Category: Yahoo
Looking back, Yahoo Australia’s purchase of OzTips
It was an interesting move around 1 year ago when Yahoo Australia purchased sports tipping website, Oztips.com. Due to Yahoo’s strong market position as a leading sporting news publication in Australia it was a strategic move to get its news users moving across and complementing their sports tipping service which can be played amongst family, […]
Read More | ShareYahoo sells Delicious to YouTube Founders
Yahoo has now sold their social bookmarking service, Delicious, to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. There has been a fair amount of speculation that Yahoo was looking to sell off Delicious as they continually withdrew resources from the Delicious project. Regardless the site continues to get high traffic (Alexa rank: 239) and it […]
Read More | ShareMobile Search Market Share Statistics, April 2011 – Australia
Today let’s have a look at the Mobile Search Market share amongst the leading Search Engines being used in Australia. The 3 main search engines used in Australia are (obviously): – Google – Bing – Yahoo Here is a graph showing the current market shares: As you can see Google has over 99% of the […]
Read More | ShareSearch Engine Market Share Statistics, April 2011 – Australia
We have had a look at the Search Engine Market shares in Australia for April 2011. The main players in the Search space in Australia are: – Google – Bing – Yahoo As I’m sure you already knew! What is interesting though is Google’s penetration into the market still remains far far ahead of any […]
Read More | ShareBing & Yahoo USA Search Market Share Growing, Australia Next?
According to new stats released by Experian Hitwise – Bing and Yahoo have increased their share of the United States Search Market during March. According to the figures Bing had 14.32% of the US Search Market, Yahoo had 15.69% (which is now powered by Bing however in Australia Yahoo Search has not switched over to […]
Read More | ShareYahoo to release Instant Search Feature
Yahoo is looking to rollout a new Instant Search Feature similar to Google Instant Search – called Yahoo Search Direct. Search Direct will show you the latest trending topics on the internet, and also pre-fill the search form to predict and displaying common search queries. The product is currently in Beta and can be accessed […]
Read More | ShareYahoo Network to allow signin with Facebook/ Google login
According to the Yahoo Corporate Blog, the Yahoo Network will soon allow you to sign-in to Yahoo! sites with your Facebook login or Google ID. Facebook already implemented sign-in with OpenID in 2008, and this next step will surely increase the activity on Yahoo sites. Currently Yahoo is attracting around 600 million visitors a month […]
Read More | ShareYahoo and Bing Australian Search Results merging this month
Last year in the USA – Bing replaced the results in a Yahoo! search queries with their own Bing results. Now later this month Bing will merge their results with Yahoo on both Bing Australia and Yahoo Australia. Therefore if you run a search on either Yahoo or Bing it should give you the same […]
Read More | ShareWeb 2.0 Summit Video, Facebook, Yahoo, Google execs
The Web 2.0 Summit showcases some of the most influential and successful web entrepreneurs such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Eric Schmidt, Yahoo’s Carol Bartz, Twitter’s Evan Williams, AT&T’s John Donovan. This is a very interesting conference held in San Francisco, topics discussed include social media, e-commerce, classifieds sales such as Amazon – watch the […]
Read More | ShareAustralian Search Engine Market update October 2010
Looking at the Search Engine market shares for October there really are not many surprises. Unlike the USA – Yahoo in Australia has never commanded much of the search queries generated whilst Google has been around. Even with the Yahoo7! partnership and limited TV advertising Yahoo receives this has not impacted their search market share […]
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