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Yahoo Maps Menu Items
A clever idea on the part of Yahoo. In addition to searching for restaurants, you can search for specific items in restaurants when you’re doing a Yahoo search. So if you don’t want just seafood but...
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What’s Hot in Videos and Images? Yahoo Wants to Tell You
Very interesting! Oh, I’m not talking completely about Yahoo’s announcement from last week concerning the new popularity information available from Yahoo’s video and image search, I’m talking mostly...
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Yahoo Announces PlaceFinder
So nice to get some good news out of Yahoo for once. The continued disintegration of its directory is making me mighty depressed. Anyway, Yahoo announced yesterday the public release of Yahoo!...
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Yahoo Has Geographically-Sensitive Search Suggestions
Yahoo announced last week that its search suggestions will now be sensitive to where you are. Read the blog post for examples of why searching for santa in one place will get you different results from...
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Yahoo Launches Site for Midterm Elections
Yahoo has announced a new site to cover the November 2010 midterm elections in the United States. It’s called Ask America and is available right now at http://askamerica.yahoo.com. Once the Flash intro...
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Yahoo Adds Search Features
Ever since Yahoo hooked up with Bing I figured that was the end of Yahoo’s search enhancements and changes. I figured everything would be Bing Bing Bing. That appears not to be the case; late last week...
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Yahoo Clues Shows Demographics Behind Searches
In a move that makes Google Trends look like a sick chicken, Yahoo has announced Yahoo Clues, a tool that allows you to see the demographics behind Yahoo Searches, from gender to age group to location...
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Gardens, Yahoo, Facebook, Type-History, More: Morning Buzz, December 21, 2011
A database of public and private gardens around the world: http://gardengatewaysphototours.com/. Over 1800 listed. There’s a database of plant origins as well. Google has added to its personalized...
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Maps, Yahoo, Rhode Island, More: Morning Buzz, July 17, 2012
A huge map digitization project is nearly finished. “The United States Geological Survey has nearly completed its project to digitize over 200,000 topographical maps and create a free, searchable...
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Google, Yahoo, Creative Commons, Genealogy, More: Morning Buzz, July 31, 2012
Now available: a map of storm surge data for over 400 storms worldwide: “Needham scoured more than 67 sources to create a database of storm surge heights along the Gulf Coast from 1880 through 2011,...
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Yahoo, Twitter, OLPC, More: Wednesday Buzz, January 8, 2014
Yahoo has launched Yahoo Food and Yahoo Tech. “Like your favorite glossy magazine for the digital world, Yahoo Food and Yahoo Tech marry the elegant design and bold imagery of traditional magazines...
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Norway, IFTTT, White House, More: Friday Afternoon Buzz, January 17, 2014
The National Library of Norway has put over 135,000 in-copyright books online for free — and the authors get paid and everything! Georgia Tech researchers have analyzed over 45,000 projects on...
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Yahoo, AOL, More: Skinny Tuesday Buzz, April 22, 2014
Another good one from Social Media Examiner: How to use Twitter hashtags as a prospecting tool. Yahoo continues to slip on its search share. “It would appear that Yahoo is continuing its long, slow,...
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Yahoo, Space War!, Font Town, More: Tuesday Morning Buzz, April 29, 2014
Sunday it was a zero-day Internet Explorer vulnerability, today it’s a zero-day Flash vulnerability. It has already been patched, so be sure to run your updates. Alicia Peaker has a brief blog post on...
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Yahoo, Twitter Bots, NASA, More: Morning Buzz, August 16th, 2014
Catching up… Yahoo has a new Finance app. A small selection of the University of Vermont’s College of Medicine yearbooks are now available online. The yearbooks are from 1952-1967. When does Amit...
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How Yahoo Stabbed Itself In the Heart in 2001
John Gruber at Daring Fireball has a few ideas why Yahoo has gone into decline. “I would argue that Yahoo lost its way early. Yahoo was an amazing, awesome resource when it first appeared, as a...
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Biodiversity, Thomas Hardy, Instagram, More: Wednesday Afternoon Buzz, May...
NEW RESOURCES ProQuest is going to create a digital archive of Harper’s Bazaar. A new tool lets you create photo timelines that vanish in a day. “To capture and share a photo, you swipe up on the...
View ArticleYour Options for Saving Yahoo Groups Content
Update November 2, 2019: /r/datahoarders has launched a dedicated thread for volunteers who want to save Yahoo Groups content:...
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Wikipedia Official Link Property Explorer (WOLPE): Get Your Web Directory On
Do you miss Yahoo and DMoz and all the other link directories that used to roam free across the vast plains of the Internet? I would put the serious decline as starting in 2011, when Google Directory...
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