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Google’s products lack in Usability

Posted by Ravi on March 1st, 2007 filed in Ask, research, search engine wars, swicki, web 2.0 search engine, web usability, yahoo

Google’s stuff lacks the usability of Yahoo’s services, the “intimate connection in usability” Yahoo has with its users.
Comparing usage of Yahoo’s email and instant messaging versus those from Google. Yahoo has a big edge in email users, with 249 million. Gmail has picked up 60 million users.
On the Instant desktop messenger side, Yahoo’s 77.9 million [...]

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Yahoo search submit basic revamp

Posted by Ravi on February 27th, 2007 filed in SEO, news, research, search engine wars, search technology, yahoo

Search Submit Basic enables you to submit up to 5 URLs per domain for inclusion in non-sponsored search results on Yahoo!, and other portals such as AltaVista and AllTheWeb.
Your URLs are refreshed (re-crawled) every 7 business days to ensure that the most up-to-date content is available to search users.
When you initiate your Search Submit Basic [...]

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Yahoo, Google, Ask.com highlights keywords in Cache but not Live.com

Posted by Ravi on February 23rd, 2007 filed in Ask, Google, SEO, Search Engines, Uncategorized, keywords, research, search engine wars, search technology

You search any keyword in Yahoo,
You get the results, now go to cache link of the result and you will find the keyword getting highlighted on the page.
I ve seen it for the first time yesterday evening. Yahoo still not showing a cache date, but the words in the search term are now highlighted in [...]

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World’s First ” Web 2.0 Live Ask Engine” for Users – Jyve

Jyve, the world’s first “web 2.0 live ask engine,”(probably the first web2.0 search engine) is more targeted than Googling, and more interactive than Ask.com and more helpful than asking “guides” with no interest in a topic, Jyve creates live conversations between people with self-defined common interests for live help and technical peer support.
Jyve believes [...]

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Yahoo launches suggestion boards

Posted by Ravi on February 15th, 2007 filed in research, search engine wars, search technology, yahoo

Yahoo has come up with yet another new feature of suggestion boards to get feedback from the users and webmasters
Yahoo’s suggestion boards look similar to digg and
Spam-friendly, indeed and I can’t really see why this should be any different to the dozens of websites that are around already using similar concepts. It’s yahoo, though, and [...]

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