Yahoo! has come up with a new kind of personalization of search – Ideological search. Scientists at Yahoo! [Continue]
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ifacethoughtsEliminating The Thorn In Flash
Adobe has finally eliminated the thorn in Flash. It is working with search industry leaders to make Flash content indexable. Flash content was not accessible to search engines, rather it was quite laborious to make it accessible, until now. [Continue]
Yahoo! Opens Search
Yahoo! needs something strong and innovative to come out of the shadow of Google, and recently Microsoft. It has taken the route of letting others build on its search results, and I think this is a good approach. [Continue]
Yahoo! Too Takes The OpenID Plunge
Yahoo! now implements OpenID, so you can now use your Yahoo! ID to login into a service that demands an OpenID. [Continue]
From Email To Social Network
Google and Yahoo! want to build a social network out of your email contacts. Ignore Orkut, OpenSocial, Yahoo Mash and Yahoo 360. [Continue]
Move Yahoo Accounts, Geographically
Speaking of personalization and education for an average user today, I got the following question when I went to my Yahoo! mailbox today. For all the talk on the Web about being geographically independent, an average user is going to be confused about how the account will be faster if it is moving closer to his/her place. [Continue]
Action In Messaging And Online Office Space
Yahoo! has acquired Zimbra, a leader in email and collaboration software. Zimbra also provides a product for offline access called Zimbra Desktop. [Continue]
Search Engine Bigwigs And User Experience
It was interesting to read the impact of the search engine company and its philosophy on the user experience. Gord Hotchkiss has analyzed interviews with usability teams of the three bigwigs – Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Gord also looks at the balance of user experience and monetization each of them are setting with. [Continue]
Custom Querying The Web
All the content creation and publishing on the Web would not be that valuable if it could not be queried. It is the search engines and various ways of retrieving data, like feeds, that increase value of the content. No wonder, SEO is one of the most important topics to consider for any operation related to Web development. [Continue]
OpenID Through Yahoo!
Simon Willison has setup idproxy.net, that lets you use your Yahoo! account as an OpenID. In an ideal world, some or all of the sites with large user databases (Yahoo!, AOL, Google, Amazon and so on) would act as OpenID providers, allowing their users to sign in to OpenID supporting sites around the Web. [Continue]
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