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Yahoo to Reduce User Data Retention

InĀ its new privacy policy, Yahoo said that it will cut the amount of time it retains data about online user behaviour from thirteen months to 3 months. The company would remove parts of users’ IP addresses and change cookies and other data used in tracking personal preferences for 3 months, applying the policy to search [...]

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Yahoo Still On The Market

Yahoo Stock went up eight points today as reports from the Wall Street Journal indicated that Johnathan Miller, a former AOL Chief exec, is looking to put together a team of private investors interested in buying Yahoo.
Who is he? Johnathan Miller heads Velocity Interactive, which is a successful venture capital company. He is, as noted [...]

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Top Ten Searches Of 2008 Surprise

Say what you want about Britney Spears, but no one can dispute that people are interested in her. Not after the top Yahoo searches of 2008 were released, at least.
Yahoo has come out with their stats for the top ten most frequently searched terms of 2008, and number one, as she was in seven of [...]

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Microsoft Kumo On The Way?

Word around the blogosphere is that Microsoft is set to make some superficial changes to its web-search engine feature. Microsoft has bought the domain kumo.com, and it’s being reported that they’re keeping it in the same area as their Live search is held.
So what are they up to? Speculation over a rebrand is what seems [...]

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Yahoo And T-Mobile Agree To Mobile Search Deal

Yahoo and T-Mobile have announced a partnership deal that will have Yahoo search powering T-Mobile’s newly created web2go portal. This means that when a user goes to use their T-mobile web2go portal, Yahoo will be the default search engine built-in.
Also, Yahoo advertising will be featured on search-result pages, with both T-Mobile and Yahoo will sharing [...]

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