to the Max Extreme searcher Ran Hock has published a new book, this time taking an in-depth look at the wide range of tools and services offered by Yahoo.
InternetNews March 11, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Yahoo Freshens up Its Services Portfolio Engineers added several features to its range of services, as Yahoo seemingly ramps up a contextual ad service.
Information Today March 3, 2008	Hot Neuron Introduces Document Clustering Software Hot Neuron announced the release of version 1.0 of its Clustify document clustering software, aimed at helping corporations and law firms explore, organize, and tag large document sets.
Search Engine Watch March 22, 2004 Greg Jarboe	Yahoo News Upgrades To Take On Google News Yahoo released a new version of its news search engine late last week, a new move in what may be a modern-day version of the great newspaper wars.
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