Showing posts with label Yahoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yahoo. Show all posts

Friday, April 29, 2011

Yahoo sells Delicious to YouTube founders

Delicious ,The Popular Online Social Bookmarking  web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks Owned By Web Giant Yahoo Has Finally Found a Buyer Relieving The Doubts of Future of Delicious.
Delicious Lets the Users To Bookmark Sites,Tag And Flag Sites Which they Found Interesting Around The WEb .They Can Also Share The Bookmarks With other Delicious users.
Chad Hurley and Steve Chen,The Founders of of video-sharing site YouTube have bought The Bookmarking Site Which was Considered To be A Popular Application of Web2.0.
The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo in 2005 With $18 Million .By the end of 2008, the service claimed more than 5.3 million users and 180 million unique bookmarked URLs.Delicious.
Yahoo Failed To Bring Up the Delicious To Present Times Unlike The other Competitors.It Has A Serious Competition From Digg,Stumble Upon .
In December 2010, Delicious was put in the sunset list by Yahoo!, which included the products that the company wanted to kill.
A Good News For Delicious Present Users who Feared That The Product Would Be Shutdown . The Founders Of Youtube,the Megaminds Behind The Internet's Largest Online Video Platform Expressed Their Excitement And Promised That They plan to continue the service that users have come to know and love and make the site even easier and more fun to save, share and discover the web’s “tastiest” content.

They will use Delicious as a key part of their next net venture called "AVOS".
Delicious Will be Available in Current Form Until July 2011.Users Will be Allowed To be Login With Their Yahoo Account .It Will Be using Yahoo Login Until The Next Move Made by New Owners!!
Read more On Delicious Blog

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Yahoo debuts 'future of search'-Search Direct

Yahoo The Popoular Search Engine And Internet Portal Has Launched A Striking New Real Time Search Feature Which Lists The Instant Results in  a Drop down Box.
Yahoo Was Back In Searching Feature In Recent Times.Google Is Triumph In Search Field .Yahoo Hopes To Regain Its Reputation Once Again With This New Feature.
This New Feature called Search Direct ,Is Similar to The Instant Search Feature That Google Released Back In September 2010.Search Direct Combines Works In Exact Way Of Google's Search Except It shows Trending Instant search Queries In Blue Drop Down Box.
When You Type Something In Search Box Results On Search Direct Are Displayed in a Blue Box that Drops Down Which Contains a List of links.When A User Places The Cursor Onto Some Drop Down Result It shows the Preview Of theTrending Search Results.In Google Results Start Appear Automatically Eventually Making It Fast And Effective Search.

This Search Direct Is Released As Beta product And Currently Availabe At Search.yahoo.com
Try it Once .
Lets See How This New search Feature Affects The Google's Regin