Yahoo to launch voice service

Budding online joint venture Yahoo7 is aiming at offering “Internet-based voice service” by next year, it is a part of a plan to overhaul bigger competitor ninemsn. Yahoo7 is already offering its users with instant messaging services – the ability to call other computer users.

“Most of the stuff that is needed to do it is here”, Yahoo7 chief executive Ian Smith told Media. “We require working out the timing and the approach we are going to take to market.

“It has to be carefully analyzed – after all, the fundamental raison d’etre of voice over IP is that there is very little money to be charged. It would probably be 2007 unless a few other things come down the pipe.”

Yahoo! announces the launch of Search Builder

Yahoo has recently announced their latest service named Yahoo! “Search Builder”. This is designed specially to enable the user to make their own customized search engines.

Yahoo! Search Builder has been developed to permit users to choose a set of trusted sites and create a customized search engine for themselves.

This is great and perfect tool for the people running multiple websites and desires to offer a single search tool for their visitors. And it is perfect for contextual linking for Bloggers as well.

New ‘neighborhood watch’ from Google search

Google is on its way to build a new “traffic cop” layer into the search engine, it is made to help the internet users evade websites containing spyware and malicious code. When a user click on a link from Google’s search results to a site that is called to contain malware, they would soon be routed to a page that reads: “Warning – the site you are about to visit may harm you computer!”.

All the sites which Google recognizes as harmful are based on the reports from the StopBadware coalition that was set up Harvard Law School’s Berkman Centre for Internet & Society and Oxford University’s Oxford Internet Institute, Google, Lenovo and Sun Microsystems also hold partnership in the scheme.

The StopBadware website said its proposal was incoming a “new phase” with Google introducing the warning system to its search engine. Although Google has already introduced some warnings for several malevolent websites, a number of sites lately identified by StopBadware did not yet trigger a warning from the search engine. Given the company itself has not yet issued a statement on the proposal, it is not yet clear when the function would be fully operational.

MSN Spaces struggles in beginning

First days of MSN’s improved Spaces blogging and social – networking service have been overwhelmed by troubles. The upgrade to Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces blogging and social-networking service has been a revise in what can go incorrect with a commencement.

According to the representative Spaces blog, the first 12 hours after the launch were overwhelmed by deprived presentation problems, counting matters connected to e-mail issues, statistics pages not functioning and emoticons from prior Spaces versions not functioning.

The blog entry went on to guarantee Spaces users that its team was on top of the problems and that feedback was asked.

Yippee for Yahoo’s redesigning!

Yahoo Canada’s recently re-planned home page is choc full of features probable to plea the clients – mainly younger users. This home page was planned as a part of “the most inclusive redesign in the company’s history till now” – suggesting that it is much better than face lift. It is designed in such a way that the user can access to everything: mail, instant messaging, music, maps, news, blogs and others. The job done by Yahoo.ca design team is pretty decent in job balancing contents and aesthetics.

SEO Questions responded by Matt Cutts on Google Video

Google’s Matt Cutts spent some few moments answering the SEO questions on Google Video. The videos have come out well. According to Matt Cutts this video was done by him on the weekend to give little more detail and shade to the people for trying something new, he also added instead of writing two sentences, it is easy and interesting to listen to a video. The videos came out a bit rough because edition was not done and was directly uploaded, added Matt Cutts.
This video was taken with help of his video camera.

Google Begins Open Source Hosting Center

Recently, google has proclaimed that it will add a new feature to its services, i.e. open source project hosting. The latest site goes up against the most admired and popular source project hosting sites, including SourceForge.net. The novel service offers software storeroom and debugging amenities. On July 31 Google proclaimed the launch of a developer’s site to host open source projects.

According to the reports, this service of google is not yet ready and it is on the process for production use. This offer will surely become a popular with developers because it integrates with Google Groups, Gmail, Google Talk and other services.