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Archive for October 2008

Comparision of Yahoo and Google Interface Design

Posted by: varunsharma1800 on: October 29, 2008

As Google and Yahoo! continue their volley of product offerings, I thought it would be useful to compare the interface design solutions each company employed to solve similar user needs. In other words: how does Yahoo’s version of a product (Maps, Local Search, Image Search, etc.) compare to Google’s? Though some product offerings are virtually [...]

Yahoo Finance to be Supported by Google

Posted by: varunsharma1800 on: October 21, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft’s four-month-long courtship of Yahoo has finally thrown Yahoo into the arms of their biggest common rival, Google.

Google and Yahoo said Thursday that they had reached an agreement under which Google would deliver ads next to some of Yahoo’s search results and on some of its Web sites in the United States [...]

Google search technology dumped by Yahoo

Posted by: varunsharma1800 on: October 16, 2008

Yahoo dropped Google as the default search technology provider for its U.S.-based sites late Tuesday, signaling the beginning of the end for the Web’s most high-profile marriage of convenience.
The change occurred at 9:30 p.m. PST Tuesday when Yahoo relaunched the search properties for its U.S.-based sites, including its Yahoo.com flagship home page. Yahoo replaced [...]

Microsoft Unveils Its Latest Browser Against Google

Posted by: varunsharma1800 on: October 14, 2008

Microsoft released a web browser on Wednesday that includes a feature that could affect the advertising model of internet rivals such as Google.
The Internet Explorer 8 browser’s InPrivate setting lets users access websites without disclosing their browsing habits, which websites need to be able to do to deliver targeted advertising. This is a business Google [...]

Payment Processing with Yahoo Merchant

Posted by: varunsharma1800 on: October 10, 2008

If you’ve been marketing online for awhile, you know that processing payments can be a little challenging at times. If you don’t have a merchant account, you may be wondering whether to get one or use a payment service. You may also be wondering if the payment service you are considering will work with your [...]

Using Google Earth and GPS Combination

Posted by: varunsharma1800 on: October 9, 2008

We were planning a visit to a relatives house, one to which we’ve been but I had forgotten exactly which road to turn on to get there. We would be taking our 5th-wheel trailer, as we’d be camping at their homestead.
The Find > Address answer in my GPS was ambiguous. I wanted solid confirmation that [...]

Searching Google and Yahoo Together

Posted by: varunsharma1800 on: October 7, 2008

Search Engine : This is the tool which is used by almost all the Internet Users when they start browsing. Except for a few known and popular sites which are already fed into our brain, we all depend on Search for our day to day Internet requirements. From Shopping to Business development , and for [...]

Google Search and 419 Scammers

Posted by: varunsharma1800 on: October 4, 2008

419 Scammers are starting to use technology more often to swindle innocent victims. I see advanced and professionally designed e-mails and websites, clever social engineering skills and scam e-mails targeted at specific people on a daily basis. That was probably the aim of the scammer who used Google Search to find Yahoo! and AOL e-mail [...]

Making Use of the Yahoo Directory

Posted by: varunsharma1800 on: October 3, 2008

The first search engines online were very simple, and didn’t work nearly as well as the ones we use today. That was to be expected, as everything that is used by many people online has to start somewhere, but grows as users grow and change. New technologies make things better, and also allows those things [...]

Reverse Phone Lookup Service of Google

Posted by: varunsharma1800 on: October 1, 2008

There are some that consider Google to be the king of the search engines, but that does not mean that everyone uses them when they need more information. If you are one of the latter, you should think about logging onto their site when you have important information to find. When you want to know [...]