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Yahoo! Web Hosting

Amirmullick3 — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:30:57 GMT

Hi,

I've recently heard of the Yahoo! Web Hosting. How many people actually use this Hosting? I don't know how popular it is or how good it is.

It would be interesting to see your thoughts on it.

Can I use it for proxies, forums, warez, or other things? Any info would be nice please.

Thanks,

Yahoo! Answers Account Deleted!

Amirmullick3 — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:27:15 GMT

My Yahoo answers account got deleted. That’s ridiculous! Some of my answers even got the best answer rating. The traffic from Yahoo was OK not as much as others who are very successful with Yahoo Answers! I sent an email to Yahoo answers explaining this but did not get a response.

I guess I just use a different email address to create a new Yahoo Answers account.

What would you do if this happened to you??

The New Yahoo!

Amirmullick3 — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:31:07 GMT

I just got an email from Yahoo, with the following subject line:

"Still Googling? The new Yahoo! Search is sure to impress"

You can try it out at:
http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/accolades.html

If this brings web surfers away from Google, I certainly hope there won't be a Yahoo SLAP! :D

Microsoft + Yahoo! Scares Google

Amirmullick3 — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:29:49 GMT

Microsoft owns the computer and the Web browser. Buying Yahoo, world-class brand with key Internet technologies, will create new business opportunities in emerging markets
Microsoft to offer Yahoo has surprised some, but it makes sense when the history of these companies and their respective technologies are considered. The important question is the strategy that the merged company will take in order to compete with Google?

Microsoft's strategy to compete with Google
Google dominates the search market in the United States and Europe. Microsoft's post-merger strategy would be to allow Google to be the leading Internet search engine in these territories, preferring to fetch the web page contextual advertising, display advertising and research on emerging markets. Microsoft's strategy could be to allow Google to direct users to a Web site, but Microsoft would take the recipe when the user clicks on ads on the Web page.

Microsoft could increase their presence in this market by providing the website owner a greater portion of any income earned by a click-throughs, contextualizing ads on the page with greater accuracy and providing a better experience advertiser. Research in emerging markets such as India, China, South America and Africa is where the turnover in the medium and long term must be earned. The income earned here will allow Microsoft to compete in research and more established territories.

Google vs. Microsoft's vision of computers
Google want a future that is based on the web, where all users of services (such as e-mail, office applications and social interaction) are based on servers hosted by Google. If this vision a reality, the operating system and desktop-based software becomes much less relevant. Microsoft derives most of its revenues from the sale of operating systems, desktop-based software and services thereunder, Microsoft is rightly concerned about the new web-based department is taking.

Microsoft original internet strategy based around MSN did not work as Internet users do not want to use a network exclusively, rather they want to consume services and they need a search engine to find them. Google would like to see a future where the computer becomes only four things: a screen, keyboard, mouse and a Web browser.

Microsoft and Yahoo will benefit advertisers and Web users
Microsoft buys Yahoo Yahoo to use technology online advertising and other Internet technologies. The company is able to compete seriously with Google, growing competition in the market, which should bring down prices for online advertising and improving the customer experience and the user. The vast majority of Google's net revenue is derived from online advertising.

An entry by a combination of Microsoft and Yahoo in this market Google could hit hard. Google, net income in 2007 was $ 4.20bn. Microsoft has $ 14.06bn. Although Google is very powerful in online advertising and is a well-known supplier of certain online services (youtube and GMail), the scope Google is currently limited to the Internet. A combined Microsoft and Yahoo would be a second player in online advertising, as well as the dominant player on the desktop and in business.

Microsoft can then take advantage of their control of IE, the operating system and its software business to build a smarter combined office and computer online, an experience that will leave Google play catch up. And that's what frightens Google.

Yahoo's turn to radio Ad's

chris07 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:50:33 GMT

Is the number radio-listening population in the U.S. that significant for Yahoo to consider running (or airing) ads on radio programs to promote its search engine? Elinor Mills of News Blog is reporting that Yahoo has started running ads in the San Francisco Bay Area that runs something like this:

“Search engines like Google get you lost in all the links, but not Yahoo search.”

The Yahoo radio ads were also selling key points of its search engine such as drop-down menus and search assist. And you the ending statement of the radio ads is simply classic – “You won’t find that on your Google page.”

Raj Gossain, vice president of marketing for the Yahoo Search team said that Yahoo finds it difficult user habits and preference in making Google Search their default search engine. But they are confident that through information campaign running on radio programs, Yahoo might actually get some search engine converts in the long run.

The radio ads will “introduce Yahoo search to folks who perhaps haven’t tried us in awhile, We’ve got capabilities in our search experience that the competition doesn’t have, said Gossain.
Ok, I stop from giggling now. Really? The Yahoo Search Team actually thinks that those radio ads will make some loyal users of Google to start using Yahoo Search? Well, good if it does. But it does not, I think the money spent on those radio ads could have been used for other better purposes.

