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Search Engines

Anyone looking for specific information on the Internet, is to use one of the many search engines. This catalog has been published on the pages and their contents, thus making possible a direct search. However, the number of pages in the Internet has become so great that none of the search engine is able to capture all sides.

Web crawlers are different, but constantly in the process of updating the page directory. The most popular search engines are Google and Yahoo. Microsoft recently launched a rival search engine with Bing to Google. In China, Baidu is the most popular. In order to obtain better positions within the search engine or different forms of search engine optimization (abbreviated SEO) is used. Search engine optimization is acting as part of SEM, which includes as a further measure search advertising. » Read more..

Yahoo takes advertising platform 5to1

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Yahoo takes advertising platform

Yahoo has signed a binding agreement to acquire the advertising platform signed 5to1 Holding. The purchase price agreed upon both parties to disclose. As the Wall Street Journal reported that Yahoo will pay $ 28,000,000 (19.6 million euros) in cash.

The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter. Then Yahoo will integrate into its 5t01 Ad Marketplaces Group.

5to1 an association of more than 20 “Premium” is-publishers who sell ads on a proprietary platform for high-quality brands. “The innovative platform, and the premium market place of 5to1 will help Yahoo to expand its position in online advertising,” said Wayne Powers, senior vice president at Yahoo. » Read more..

Yahoo!

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Yahoo was founded in 1995 by David Filo and Jerry Yang

History

Yahoo was founded in 1995 by David Filo and Jerry Yang. Yahoo started first with a web catalog, before its own search engine results have been delivered. The entry into the search engine was purchased by, for example from Inktomi. After a long time the Yahoo search engine results had taken over from other vendors (most recently by Google) is now generated its own results. The name Yahoo is taken from Gulliver’s Travels.

Yahoo International is currently number two in the search engines. Here, the global market share is much larger than the national who is a few percent. National battling Yahoo with MSN for second place.
Guidelines

The following pages / techniques are undesirable in Yahoo: » Read more..

Facebook and Twitter as an e-mail competition

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Also included in Yahoo Mail: the Messenger of the company

Social networks are the biggest enemy of the e-mail. The white and Yahoo. As announced some time the company has therefore incorporated Facebook and Twitter even better in the online mail program Yahoo Mail.
The changes are in the currently installed in the beta phase located e-mail program, which Yahoo is testing for seven months. The switch to the new version is to take place in the coming months.

Users of Yahoo can then their Facebook and Twitter accounts from the Yahoo mail program to keep you informed. Also, chats with friends who are logged into Facebook should be possible without leaving the mail program. The new Yahoo Mail will also be much faster and attachments can send up to 100 megabytes. » Read more..