Posts Tagged ‘Yahoo’

Gmail: Steaming forward on unlimited memory and Apps bundles!

Gmail nudged past AOL Email with 37 million unique visitors compared to 36.4 million visitors for AOL (comScore estimates). This puts Gmail in sight of the No 2 player, Windows Live Hotmail, which has 47 million unique visitors. Yahoo leads the field with an impresive 106 million monthly unique visitors.

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How Popular Website Designs Looked Like In Late 90’s

Google.com in 1998Microsoft.com in 1999Apple.com in 1999Yahoo.com in 1999Hotmail.com in 1999 Sony.com in 1997BBC.co.uk in 1998Amazon.com in 1999MSN.com in 1999Adobe.com in 1998 Altavista.com in 1999

Yahoo: The road forward?

A new era at Yahoo began the minute when Carol Bartz signed the agreement with Microsoft, giving the right to conduct searches on Yahoo’s huge network of Web sites to Microsoft in exchange for 88 percent of the revenue generated by Microsoft’s Bing. Having finally offloaded its search business to Microsoft; all Yahoo has to do is figure out what comes next.

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Towards energy saving searches: Yahoo!

Google and Yahoo! are the two most prolific search machines in the world. Whenever someone looks up at something online, each click of the mouse makes the backend data centre slightly busier. These data centres index and reference the internet and are the engines of internet.

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MyWeb Search, One Click Meta Search Engine

I stumbled upon this simple meta search engine ‘MyWebSearch‘, well, not quite a meta search engine but almost close to what I always wanted – one click search it all engine. I wanted to know more about this unique search engine and a search in Wikipedia says this: MyWay Searchbar, also known as MyWay Speedbar, MyWay Search Assistant, MyWebSearch or MyWeb Searchbar, is a spyware and search toolbar program that allows the user to query Google, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo!, and LookSmart search engines.

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NASA Says Climate Satellite Fails To Launch

From Yahoo News/Reuters:WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A mission carrying a climate satellite into orbit failed on Tuesday when the satellite was not able to separate from the rocket, NASA said.”The vehicle … landed just sort of Antarctica in the ocean,” John Brunschwyler of Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corp, which made the rocket told a news conference.The $278 million Orbiting Carbon Observatory was going to measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and to determine what happens to the climate-changing pollutant.Read more ….Update: Nasa’s first CO2 satellite crashes into ocean after launch failure — Times Online

Aging Mars Rover Gets A Power Boost

Mars rover SpiritFrom Yahoo News/Space:NASA’s aging Mars rover Spirit has a bit more power under its hood thanks to some Martian winds that cleaned dust from its vital solar panels.The handy cleaning occurred earlier this month and was discovered by engineers scanning data from Spirit’s power subsystem.”We will be able to use this energy to do significantly more driving,” said Colette Lohr, a rover mission manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif.

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New Atlas Shows Dying Languages Around The World

Click On The Image To Enlarge (Image from Thinking Shift)From Yahoo News/AP:PARIS – Only one native speaker of Livonian remains on Earth, in Latvia. The Alaskan language Eyak went extinct last year when its last surviving speaker passed away.Those are just two of the nearly 2,500 languages that UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, says are in danger of becoming extinct or have recently disappeared.

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