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We’ve started testing organic (also referred to as algorithmic) and paid search listings from Microsoft for up to 25 percent of Yahoo! Search traffic in the U.S.  The primary change for these tests is that the listings are coming from Microsoft. However, the overall page should look the same as the Yahoo! Search you’re used [...]

Coming off the heels of the largest-ever Q&A with David Beckham on Yahoo!, Yahoo! Answers has even more exciting news. This week, the Yahoo! Answers team made a slew of improvements that streamline search to find the information you want on the world’s most popular question-and-answer site. First up, we have three new sorting options near [...]

Soccer lovers followed coverage of the 2010 World Cup with Yahoo! Search tools and shortcuts, and today we bring you some of the tournament’s top search trends on Yahoo!. Throughout the first week of play, U.S. fans were eager to know more about the World Cup opening ceremonies, the World Cup schedule and World Cup brackets. [...]

We’ve recently enhanced Yahoo! Search Assist to provide near real-time suggestions as you type your query. You probably already use Yahoo! Search Assist to conduct your searches quickly, but now you can get even fresher suggestions, which will be especially useful when there are recent top news or events related to your search topic. [...]

We’re introducing the Yahoo! Search Widget for the Android smart phones today, making it much easier to access web search on the Android phone home screen. The UI is simple and compact to fit the size of your phone screen. Under the covers, we’ve packed in some cool features. You can type the query using the touch [...]

Soccer fans around the world will be waving their flags today as the World Cup opens in South Africa — and American enthusiasm for the world’s most popular sport is reaching new heights.  Since the beginning of the month, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in searches for terms like World Cup, FIFA World Cup teams [...]

We at Yahoo! love the search box. In fact, you can find a handy search box at the top of every Yahoo! page – be it Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Sports or omg! – as well as in our handy Yahoo! Toolbar. But nowadays, Search has evolved to mean so much more than one or two [...]

As we promised last month, we are launching Shortcuts that give you upcoming schedules for a specific team, group or match. Try searching for “worldcup schedule”, “Slovenia vs US schedule”, “brazil soccer” and “group B schedule” and get the schedule you’re looking for right on the Yahoo! Search results page. You can easily access scores, photo [...]

Back in April, we introduced a new look for Yahoo! News Search in the U.S. market, featuring news source refiners, time refiners, and rich results to help you find what you’re looking for quickly and seamlessly. We’ve just launched the new Yahoo! News Search page for French, Spanish, German, and Indonesian language users in 11 international [...]

Wondering what kinds of pictures and videos people are checking out right now? We’ve redesigned the Yahoo! Image and Video search home pages for a visual snapshot of the most popular trending topics that people are looking for in Yahoo! Search. With both video and image search, we are featuring up to five pages of topics [...]

This is a big day for Yahoo! Messenger. I’m happy to announce that we’ve opened up the Yahoo! Messenger platform for developers. This exciting SDK will allow developers to use the Yahoo! Messenger platform to create innovative new applications and services. We tried to make our SDK as simple to use as possible. We’ve exposed a [...]

An update on the Yahoo! Messenger API: This is taking a little longer than we like – We have some last mile details to take care of but we are committed to launching the new Yahoo Messenger API very soon. Let me say that we are really excited about the response and enthusiasm that we’ve received [...]

Android phone owners, the wait is over! Today marks the debut of Yahoo! Messenger App for Android, alongside the new Yahoo! Mail for Android. With the availability of our world-class Yahoo! Messenger services for Android, we’re making it easier than ever for users to access fast, reliable, and feature-rich Yahoo! experiences on one of [...]

For those of you who watch The Bachelorette on ABC, you know that Ali Fedotowsky is in the final throws of determining who is going to be her ultimate choice.   As the show nears its end, with only 5 bachelors remaining, millions of viewers are tuning in to see the drama unfold – and Jimmy [...]

Hi Everyone, Our voice and video services will be unavailable on Wednesday, June 30th between 2:30 to 4:30pm PST, due to network maintenance . This means you will not be able to use Yahoo! Messenger to make or receive voice and video calls during this time. This is one of the steps towards improving the performance of [...]

Today, we are thrilled to announce the availability of the Yahoo! Messenger One app in beta at CommunicAsia 2010.  Yahoo! Messenger One was conceived on the premise of wanting to create an integrated and easily accessible communication experience for new-to-net mobile users, offering them a central point for their communication and content needs while [...]

Yahoo! will soon open up the platform behind the popular Yahoo! Messenger service. This is big news. If you haven’t used Yahoo! Messenger, you’re in for a treat. Yahoo! Messenger is the premier instant messaging (IM) platform, used on a wide variety of desktop and mobile clients. Millions of users throughout the world already depend on [...]

Did you know that Yahoo! Messenger offers you more ways than one to stay connected with your friends? In addition to our fabulous instant messaging client, we worked with our friends at Yahoo! Mail on integrating chat which allows you to have zippy, real-time communication with your friends and family without having to leave your [...]

One of the nice things within Yahoo! Messenger is that you can add friends from other networks such as Window Live (MSN), LCS, Lotus Sametime etc directly into your friend list within Yahoo! Messenger. You can then see their presence information (online/offline) and also exchange IMs right from within Yahoo! Messenger. However, some of you [...]

Mother’s Day this year is just around the corner on Sunday, May 9th.  I am sure many of you might have planned something special for your moms for this day. Here are some of the ways Yahoo! Messenger can help to make this day even more special for you especially if you live far away from [...]

