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Yahoo! has hit its "teenage years," according to a L.A. Times article (subscription required). But investors are bothered the "growing pains." Yahoo Chief Executive Terry Semel presided over the company's annual shareholder meeting here, emphasizing the positives but acknowledging missed...

All of the consolidation in the world of online advertising has gotten the attention of the Federal Trade Commission, which has announced an investigation of recent purchases by Microsoft and Yahoo.Read More...

Yahoo defect endangers users — do web sites care?  —  Summary:  — Critical cross-site scripting (XSS) defect in Yahoo services is discovered  — Proof of concept of exploit is included  — XSS bugs are on the rise because of web 2.0+  — The web industry is mostly negligent about dealing with XSS Source:   Net Cooties Author:   Rarely Greys Link:   http://netcooties.blogspot.com/2007/06/yahoo… Techmeme permalink

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The Federal Trade Commission will review three of the major internet ad acquisitions of late, according to a person with knowledge of the deals. The FTC will handle Microsoft's proposed $6 billion acquisition of aQuantive and Yahoo's $680 million purchase of the 80% of Right Media it didn't already own.

Rarely Greys writes "A major Yahoo XSS flaw makes it possible to take over any Yahoo user's account, including their mail, instant messaging, photos, etc. This is not a rare occurrence. So why aren't web sites doing more to protect their users? It's looking like most web developers don't even know or care about XSS."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Yahoo Photos will begin shutting down on September 20. What should you do if you have pictures there?

"It seems that they are ordering my inbound links by the perceived quality of the site."

Finally, someone really ‘gets‘ bloggers: Traffick reports that the New York Islanders think “the blogosphere can no longer be ignored,” and have created a work area for bloggers. No, not on their website: at the rink. The Globe and Mail reports (see the last section in the article, ‘Hockey blogging’) that they’ll have a workplace in Nassau Coliseum. The Islanders’ VP of Media Relations, Chris Botta, said, “We believe it is a significant new avenue to grow the popularity not just of the Islanders, but of the game of hockey.” If only all industries were so easily persuaded. (Incidentally, during the hockey season, the Islanders run two blogs on their website.) Loren Baker report...

Back in the beginning of May, Yahoo announced that they would be closing down Yahoo Photos, a process that would occur over several months. Those who have photos stored on Yahoo have been given a few different options as a replacement service, and yesterday marked the day that Yahoo made the tools available so that users can begin the process. Flickr is the first choice that they are giving users, seeing as they are owned by Yahoo. Afterall, they’re closing Yahoo Photos so that they can focus all of their attention and efforts on Flickr. Flickr isn’t for everybody though, so they have given a list of other alternatives.  All you have to do is log into your account to see the options available.  According...

Back in the beginning of May, Yahoo announced that they would be closing down Yahoo Photos, a process that would occur over several months. Those who have photos stored on Yahoo have been given a few different options as a replacement service, and yesterday marked the day that Yahoo made the tools available so that users can begin the process. Flickr is the first choice that they are giving users, seeing as they are owned by Yahoo. Afterall, they’re closing Yahoo Photos so that they can focus all of their attention and efforts on Flickr. Flickr isn’t for everybody though, so they have given a list of other alternatives.  All you have to do is log into your account to see the options available.  According...

The 33rd pulse is up. AdWords ads clarity on AdSense. Ask.com ads made for Google. Webmaster Central adds paid links report. Google Analytics goes out of beta. AdWords can help with your SEO strategy. Google Video vs. YouTube. Google quality score factors. Digg Digest is live. Yahoo sending out settlement payment. Mahalo launched greenhouse. Search Engine Roundtable Topics: Search Pulse 33: SMX Review, SEW 10, Ask.com UI, Google & Yahoo Update, Privacy Issues, Street Views and More New Google AdWords Placement Performance Reports Show Scary Clarity on AdSense Network Is Ask.com's "The Algorithm" Campaign Really Working? Google Webmaster Central Cleans Interface, Adds Paid Link Report & More Google Analytics Adds Featu...

<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>(We hope...)</p> <p>Activist Eric Jackson and other frustrated Yahoo shareholders won big at the Yahoo! Annual Meeting yesterday, even though the company's recommended slate of directors still passed.&nbsp; Persuading nearly a third of normally rubber-stamping shareholders to vote AGAINST management is a major success, and one can only hope that Terry got the message.&nbsp; </p> <p><a onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=96,height=125,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false" href="http://internetoutsider.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/...

Yahoo's site explorer tool is a great tool to check your links as well as competitor links. A WebmasterWorld notes something fairly clear to most users of the tool, that Yahoo! seems to order the links in order of some...

Yahoo’s planned shutdown of Yahoo Photos has begun. The Yahoo blog Yodel Anecdotal reports that they have started to close accounts and transition users over to Flickr. And as promised, users who don’t want to use Flickr are being given the option of moving to Shutterfly, Kodak Gallery, Snapfish or Photobucket instead. “No hard feelings,” says Yahoo, which is also offering users the option of downloading images or having them mailed on a CD. Users have until September 20 to make their final decision. Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0

Tomio Geron's article titled Yahoo, Newspapers Tout Alliance posted on redherring states: Yahoo's content and advertising alliance with newspapers has grown almost threefold in the program's first six months, the Internet portal said this week. The rapid growth suggests... Continue.

