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Yahoo Announces Change To Shorter Descriptions informs Frank Watson who received two e-mails from the search engine company.
"Yahoo will be cutting off ads at 75 characters. They had started this shortened descriptions some time ago but let you enter longer descriptions and they would only show the first 75 characters. Seems now you will not [...]

I received two emails this morning both stating the same thing (slightly different subject lines) - Yahoo will be cutting off ads at 75 characters. They had started this shortened descriptions some time ago but let you enter longer descriptions and they would only show the first 75 characters.
Seems now you will not have the [...]

Yahoo today launched what it’s calling the “new Yahoo Search.” The biggest changes are the introduction of Search Assist, a pre-search query refinement tool that Yahoo has been testing since July; and blended search results that include more photos, videos, and Shortcuts.
Search Assist refines queries by providing related topics as searchers type to assist [...]

I attended the Microsoft Searchification event yesterday. The most important thing that happened here is that Microsoft has finally suceeded in offering a differentiated search product, and this is what made the day so important.
Brad Goldberg started the day with an overview presentation on some basic facts about the search market. One very [...]

Yahoo has been on a search refinement kick lately, which continued on Friday with the release of Search Suggest for Yahoo Toolbar for Internet Explorer.
“We really believe that Search Suggestions improves your search experience. By automatically giving you suggestions based on what you’ve typed (as you’re typing), you can get to what you’re [...]

Ask.com has seen brighter days. It’s one thing when nobody thinks you can compete with Google (Yahoo and MSN have yet to accomplish that), but it’s quite another to lose continually despite all efforts. The algorithm may have killed Jeeves, but that may have been a bad idea. (Technically, Jeeves is encased in carbonite. We [...]

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), and US Public Interest Research Group (US PRIG), are about as happy about the Google DoubleClick deal as Microsoft was, but for different reasons. Microsoft’s beef (as everybody sat back, pointed, and tried to decide between pot and kettle) was about antitrust concerns. [...]

There’s no denying that Google is far and away the most visited search engine on the Internet, eclipsing Yahoo in terms of user base by quite a significant margin. Is it possible that Yahoo could make up some of that ground by leveraging itself as a niche search portal, specializing in social search?
Gord Hotchkiss sat [...]