But still, there’s nothing wrong with trying something new. Let’s see in the results of the monthly search statistics in the coming months if Yahoo Search would register significant increase in usage.

Google Search Share Up, Yahoo and Microsoft Down

chris07 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:48:50 GMT

InGoogle continued to increase its share of the U.S. search market in February, widening the gap that Microsoft hopes to fill by buying Yahoo.

February, Google's share of core searches by U.S. Internet users rose to 59.2 percent, up from 58.5 percent in January, according to figures from market research company comScore.

During the same period, Yahoo's share slipped to 21.6 percent, from 22.2 percent a month earlier, while Microsoft's share slipped to 9.6 percent from 9.8 percent. AOL is clinging to a 4.9 percent share, while Ask saw its share rise slightly to 4.6 percent from 4.5 percent in January. Comscore excludes mapping, local directory and video sharing sites off the core domain from its search.

Worldwide, the number three search engine is China's Baidu.com, behind Google and Yahoo but ahead of Microsoft's MSN-Windows Live properties, according to comScore.

Microsoft's US$44.6 billion offer for Yahoo is not just about bolstering its share of the search market: Microsoft wants to strengthen its position against Google in a broader range of online services including advertising, not all of which is search-based.

The reach of the companies' advertising networks is far broader than the audience for their home pages. In February, 90 percent of U.S. Internet users saw a page served by advertising network Platform A, and 88 percent a page from advertising.com, both of which are operated by AOL, even though only 49 percent of surfers visited an AOL.com page, according to comScore.

Likewise, pages from Yahoo's advertising network were seen by 85 percent of U.S. surfers in February, while only 51 percent visited the Yahoo.com home page. Google's advertising network snared 79 percent of U.S. surfers, while Google's site was visited by 69 percent. Only 31 percent visited the MSN.com home page, with 56 percent visiting MSN or other Windows Live services, comScore said.

Have anybody tried Yahoo Directory submission?

webdigo — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:27:35 GMT

Yahoo directory is considered as an authoritative directory. Even Google encourages people submit to Yahoo directory. Have anybody tried Yahoo Directory submission?

Why wont Yahoo! sell to Microsoft?

Amirmullick3 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:09:21 GMT

Any guesses on why Yahoo! isnt selling itself to Microsoft already? I mean, its ridiculous, do they think they're the best or something. Im confused though, I probably wouldnt sell my site if it was that big either....:hehe:

Should Yahoo and AOL Merge?

webdigo — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:36:43 GMT

Will Yahoo merge with AOL just to thwart Microsoft? It's something everyone in the valley is talking about, that's for sure.
And it is an interesting idea since AOL does best what Yahoo wants to do: become a big-time content player so it can sell more advertising.

It's even possible that Google will encourage this sort of deal to foul up Microsoft , a company that Google is seeing as more and more of a threat.

Google is the only company outside of Time Warner with a piece of AOL. In late 2005 the company bought 5% of the company for $1 billion valuing AOL at $20 billion. Some thought that this was the foot in the door for Google to eventually take over the company, a division of Time-Warner.

Yahoo Number 1 on Alexa, Google Number 4

webdigo — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:29:08 GMT

Yahoo is Number one on Alexa Ranking, Google seem to be Number Four. Check out the ranks.

[url=http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=global&lang=none]http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=global&lang=none[/url]

Yahoo Buys More Time ; Microsoft-Yahoo saga

webdigo — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:31:46 GMT

The Microsoft-Yahoo saga commanded attention in the tech sector this week, with Yahoo Inc. extending a key deadline in its attempt to fend off a takeover by the world's largest software company.

On Wednesday, the search engine operator said March 14 is no longer the deadline for Microsoft Corp. to nominate a slate of candidates to replace Yahoo's board. Analysts widely expect Microsoft will launch a proxy battle that will end in a takeover.

Yahoo didn't set a new deadline for the nominations but will do so once it gives the date of its annual shareholders meeting, which could be held as late as July 12. After the meeting date is set, Microsoft will have up to 10 days to nominate directors.

New news on Microsoft buying Yahoo today(Off Yahoo News)

chris07 — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:02:49 GMT

Analysts say Microsoft will end up with a lot to "Yahoo!" about, but it might come at a greater cost and effort than the software giant had counted on.

Microsoft (NasdaqGS:MSFT - News) can use a proxy fight to replace Yahoo (NasdaqGS:YHOO - News) board members in an effort to push through its previously rejected bid to acquire the company, but analysts expect the two sides will eventually reach an agreement much sooner -- and on far friendlier terms.

"Microsoft appears to want this company very badly," said Mike Egan, senior partner specializing in mergers and acquisitions for King & Spalding, a law firm. "They will probably end up putting enough pressure on their board and raise their bid enough that they will end up making the transaction."

