Yahoo Search Powered By Microsoft Bing

Microsoft’s Bing search engine results replacing the Yahoo search result pages and showing the words “powered by Bing” on Yahoo searchs. Do a search on Yahoo (Prepensys Technologies), and you’ll need to see the footer to figure out that the results are actually coming from Microsoft. The transition is ongoing, but for some Yahoo searches the words “powered by Bing” are now showing up at the bottom of the results page.

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz had said when the search partnership was announced more than a year ago that the Bing logo would not appear on Yahoo search results pages and that Yahoo’s ties to Bing would instead be called attention to via some text. Seeing the result in action, however, is still striking, especially when compared to how some other similar deals have played out. AOL, for instance, prominently includes the words “enhanced by Google” below the search box on its home page.

Yahoo, had started testing bringing Bing’s search results to its search pages. It would be “transitioning the back-end technology” for Yahoo Search in the U.S. and Canada to Microsoft this week. For now, only select searches are bringing up the text "powered by Bing".

Next up is the transition of Yahoo search ad accounts to Microsoft’s adCenter. Yahoo says it’s in the process of testing that with a “limited number of accounts.”

Source: Paidcontent.org

Christmas Logos from Google, Yahoo, Live, DogPile, Ask and Others

Merry Christmas! Below are some of the Christmas special logos from Google and other major Search Engines like Yahoo, Live, DogPile, Ask. Enjoy their difference from the original version and enjoy your Christmas.

Google:

Yahoo:

Live.com

DogPile:

Ask.com:

AOL.com:

 

Baidu:

 

 FriendFeed:

 

Quintura:

 

BruceClay:

Hitwise:

Marketing Pilgrim:

PPC Heros:

Cre8asite Forums:

Search Engine Roundtable:

Yahoo’s, Inquisitor Now Available For Firefox & Internet Explorer

Source: Search Engine Land

My favorite search browser plugin, Inquisitor, is now available for Firefox and Internet Explorer.

Inquisitor was Apple Safari’s only solid third-party search browser plugin back in the day. Yahoo acquired them back in May and then provided an upgrade in mid-August. Now, Yahoo has announced they have made this plugin available for Firefox and IE.

If you are running Firefox 2 or 3, you can download the addon over here. If you are running IE 7 or 8, you can download the plugin over here. I highly recommend you give it a try and check out some of the customizations I deployed on Inquisitor years ago.

Yahoo Launches Web Analytics Beta - web.analytics.yahoo.com

Yahoo has announced that they’ll begin to roll out Yahoo Web Analytics (beta) on a limited basis beginning this week. According to Jitendra Kavathekar, Yahoo’s Web Analytics VP, the service has already been made available to select Yahoo advertisers and third-party application developers.

The next “big deployment,” Kavathekar says, will be for Yahoo’s 13,000 e-commerce customers hosting under the Yahoo Small Business service. Beyond that, Yahoo Web Analytics will continue to roll out for the rest of this year and into 2009.

Yahoo’s analytics service is a result of the company’s purchase of IndexTools earlier this year. Shortly after the purchase, Yahoo’s Dennis Mortensen announced the company’s plans to make Yahoo Web Analytics free.

In its FAQ about the new analytics service, Yahoo suggests three reasons why its product is better than the competition:

1. Real-time Data: “While some analytics products provide data 24-48 hours after collection, Yahoo! Web Analytics reflects data within minutes of collection.”
2. Raw Data: “While some products store aggregated data, which restricts the usefulness of the data to pre-created or canned reports, Yahoo! Web Analytics stores data in non-aggregated raw form.”
3. Ease-of-Use and Flexibility

Yahoo offers a sign-up form for future updates on the Yahoo Web Analytics (beta) home page.

Source: Search Engine Land