Yahoo! Search Trends: Teens going online to prepare for college life
- Posted July 27th, 2011 at 1:00 pm by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: Fun, Search, Search Trends
Going off to college and living away from home for the first time can be exciting for some teens, while daunting for others. In both cases, it seems college-bound teens are turning online for answers on the next chapter of their life as college-related searches spike this month on Yahoo!. Fresh searches. While some freshmen [...]
Search Alliance Transitions in Six New Countries
- Posted July 22nd, 2011 at 7:17 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: Search Alliance
We like to keep you posted on the progress of our Search Alliance with Microsoft. Earlier this year, we posted news of Australia, Brazil and Mexico transitioning algorithmic results to Microsoft bringing us to a total of five countries. We’re excited to share some more news today as we move ahead with additional markets. In [...]
Yahoo! Search Trends: Harry Potter
- Posted July 14th, 2011 at 9:53 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: Fun, Search, Search Trends
As the culmination of Harry Potter’s decade long struggle with Lord Voldermat hits theaters this week, online searches for “the wizarding world of harry potter” are spiking 4,506% this month on Yahoo!. As part two of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” opens to global hysteria, people are heading online to prepare for the end [...]
Microsoft Webmaster Tools to support Yahoo! Site Explorer Community
- Posted July 8th, 2011 at 12:00 pm by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: Developer, News/Announcements, Search, Site Explorer
Starting last year we have been transitioning the backend for our organic search to the Microsoft search platform as part of the Yahoo! & Microsoft Search Alliance. The transition of algorithmic search results for Yahoo! Search result pages is complete for US, Canada, Australia, Brazil and Mexico. We plan to transition the rest of world markets [...]
Yahoo! Search is looking for Insiders
- Posted July 7th, 2011 at 2:40 pm by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: Search
From now through July 31st, Yahoo! is looking for a handful of social media mavens who eat, sleep, and breathe what’s trending across the Web. Does this sound like you? If so, check out the new contest on the Yahoo! Search Facebook page. After our Insiders are selected, they’ll jet off to NYC (with a [...]
