For a long time now Yahoo has been offering the best search API for anyone to use to build their own search engine (like XavierSeek.com) or any other online application using search results. Now they've also made it possible for you to earn money using sponsored search results. Continue Reading
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Today is the last day of the history of Geocities since Yahoo has decided to close down the Geocities hosting. Continue Reading
Posted in Ecommerce, Miscellaneous, The World According to Xavier, Web Hosting
Cyber criminals exploiting a several year old vulnerability in Yahoo's mail network that allows for unlimited attempts to guess passwords. The result could be that your Yahoo Mail account could get hacked Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, The World According to Xavier
Would you like to have a new design for your company that's SEO optimized? In that case you should check out Arizona web design from PrimeView. PrimeView is a company with 14 years of experience of building compelling and innovative web sites that will convert your visitors into profitable customers. To do this they use [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Ecommerce, Reviews, Search Engines & Directories
It looks like Yahoo! and Microsoft finally signed their long-awaited search deal, but is the agreement as good as the companies claim? Continue Reading
Posted in Search Engines & Directories, The World According to Xavier
Yahoo is testing a new way to display search engine results to the users, something completely different then the usual "10 blue links" way. Instead of just displaying the top 10 search results for a search, that's the usual way today, Yahoo will try to find out the "intent" of the users search, and then [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Search Engines & Directories, Social Media
Sometime ago Psion announced that they own the right to the trademark "netbook" since 1996 and they demanded all manufacturers of the increasingly popular mini-notebooks to stop marketing their mini-notebooks as "netbooks". The background to all this is that Psion had a product several years ago called Netbook and they even registered the term "netbook" [...] Continue Reading
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When Steve Ballmer spoke at CES he mentioned Windows in three types of devices: computers, TV and mobile devices. We've seen the first one since the 80's so that's no surprise and the other two are just a natural step. We've already seen services offering movies on your computer (like Swedish HomeTV.se), so why not [...] Continue Reading
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On the 10th of March this year I wrote about OpenID, a service that lets you use the same account from one provider to login at other sites without registration . Now it turns out that both Google and Microsoft will join other companies like Yahoo, WordPress.com and AOL in supporting this fantastic login feature. [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Search Engines & Directories
I've just released an update for the WebPage Toolbar where the main new feature is the ability for the users to select default search engine in an options page and also to use local version of Google, Yahoo and Wikipedia. More local versions for other search engines will be added later. Check out the updated [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Search Engines & Directories, Xavier Media
Yesterday I wrote about the new search engine Cuil.com and now Yahoo (or at least Yahoo VP of Platforms, Sam Pullara) created a search engine that looks and feels like Cuil. Since Yuil is using the Yahoo API it got much better results then Cuil (and the funny part is that Cuil is said to [...] Continue Reading
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