Filter: News

• AOL's and Yahoo's spam filters: Whom do they serve?
  Monday 6 February 2006 – 09:32
  As the New York Times broke this morning, Yahoo and AOL are planning to impose a sort of "postage fee" on mail senders who seek to bypass the companies' spam filters. Senders who intend to reach mass audience can only send mail to AOL- or Yahoo-based addresses, says the Times , when they are willing to pay between 0.25¢ and 1¢ ($0.01) per message.
• Yahoo's launches response to Google's desktop search
  Wednesday 28 September 2005 – 04:30
  InternetNews.com is reporting this morning that Yahoo's desktop search product has emerged from beta, and is now available for general download: LiveWords lets users initiate a Web search from within a file or document on the desktop.
• Yahoo's first quarter profit doubles
  Wednesday 20 April 2005 – 03:47
  Yahoo's first-quarter profit doubled as the Internet powerhouse continued to ride a rising tide of online advertising.
• NCSA researchers refute Yahoo's claim of larger search index
  Tuesday 23 August 2005 – 12:27
  On August 8th, 2005, Tim Mayer of Yahoo! posted on the Yahoo! Search Blog that the Yahoo! index now provides access to over 20 billion items, which include 19.2 billion web documents, 1.6 billion images, and over 50 million audio and video files.