Proxy Threat

Microsoft's strategy shows the company is willing to do nearly anything to drive Yahoo to the negotiating table, he says.

Reports of Microsoft's intention to launch a proxy battle surfaced Tuesday, a little more than a week after Yahoo rejected the company's $44.6 billion acquisition bid. Microsoft's offer represented a 62% premium above Yahoo's share price on Feb. 1, when it announced the proposal.

The offer is now worth about $40 billion, based on Microsoft's current share price.

On Monday Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told a reporter the company has no plans to raise its bid.

But it's more likely that Microsoft's threat of a proxy battle and Yahoo's rejection of Microsoft's bid last week are merely corporate saber rattling, says Emery Trahan, professor of finance and insurance for Northeastern University.

"It's unlikely they would go to a proxy contest," he said. "Microsoft obviously would like to get Yahoo for the best price they can, and Yahoo may be posturing to get a higher price. So it's a situation of who blinks first."

Microsoft wants to acquire Yahoo to better compete with rival Google (NasdaqGS:GOOG - News), the Web's No. 1 Web search service. Google handles more than 50% of the Web searches in the U.S. It also leads in paid search, the fastest growing segment of the multibillion online ad market.

Microsoft and Yahoo operate competing search services that rank far behind Google.

Microsoft is also counting on Yahoo to help boost its online display ad business, the second fastest growing segment of the online ad market behind paid search.

Last year, Microsoft reported a loss of $745 million from its online operations on sales of $2.47 billion. Over the same period, Google's earnings totalled $4.2 billion on sales of $16.5 billion. Yahoo reported earnings of $660 million on sales of $6.96 billion.

Analysts say proxy fights are rare. Microsoft would have to notify Yahoo about three months ahead of its annual shareholder meeting that it intends to present a new group of candidates to serve as the new board of directors. All of Yahoo's current board members are up for re-election.

Yahoo's last annual shareholder meeting occurred in June. The company won't say when it will hold its next meeting.

Analysts say Microsoft is using the proxy fight to circumvent a poison pill, a strategy used by companies to prevent unwanted takeovers by flooding the market with additional shares to dilute the holdings of hostile acquirers.

Yahoo's poison-pill plan takes effect if an outsider buys 15% or more of Yahoo stock in a transaction not pre-approved by the company's board of directors.

So far, most Yahoo shareholders seem to welcome a merger with Microsoft. What's more, a Microsoft-backed board would almost certainly negate the poison pill, which makes it useless for Yahoo to resist, says Morton Pierce, chair of the mergers and acquisitions group for Dewey & LeBoeuf, a law firm.

"This is why the threat of the proxy is usually sufficient to get people to negotiate, because there is no reason (for Microsoft) to go through this process and lose," he said.

Microsoft could also have another motivation for launching a proxy battle. Last week Yahoo reportedly held talks with News Corp. (NYSE:NWS - News) about selling a 20% stake in Yahoo in exchange for social networking king MySpace.com and other News Corp.-owned properties.

Pushing For More

Yahoo is likely using the News Corp. talks to push Microsoft into making a higher bid, says James Owers, professor of corporate finance for the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University.

"They are either trying to get Microsoft to up the bid or have Yahoo shareholders see that they talked to News Corp. but they got a higher offer (from Microsoft)," he said.

It would be unusual for a company in Microsoft's position not to come back to the table with a sweeter offer, Egan says.

"It's typical that when a company first initiates a hostile action like this that they don't put their last dollar on the table; they hold back some value they are willing to offer up later," he said.

Reports that Yahoo adopted more generous severance packages for employees to protect them in the event of layoffs seem to suggest that a deal is in the works, says Owers.

"That is a classic signal that Yahoo believes it's going to go through," he said.

Yahoo's search engins

chris07 — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:44:03 GMT

Yahoo Buzz What's going on?

Yahoo Directory Yahoo as it used to be

Yahooligans For children

Yahoo Local Local information

Yahoo Mindset Emphasis research or shopping

Microsoft Offered $45 Billion to Buy Yahoo

Manik — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:55:24 GMT

Microsoft seems to be real desperate getting a hold on the search engine marketplace. With Google got more then 50% of the search engine traffic nothing seems to work for Microsoft other then buying brand name Yahoo. Together Microsoft search and Yahoo will make about 35% of the search engine traffic. I am sure that will give MS a lead over the battle with G.

Microsoft made the offer as both companies struggle to catch Google. Yahoo shares jump 45%. Deal may face protracted negotiations, antitrust scrutiny. With Google getting 50%, Yahoo 17%, MSN 13% (approximately) of all search engine traffic you can imagine how strong microsoft search will be. Chances are very high that Microsoft will dominate the search engine marketplace in very near future; if the deal actually happens;

Microsoft stunned investors and Internet users around the world this morning by making an unsolicited $44.6 billion bid to buy rival Yahoo (YHOO, news, msgs).