This coming Saturday (16th June) will be Yahoo! Hack Day here in London, and a few members of my buddy's company (the Nestoria team) will be on hand. But rather than just attending, they though it might be a bit of fun if they tried to subvert the event and turn it into their own hack contest. As such, they are delighted to present 'The quasi-official Nestoria Hack contest' to be held at Yahoo! Hack Day.

I just checked into the merriot hotel in Santa Clara which happens to be across from Yahoo.   I don’t have my address book with me but are there any people from yahoo personals that want to meet up? I am here doing a speaking gig tomorrow with james from hotornot and others.   I figure i’ll spend today checking out some of the wineries around here. http://www.churchillclub.org/eventDetail.jsp?EVT_ID=739 My email is in the about me section.

After months of avid data collection and analysis, we've finally released our comprehensive review of Panama. Yesterday, Reprise Media published, "Inside Yahoo Panama," an in-depth look at Yahoo's "new" advertising platform and its impact on marketers. The study analyzes various areas of Panama, including its handling of campaign management, user interface, systems integration and performance. Here are some of the key findings of our report: Panama Establishes Industry Standards: Many of the changes between systems move Yahoo's structure and tools much closer to existing platforms at Google and MSN.  Whether intentionally or not, Yahoo has created some defacto industry standards, such as the organization of ...

As we move further from the original announcement that Yahoo! built its own mapping back-end, more details pop up. First, some history: Yahoo! goes in-house (All Points Blog) Yahoo! and DeCarta Share their take on the change (Directions Magazine) Yahoo engages Cartifact for cartography (All Points Blog) Now, Webraska notes in a PR, its tech is in the mix. It "provided Yahoo! Maps with key components of the Webraska SmartZone Geospatial Platform (SGP4)."

Last Friday night, while at the movies, I happened to see a preview for the new Fantastic Four movie - Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. While marveling (no pun intended) at the special effects on the theater's recently installed digital movie screen, I, being the Internet geek that I am, thought about the Fantastic Four in terms of search engine optimization and the four major search engines: Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask. Since I enjoy finding similarities in things that one wouldn't necessarily expect, I figured that it might be fun to figure out which search engine would...

At the annual meeting, shareholders made their dissatisfaction known, with votes on directors and executive pay

About a third of stockholders voted against the re-election of one or more company directors, heeding the advice of advisory firms.

That's the word at Yahoo!'s annual shareholders meeting today, not that you'd expect the CEO to say anything else. After last month's standing-room-only annual meeting at Google, I was a little surprised more people didn't attend Yahoo's. After all, there...

Have you been keeping track of the online web-based gaming industry? Web-based gaming means there are no downloads, often the games are flash based, and can be a real time sink, any tower defense, bubble, or that addictive quadradius game. In particular, there are few platforms that are springing up that lets users create games, upload them and share with others. I saw a demo of Kongregate, I wrote up my review at while at Microsoft at Silicon Valley Launch. Yahoo Games This is the baseline of how we know web based gaming platforms, many of these games are yahoo created of by third parties. I remember playing chess on this when it first started to take wind. Kongregate If I had to invest my money in one company it would be this one. They...

"A very pregnant Pretty Woman", "Recovering Lindsay Works Out Her Issues", "Hot Hollywood Beach Bods" - these are the&nbsp;kind of juicy headlines that you are likely to find on most hollywood&nbsp;gossip and celebrity rumor blogs. <p>[No wonder, sites like <a href="http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/12/worlds-most-popular-blog-perez-hilton.html">Perez Hilton</a> or TMZ.com draw the <a title="Most Popular Blogs in Terms of Traffic" href="http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/01/most-popular-blogs-in-terms-of-traffic.html">maximum traffic</a>.]</p> <p>But here's a small difference though&nbsp;- these are titles from the front page of Yahoo! OMG, the new Hollywood-centric web portal from Yahoo! wi...

Yahoo recently rolled out Quality Based Pricing. Essentially, this says that not all clicks from the content network are created equal, and therefore, they advertisers should pay a different price based upon the quality of that click. What’s interesting is Yahoo is saying they are using conversion data as one of the data points (there are others) in determining this pricing. For those familiar with AdWords, it’s very similar to the AdWords Discounter. Yahoo blog announcement YSM FAQs on QBP ---Related Articles at eWhisper.net:Jenstar on Smart Pricing: Can one poor site affect an entire account?Truthful Auction Pricing of KeywordsSmart Pricing Info from Inside AdSenseYahoo Search Marketing’s New FeaturesHijacking Yahoo Lo...

