Yahoo Appoints DB Guru to Vie with Google

Yahoo has appointed a database guru to study links between computer and human-aided search. An ex-professor of computer sciences at UW-Madison called Raghu Ramakrishnan has been hired now in Yahoo Research assisting the company to define its social search plan. Yahoo peeps into social search as a main part of its plan against Google. Yahoo has invested profoundly in social search with the gaining of social bookmarking site del.icio.us and photo sharing site Flickr. Yahoo has also developed a service called Yahoo Answers which matches user questions with user answers.

Yahoo will guard their Users by using Norton products

Yahoo! the internet giant has now planned to proffer Norton Internet security software to its users to make their online practice more protected. Yahoo! will offer a package which will comprise security applications developed by Symantec. This application will save the users from cyber threats like spam, spy ware and identity theft.

Users can also avail Norton Antivirus and Norton Personal Firewall for more safety for their customers. This is an important deal for Yahoo!, because it wants to challenge Microsoft’s entry in to protection application market by becoming a part of the industry themselves.

Yahoo Auctions Makes a Twist in Taiwan

Usually, the transactions done in Taiwan are not charged. But now, there is a twist, Yahoo Taiwan Inc. plans to charge users for victorious deals on its sale or auction site. So as to carry on the improvement of service, abilities and competitiveness, we require spending much more finance and capital in the auction site. We believe users comprehend the necessity to initiate charging for this service,” this was the statement made by the company on its website, for users.

This decision of the company to charge users may be quite risky, but then this may also be the right time. Because Rival eBay Inc. has set up its mind to move away its Taiwan site as it has signed the joint venture with local Internet auction operator PCHome Online Inc. in addition to it, Yahoo Taiwan also said that it’ll charge only sellers and not the buyers.

MSN India assists ‘Pirates’

‘The Pirates of the Caribbean Special’ can be simply accessed by fans on MSN India for the picture memorabilia.

MSN India presents its fans a crowd of fascinating features based on the film. Fans can relate with the character Billy Bones, by adding him onto Windows Live Messenger and communicate with him while he unfurls the story in the form of an attractive game.

Fans can also win gratis movie tickets by entering into a competition featured on movie website, a series of choose the best answers will be put on.

MSN India has a crowd of other crucial thing for lovable admirers and users alike. They can download exhibit theme packs consisting of glitters based absolutely on the movie, pictures, backgrounds, soundtracks and also have contact to multimedia video games with the features from the movie.

Motorola Cell Phones will soon have Yahoo Web Services

Yahoo has decided to budge advance into the hands of mobile phone users, after signing a latest transaction with the world’s number two handset maker – Motorola.

According to the internet giant’s vice president of business development, Bruce Steward ‘Yahoo Go for Mobile’, which comprises of Yahoo email, search, and address book functions into a only wireless application, will soon be obtainable on a “broad range of (Motorola) phones”, This will be the second deal of Yahoo with the second foremost mobile phone company – Motorola. At the commencement of the year, it declared a contract to pre-install the Yahoo Go software on a number of Nokia handsets in a variety of markets around the world.

Opponents Squashed by Google in US search market

Google tests more reachable Web search for Unsighted

SAN FRANCISCO, July 20, Google inc. has started testing a latest version of its hunt system. According to its creator “it will make finding information on the Web easier for the sightless or visually weakened”.

The researcher of this project said, difficult graphical designs that crowd a lot of information onto large Web pages fare inadequately when a low vision user relies on screen enlargers that must increase small sections of a computer screen and make them colossal.

MSN will Donate as You Play

MSN Games is welcoming everyone to play Zuma, Luxor and few other web-games. More of all, it’s for a good cause, too. Microsoft will donate one dollar to help YWCA programs for women and their families from every MSN Games badge you earn by gathering points during playing game.

The featured games include Zuma (July) and Luxor (August), along with Diner Dash2. Microsoft will donate another dollar if you buy the complete game during the six-week campaign period.

The cash contributed will set out towards occupation and skills training, housing and shelter aid, domestic violence revival, childcare and leadership development.

Microsoft will change the structure of the way it reports

Microsoft made up a plan of changing the method of reporting financial results. The software giant will divide its results into five, rather than seven, groups. Alteration will include merging the Amusement via entertainment and mobile device units, as well as combining the unit that includes Office with the Microsoft.

Microsoft is also re-assigning the monetary results of its Exchange business, moving them from the Server and Tools unit to the Microsoft Business division, which encloses Office, Microsoft Business Solutions and other corporate software.

Its MSN unit will move to the Online Services Group, which will now comprise MSN and Windows Live.

Google begins UK video advertisements service

Google has brought in click-to-play video advertisements for UK advertisers.

Promoters can now run this new set-up on the Google content network worldwide, just by uploading their preferred clip of up to two minutes length. Ads are customer-initiated, which means advertisers should draw enhanced prospects.

The charges for the ads are set on a cost-per-notion or price-per-click basis. Video ads vie in the ad auction with other text, image and flash ads for placement on a site.

Google also revealed that, both Fox and Paramount Studios have trialed with these new services.