Yahoo may be trying hard to stay away from Microsoft in the US market; however their Japanese unit has publicized the decision to embrace Silverlight for improvising the search practice. The new efficient web interface is predicted to be exposed in the upcoming weeks. Yahoo Japan is further planning to use Silverlight in more of their services.

Microsoft Silverlight technology is a very new competitor to Adobe Flash which allows better interactivity on websites. Madison Square Garden Interactive, Tencent, Abertis Telecom, Terra Networks Operations, SBSi, and MNet are some of the other companies that are making use of Silverlight extensively.

Microsoft Corp.’s effort to take over Yahoo Inc. has actually become so tortured it might in turn help Internet search and advertising giant Google Inc. to grow stronger, dejection Microsoft’s main reason for reward the deal in the first place.

“We find this to be a very advantageous situation for Google,” Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Derek Brown said Thursday. “The longer this gets dragged out, the better for Google.” Yahoo indicated it is stimulating for a long-drawn-out battle late Wednesday when a statement and a media leak offered a sight at its convoluted search for alternatives to Microsoft’s bid of more than $40 billion. “The more complicated a deal gets, the more difficult it becomes to satisfy all parties,” Brown said. “And the more complicated the (post-deal) integration gets, the more it favors Google.”

Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) recently announced that its photo-sharing site Flickr.com has introduced video sharing feature, through which expert members could now upload personal video clips and share them online. Flickr’s new video uploading quality would sustain up to 90 seconds of personal video recording recorded with any digital video device comprising still cameras, camcorders and camera phones. The company noted that video on Flickr would further be obtainable in eight languages incorporating English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and traditional Chinese.

Google had introduced the feature of “Save as PPT” on to its Google Docs. You are now free to save any of your Google Presentation to PowerPoint files. Andrew Chang, marketing manager with Google, Stated, “We believe you should be able to access your presentations however and whenever you want, in whatever format you need. In that vein, today we launched “Save as PPT” which allows you to save presentations as PowerPoint. We now support PDF, PPT, and basic text as export filetypes.”

On the other hand, you could as well share your presentations in many other ways: call collaborators and viewers within the Docs, publish your presentation (and share the exclusive URL to the presentation, or even drive in your presentation on a unique website or blog.”

Yahoo has rejected a three-week deadline offered by Microsoft to agree to a 44.6 billion dollar capture, as the fight between the two giant technologies titans heated up. Yahoo anyhow stated on Monday it was open to a sweet bid from the software giant or another bidder also.

“We continue to believe that your proposal is not in the best interests of Yahoo and our stockholders,” Yahoo’s board chairman Roy Bostock and chief executive Jerry Yang said in a letter to CEO of Microsoft Corporation Steve Ballmer. “We are open to all alternatives that maximize stockholder value. To be clear, this includes a transaction with Microsoft if it represents a price that fully recognizes the value of Yahoo on a standalone basis,” the Yahoo letter said.

The letter came in reply to a challenge issued by Microsoft on Saturday for the Internet giant to agree to its 44.6 billion dollar capture offer in three weeks or face a shareholder proxy fight. Analysts said the conflict of the technology giants appeared to be escalating.

Google has recently launched its new voice search service in Hyderabad by means of a toll free number (1-800-41-999-999). This is in market after six months its text search for mobile users through 54664. Hyderabad people seem to be excited about the services and already started using it.

The service was exposed silently over last weekend and the news moved out in blogs. A Digital news site, contentsutra.com was successful in getting a spokesperson response from Google. “Google has introduced a pilot for voice search in Hyderabad. Voice enables us to reach non-web users in local languages, while still ever aging our core strength in search. We are focusing on our users and innovating for the needs of the local market. This pilot will enable us to get real user feedback to improve the service before a full launch,” Google said.

Google may expose its new services called BigTable this week. BigTable is basically based on the Google File System (GFS) and intended for sharing across thousands of product servers, which collectively store petabytes of data. Services that depend on it comprise Google Search, Google Earth and Maps, Google Finance, Google Print, Orkut, YouTube, and Blogger.

Public stated that they expect BigTable to be straight competition for Amazon SimpleDB – and we need to agree. The only thing that comes under consideration is about the pricing strategy. What is your opinion? Would Google make BigTable for free, or would it be competitively priced with the Amazon equivalent?

Recently, a Pennsylvania married couple has filed a court case against the big G for displaying their house in Google Maps “Street View” feature. Aaron and Christie Boring, said that the service directed to their home being accessible for online viewing, thus frightening their own privacy – the very cause why they purchased their house.

BBC stated – Google had got in the driveway of the couple’s private land, so as to take pictures to be put on the website. “Anyone can get Google to remove the images if they have a good reason to back up their request,” said Larry Yu, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “We absolutely respect that people may not be comfortable with some of the imagery on the site. We actually make it pretty easy for people to submit a request to us to remove the imagery.”