Cuil Search Engine Launched
07/28/2008:
Yet another search engine has been launched to compete for your searches. Online ad revenues is huge with a big marketplace and hence everyone wants the piece of the pie. Now, a group of former Google employees have launched to compete against their previous employer. The new search engine called Cuil , which is pronounced ‘cool’, claims to provide a more comprehensive guide to the web. Cuil claims to have indexed more then 120 billion web pages with which they have to search against to provide better results in a new way. Now online time will tell if Cuil will overcome Google, or maybe can instead overcome Yahoo and MSN?.
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Yahoo introduces Glue
05/13/2008:
Yahoo introduces a new way to look at search results, the concept is called Glue. The product is in Beta stage and is a Yahoo product that is developed at the Yahoo India development center and is currently available in India. The search for a given term will display the traditional search results, and now will add search from the Image, Video, Yahoo Answers, and other resources within the same page for more information for the user.
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Microsoft, Google, Yahoo Fined
12/19/2007:
The big three online advertisers, Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo were fined for allowing online gambling businesses to advertise online gambling using the three companies respectively ads mediums. The U.S. Department of Justice announced that the fines added to the over $40 million with Microsoft is to pay the largest penalty totaling $21 million. While Yahoo will pay $7.5 million and Google is to pay $3 million.
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Yahoo Flickr Image Editing Tools
12/05/2007:
Yahoo’s online photo sharing service Flickr, an online photo sharing website, today announced the introduction of new online digital imagee editing tools that can be used by members to edit photos. The tools suite will be provided by Picnik. Flickr was purchased by Yahoo back in 2005 at which time, Yahoo discontinued it’s own Yahoo Photos service for Flickr.
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