Posts Tagged ‘Yahoo’

Neil Jackson

Google Trust Rank – new version

20 October 2009 | Posted by Neil Jackson | Search Strategy Director | Search
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Trust Rank from Google, not like Yahoo!
A  nice spot from Bill Slawski that Google have finally had a Trust Rank patent approved. This after abandaning their previous request for a patent going back a few years.
Trust Rank is something which gets mentioned a lot and is often confused, so here is our take on it.
Yahoo! [...]

Ayyaz Ahmed

Internet Explorer 8 is partnering with top search providers like Bing, Wikipedia, Yahoo!, Amazon

15 August 2009 | Posted by Ayyaz Ahmed | .Net Developer | Technology, Uncategorized
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Internet Explorer 8 is partnering with top search providers like Bing, Wikipedia, Yahoo!, Amazon to deliver visual suggestions that provide you with immediate answers. For example, typing “Isaac Newt” with Wikipedia visual suggestions will instantly show you a preview of the results directly in the Search Box drop-down. Look for more visual suggestion results with [...]

Neil Jackson

Search Engines join forces, Google worried?

29 July 2009 | Posted by Neil Jackson | Search Strategy Director | Search
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YaBing, or Microhoo?
Finally Yahoo! and Microsoft have decided to join forces no doubt hoping the synergy they create will be enough to take on Google in both natural search and through their online advertising platforms.
By trading search engine technology (Bing to Yahoo!) and advertising platform (Yahoo! to Bing) the plan would be to have an [...]

Tanya Goodin

The Internet is not dead… and neither is Jeff Goldblum

30 June 2009 | Posted by Tanya Goodin | CEO | Search, Social Media, Tanya Goodin
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To paraphrase Mark Twain: “Reports of the Internet’s death have been great exaggerated”. Unlike poor Michael Jackson.
Here on the Tamar blog we’ve remained relatively quiet on the subject of Michael Jackson up until now – mainly because we wanted to let the dust settle before looking for any trends or interesting outcomes. Now that the [...]

Aaron Williams

The ABC’s of API’s

4 June 2009 | Posted by Aaron Williams | Director of Technology | Search, Technology
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If you work in the digital space long enough (or are brave enough to venture into the dark windowless rooms where developers are often found slaving away behind computers), you are likely to hear the acronym API.
So what is an API and what can they do for my business?
API stands for Application Programming Interface and [...]