The Yahoo executive exodus continues. MySpace has snatches another high-level Yahoo sales maven “Valeh Vakili” as senior VP of sales strategy and operations. Valeh Vakili, director of U.S. sales operations for Yahoo, is exiting the company to take up a new position at News Corp.’s MySpace, as SVP of sales and strategy and operations. Sales […]

There is a continuum of competition of similarities taking place among some of the world’s largest technology companies as they scuttle to control the next wave of office software. IBM is getting deeper into the cloud, and its relentless march could make it difficult for any competitor to gain purchase, despite the newness of the […]

London — Software behemoth Microsoft Corp., last week said that it plans to open three “Search Technology Centers in Europe,” aimed at assisting its Live Search, as it steps up efforts to catch market leader Google Inc. and Yahoo! in the field of Internet searching, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said at the end of […]

New York — Ever striving, but still overshadowed by its bigger rivals, IAC Corp.’s Ask.com, the fourth-largest search engine, has a record of coming up with interesting innovations that are often imitated by others in the Internet search business. Ask.com plans to unveil a new version of its search engine on Monday with several enhancements […]

San Francisco — Google Inc., barely six years after it launched Google News, just last week revamped its Blog Search tool with an enhanced blog tracking service that helps people mine a growing mountain of online commentary for gems worth reading, following a format similar to sites like Techmeme and the NYT’s Blogrunner. Google Blog […]

San Francisco — Odd couples Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., the two largest search engine titans on the Internet have reportedly decided to opt-out of implementing a controversial search advertising partnership that would essentially devour part of Yahoo’s advertising business and create an online ad behemoth that critics say no rival could possibly compete against, […]

San Francisco — A group of eleven members of the Democratic congressional leaders from California have sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice expressing strong support of a controversial search marketing deal stating that “growth and innovation could be stifled” if it blocks the proposed cooperative advertising agreement between Yahoo to run ads […]

Microsoft has placed a grizzled long-time exec of its Internet wars, Yusuf Mehdi, back at the helm to take over a large section of Microsoft’s online services portfolio–including marketing, online audience business development and product management for MSN and the search properties, the company said Monday. His team will take charge to handle marketing, product […]

According to a recent report from Search Engine Roundtable which said that Yahoo Search is undergoing an algorithmic update, following noticeable fluctuations in search positions observed by a thread at WebmasterWorld. The last revamp by Yahoo Search occurred in early September. This is interesting, because we normally do not have a Yahoo Search update until […]