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Yahoo (YHOO), which competes with Google (GOOG) and AOL (AOL) in the search business, is seeing a relatively stable profit margin of 42% since 2008 by our estimates, and we expect the margin to rise slightly over the coming years as Yahoo benefits from its partnership with Microsoft (MSFT). In 2009, Yahoo and Microsoft signed a deal whereby Yahoo will not only use Microsoft's search technology on its websites but will also keep a majority of the ad revenues. Yahoo is also making efforts to control costs by cutting its workforce, which should improve profitability in the short term.

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Google Inc. (GOOG) won't be relinquishing its title of the largest search engine in the U.S. any time soon. Nielsen Media Research has indicated that Google captured 67.3% of the search market in December -- an increase from November's 65.4% share.

Meanwhile, Microsoft Corporation's (MSFT) Bing service dropped from November's 10.7% share to December's 9.9% share. In October and November, Bing was the talk of the town, as the replacement for Windows Live Search started off well and grew market share (although a distant third behind Yahoo. Is the bloom off the rose for Microsoft's Bing? Your call on that one.

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Google Raises Internet Search Market Share Again in December; Bing Drops Share originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) made the decision to use competitor Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Bing search technology soon to power the internet searches across its vast empire. That doesn't mean that Yahoo! still won't compete with Microsoft aggressively. After all, Yahoo!'s agreement with Microsoft is only to use the software giant's Bing search technology in the back end -- not in the customer's face.

Yahoo!'s Prabhakar Raghavan indicated that "It is our belief that the battle has moved beyond the back end ... what we do with it, how we paint it, how we render it, that's entirely up to us." This confuses the issue a bit but what he is saying is that Yahoo! will use Microsoft's technology, but will still heavily compete with the company in terms of customer-facing search market share. The thoughts of a Microsoft-Yahoo! full-frontal assault on Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) market-leading share won't really be positioned that way after all.

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Yahoo! still intends to compete with Microsoft on internet search originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Even though Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) had a not-so-hot latest quarter, the company still would like to partner with Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) for something. Although Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer no longer wants to acquire Yahoo!'s entire business, you can bet something is brewing between the two companies almost 18 months after a fierce and unsuccessful effort on Microsoft's part to acquire Yahoo!

What would Microsoft want? After all, it has just launched its Bing search (er, decision) engine to great fanfare a few months ago. Bing's market share grew admirable after its release, so would Microsoft want any part of Yahoo!'s search business? Hard to say.

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Yahoo!'s board must look forward to a search deal with Microsoft originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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When Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Bing "decision engine" took final form recently, many internet pundits didn't think it would pose a serious threat to Google, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) market-leading internet search positioning. Indeed, Bing hasn't really threatened Google in a little over a week since being officially launched.

What is has done is overtake Yahoo Inc.'s (NASDAQ: YHOO) position in second place behind Google -- all in less than seven days. How on earth did Microsoft's Bing shoot up so fast? It's brand new, has a huge amount of hype and online advertising and there is an initial euphoria goading the numbers so far. Will "decision search" customers who continue to use Bing long-term spell deeper trouble for Yahoo!, or just prove that initial-launch bumps can happen and then fade away?

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Microsoft's Bing overtakes Yahoo! in less than a month originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) won't be the default search toolbar on the Internet Explorer browser included on new Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and Acer computers soon, according to the company. With toolbars being a main way PC users use internet search, this could cost Yahoo! dearly.

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Yahoo! search market share falls due to browser toolbar partnerships originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Yahoo, Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) has crept up in the last five months insofar as internet search market share gains. Although the gains have been small from a percentage perspective, the fact that competitor Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has lost a half of a percentage point recently at least is giving Yahoo! some hope. Google still stands way above the competition when it comes to internet search market share at 63% compared to Yahoo!'s 21%.

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Yahoo! sees five straight months of internet search gains originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In a world with failing mortgages, terrorist attacks, the rise of the Chinese economy and greenhouse gases stewing inside the Earth's environment, it's comforting to hear that the top search term on global internet property Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) was -- wait for it -- Britney Spears.

From viewing the top-10 search terms from Yahoo!, one would think the brainless antics of every teenager on the planet was in control of every web browser in our world. While I'll reserve an opinion on Google, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) top search terms, my impression on Yahoo!'s web search audience is now pretty clear. Oddly, though, the demographic that would be searching for such mind-numbing terms like these are precisely the target many advertisers are looking for. Yay (yawn).

Here are the top-ten, in order: Britney Spears, WWE, Paris Hilton, Naruto (a Japanese manga series), Beyonce, Lindsay Lohan, RuneScape (an online game), Fantasy Football, Fergie and Jessica Alba. Sounds like a who's who of teenage stars and media smut. Nice.

Why do so many millions (or billions) of web surfers care about a has-been teenage diva, or a has been party trash girl? Beats me. But, it does prove one thing -- the world's web surfers can be obsessed by goofy media types and mass-manufactured entertainment personalities. This is kewl while I LOL.

Yahoo!'s most searched term: Britney Spears originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Yahoo! and Netscape, oh my! Both are diving head first into the concept of "social search," integrating the mysterious ranking systems of the search engine with the cool democratic nature of the social bookmarking site. As Time Warner was preparing to launch its beta version of the new Netscape, Yahoo! was talking about integrating del.icio.us and flickr, two very very grassroots-y and user-driven properties, with the unknowable algorithms behind its search engine.

Jeff Weiner of Yahoo! says his social search will "tap the untapped authority of users" while Jonathan Miller of Netscape says "We want to marry the great editorial skill of humans and what systems and software can do to create something that is different and better."

These ideas are good and pretty but I have to wonder: how is this any different from how Google has given more weight to blogs in its search engines? How is this different from giving weight to incoming links (which are the most democratic of all democracies)? Yahoo! thinks I am the untapped authority, but really, I'm quite respectably tapped with some 8000 visitors a day to my personal blog: all through the power of my content. And I'm just the tip of the iceberg, other bloggers who fit the category are cashing checks from Google every month.

It's all lovely, and fun, and a good idea. But social search is just a new way of creating a network effect, and the end result will be no different whether you're getting popular through votes or links from your ever-expanding group of friends.

Everybody altogether now: social search! originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 07:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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