Yahoo! takes special note today of the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The most sweeping and emancipating civil rights legislation ever passed on behalf of the 60 million kids and adults with disabilities in the United States, this landmark law recognizes that every individual must be able to [...]

It took a few years to grow Yahoo!’s network of 80 smart, savvy, influential women bloggers, but it took less than an hour for them to have two trending topics—Elisa Steele (proud mom and CMO keynote speaker) and #ymotherboard—on Twitter in San Francisco as they live blogged and tweeted from the Yahoo! Mother Board Summit [...]

Another year, another reason to celebrate Yahoos giving back around the world! For the past 11 years, the Yahoo! Employee Foundation (YEF) has been empowering Yahoos to give back and make a difference in their community. The statistics below are a reminder of how much they’ve accomplished along the way. More than $10 million in grants [...]

About This News Bytes Episode: In this week’s Yahoo! News Bytes, Pamela Woon and the Digital Media Bureau take you behind the scenes at Frameline Fest to talk with James Franco, who portrays the late beat poet Allen Ginsberg in “Howl”.  Known for his roles in the Spiderman movies, “Milk” and the iconic series “Freaks and [...]

On 31 May, 2010, Yahoo! OMG! was launched in Indonesia. Similar to our OMG! portal in the U.S, Yahoo! OMG Indonesia is an entertainment site, where Indonesians find the latest and most exclusive celebrity news, blogs, photos and much more… all in local Bahasa language. Yahoo! Indonesia also partnered with content providers KapanLagi, Tempo Interaktif, Antara, [...]

Today, we are truly excited to release our first wave of new Android and HTML5 products, including Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps for Android, a new Android widget for Yahoo! Search, and our amazing HTML5-powered Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! News experiences for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. Complete product details can be [...]

Is it Web site, website, or web site? What’s the best on-screen placement for a lead story? How can you better know your site’s audience? Why should you? The rapid growth of the Web has left writers and editors relying on editorial style guides that are intended for print publishing. But these guides [...]

I’m getting psyched for my first big developer event with Yahoo!. Tomorrow we’re hosting the 3rd Annual Hadoop Summit in Santa Clara, Calif. “What’s ‘Hadoop,’” you ask, and why is it so important as to have its very own summit? Hadoop is an open-source technology that lets companies like Yahoo! crunch unimaginable volumes of data [...]

This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of the first official gay pride celebrations – originally grassroots marches in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Atlanta, created to commemorate the first anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising. Pride celebrations have come a long way since June 1970. What began as small, vocal demonstrations in a handful [...]

A click can be a powerful thing. Thanks to the tens of thousands of them from people who viewed our photo of Ben Stiller yesterday, kids in Haiti will now be able to have a new school. When we took the photo of Ben, Elisa Steele and Jeff Goodby yesterday, we promised to donate to Ben’s StillerStrong charity [...]

Reading is especially fun in the summer, sitting outside — whether on a beach, in a park, or nestled in a deck chair. The challenge is deciding what to read. Many publishers time their new releases for summer readers, and you can always find lists of recommended summer books in magazine and newspapers. If you enjoy reading [...]

The massive gushing of oil beneath the Gulf of Mexico since April has become an economic and environmental crisis that keeps sprawling with no immediate end in sight. Wildlife, sensitive wetlands, ocean habitats, and coastal businesses are all suffering as BP, the oil giant that owns the exploded well, struggles to stop the ongoing damage. The [...]

If you are one of the millions of people that checks multiple social sites daily to stay on top of what’s going on, we have some fantastic news for you. Facebook, Twitter, and Yahoo! Updates have come to My Yahoo!. Historically, My Yahoo! has been anti-social. It’s been your own personal sanctuary… your filter on the [...]

Summer is a great season for eating. Strawberries and asparagus and corn on the cob are some of my favorites, but what’s the best way to prepare corn on the cob on the grill? I need help with that every year.  If you need cooking tips, answers to food questions, or just ideas for what to [...]

The month-long sporting extravaganza known as The World Cup is here, with action starting June 11 in South Africa.  National teams compete in the fast-paced sport of soccer — or football or futbol, depending on your location — as citizens around the world cheer them on. Which country will have bragging rights for the next [...]

My Yahoo! will be making a change to the amount of time we save changes that a signed out user makes to a My Yahoo! page from two months to twenty four hours. We will continue to allow you to use My Yahoo! to its fullest extent whether you are signed in or out of [...]

“Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” is a fine book by Dr. Seuss that inspires many graduating students at this time of year. It’s also a great phrase to motivate your next travel adventure.  Vacation season is kicking into gear, and many of us start asking the common questions: Where should I go? When is best to [...]

“Saturday Night Live” had some great momentum this month: Betty White, then Alec Baldwin, then… repeats.  Momentum stalled. I’m not sure the new “MacGruber” film will be enough to fill the void most of us fans will feel until the fall.  But I have found some fun related sites that you can add to your My [...]

Our lives intersect with personal electronic gadgets more and more every day. Even if you have a flat-screen HD TV, iPhone 3G S, Kindle, and a Pentax Optio M90 camera, I’ll bet there are times you feel intimidated by all the rapid innovations and updates.  You’re not alone. Compared to the hypothetical consumer mentioned above, I’m [...]

The big summer movie season kicks off with “Iron Man 2,” and fans can expect a steady stream of high-profile films that are packed with action and stars. Surveying the latest reviews, celebrity interviews, and red-carpet action is all part of the summer-movie fun. Will Tom Cruise’s latest film bomb? Can a fourth “Shrek” find box-office [...]