Yahoo kicks off its new global advertising campaign on Monday and part of that campaign is a new television ad.
The new commercial will run on all major broadcast channels plus cable networks like AMC, ESPN, USA, Comedy Central and Bravo.
Advertising has done wonders for Bing, which has already made up significant ground in the market [...]

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Yahoo has managed to pull off a coup by purchasing the domain name OMG.com for just $80,000.  The company just made the purchase last week.
Sure, that may seem like a lot of money, but remember that, not too long ago, candy.com sold for $3 million and toys.com sold for $5.1 million.
This should be the perfect [...]

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One Boston mom was clearly shocked when she found her own baby for sale on Craigslist as part of what appears to be an international adoption scam.
Seven-month old Jacob Brennan was playing with his toys when his mother, Jenni, received a shocking e-mail message.
“Out of the blue some girl e-mailed us and said ‘I think [...]

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“It’s DAMN real!”

It’s finally happened.  The long-rumored search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo has come to fruition.
Under the terms of the new 10-year agreement, Bing will now power Yahoo search, essentially creating a Google competitor that just last month reached a combined 28.4 percent of the search market share, according to comScore. Microsoft will also [...]

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There are bad answers and then there are BAD answers…

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Bing may have done exactly what we predicted when we first wrote about it.  New figures from StatCounter would seem to indicate that it has actually passed Yahoo Search as the number two search engine in the country.
Their analysis from Thursday indicated Bing in the U.S. overtook Yahoo to take second place at 16.28 percent, [...]

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It’s nice to know that, all these many years later, after all the work that was done to counteract it, the “Google Bomb” known as the “Miserable Failure” is alive and well on Bing, thank you very much.
George Bush’s biography is currently number one in Bing.  Google eventually rectified the situation algorithically, but Microsoft still [...]

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Microsoft is going all out on their new advertising campaign for Bing.  But did you really expect to see ads for Bing on Google and Yahoo?
That’s exactly where they’re showing up.
Microsoft is said to be spending up to $100 million to advertise the Bing launch.  The search engine ads, though, seem to be going to [...]

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Yahoo has actually added something that I’m very excited about, for once.
Starting yesterday, when you search for your favorite sports team on Yahoo Search (professional or college), a new shortcut will appear with the real time score, the last game’s score, and the date and time of the next game.
You’ll also find quick links to [...]

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Here’s a marketing idea you don’t see every day. Yahoo has just launched a promotion where they are giving away free popcorn.
In order to qualify for the Yahoo free popcorn deal, you just need to provide your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address, then you’ll get a bag if free popcorn in the [...]

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