I was in Seattle this past week, did I miss an announcement of a new Yahoo Search Result Page look? I’ve got a screenshot here. Sorry if you’ve already been seeing this and if this is old news. document.write("Add to Del.icio.us") | Digg it | Add to Slashdot | Add to Y!

I am toooo tired to process a reader question tonight, so I'll leave you with the latest eye-opener circulated by the rumor mill: Rumors Fly on Microsoft and Yahoo. A choice quote: "Microsoft officials said Friday that they would not comment on speculation about an acquisition of Yahoo. But a person briefed on the companies’ discussions said one option that had been considered was the linking of

We rolled out some changes to our index and ranking algorithm last night. So, as you know, throughout this process you may see some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages included in the index. This update should be complete very soon. Thanks for keeping the feedback coming. Priyank Garg Yahoo! Search

I missed this post last week on the Internet Marketing Monitor. It says: “Maybe an infusion of new thinking, new experiences, and fresh perspectives would be good for Yahoo.” Then later: “Maybe employees who weren’t yet ingrained with Yahoo’s past ways of doing things would be able to breathe new, renewed life into the one-time Internet king. “ Time will tell if they wisely chose this path.

Today <a href="http://www.ysmblog.com/blog/2007/06/04/a-new-pricing-model-rolls-out-today/">Yahoo! announced quality-based pricing</a> for clicks coming from distribution partners in the sponsored search and content match programs. Similar in intent and implementation to Google's "Smart Pricing," it will automatically discount a publisher's click revenue (and the amount the advertiser pays for that click) by "a certain percentage" based on traffic quality as measured by conversion rates and other factors.<br /><br />This systematizes the same process that has taken place with interactive ads for years: advertisers run tests, find out which sites convert well, and reprice their offers when they re-order, lowballing th...

In the beginning of May Yahoo introduced the robots nocontent tag. This allows you to block redundant, useless text from being indexed: Web pages often include headers, footers, navigational sections, repeated boilerplate text, copyright notices, ad sections, or dynamic content...

Those publishers who fled Google AdSense for the Yahoo Publisher Network because of revenues being affected by the impact of smart pricing on EPC will now have to content with YPN's own version of smart pricing, called Quality-Based Pricing. Essentially,...

Well, kinda. In this article, Yahoo suggest that “search is history”. “Yahoo!, one of the two names most synonymous with search on the internet, has surprised Silicon Valley by suggesting that the future of the web is not about search…The future of the web is about personalisation“ Google have obviously won the search engine war, helped [...]

Earlier today Yahoo Search Marketing announced they will now provide free, open access to the “Panama” search marketing application program interfaces (APIs) through the launch of the Commercial API Program. Commercial clients (big agencies) will also be offered optional fee-based, value-added services that come in three flavors: basic, advanced and elite. Yahoo’s been busy today, because this evening I got the heads up Y!SM is rolling out quality based pricing across it’s paid search and contextual advertising networks. Here’s the lowdown on quality based pricing from Yahoo: “Essentially, it assesses the quality of a publisher’s traffic based upon the publisher’s ability to deliver more interested, high-value potent...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- At a time when advertisers are questioning whether myriad new-media deals will be good for them and the FTC is investigating whether the Google-DoubleClick deal will bring together too much online ad power under one roof, Yahoo is taking another route, touting openness as an increasingly important part of its online-advertising strategy.

It looks like there's been an update to Yahoo Site Explorer links today, I've noticed a large increase in inbound links for a number of different sites.<br /><br />I first found that seoptimise.com had increased to <a href="https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&p=seoptimise.com&amp;bwm=i&bwmf=s&amp;bwmo=d&searchbwm=Explore+URL">12,779</a> from around 10,000 which is great! :) But I'm not the only one, last week I <a href="http://blog.seoptimise.com/2007/05/are-digg-best-linkbaiters-of-all-time.html">noted down</a> the total number of links for Digg, SEOmoz, Pronet Advertising and Tropical SEO and they have all received substantal increases too, maybe this is because the...

Yahoo announced they are updating the Yahoo Search index. The update started last night (May 22nd) and you can expect minor changes to continue thru Friday (May 25th).You can find a few more details and forum conversation on the changes here.

This (if it's true) makes alot of sense. All of Redmond's previous efforts at search have been near- or total failures... I shudder to think about what the culture clash might feel like for those people whose business units collide if this acquisition actually goes thru. Off the cuff, I think one big huge winner coming out of such a monster mashup would be Silverlight... I'll explain this hunch in more detail if anybody cares to comment with a request for such prattlings.  

Yahoo will close its online auction service for North America next month, signaling the Internet powerhouse's intention to focus on more profitable endeavors as it tries to snap out of a financial malaise. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company's auctions in the United States and Canada will end June 16, although some tools will remain accessible until Oct. 29. The closure won't affect Yahoo's auction services in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. Yahoo is retreating from North America's auction market nearly nine years after launching the service. <br /><br />The retrenchment coincides with Yahoo's plans to phase out its original photo service this summer in favor of a more recent offering, called Flickr, that provides more sophis...