Powerset, a natural language search engine was launched in May 2008 with the purpose of enhancing search and providing more relevant results to users by understanding the purpose behind a user’s typing a query. Powerset analyzes the entire search query including stop words like ‘by’, ‘for’, ‘and’, ‘in’, etc, unlike other major search engines, that [...]

As Yahoo prepares to get its act together after the failure of talks with Microsoft and the consequent search advertising partnership deal with rivals Google, comes another challenge – that of dealing with the departure of some of its top executives.
In the past week alone, Yahoo has lost some of its most valued and respected [...]

Later today, Yahoo will launch two new email address domains: ymail.com and rocketmail.com to its webmail service. This is due to the increasing difficulty that web users face in trying to find simple and straightforward usernames while registering for an email service ‘@yahoo.com’. Millions of new addresses will now be available to users, with the [...]

Close on the heels of Microsoft’s bid to take over search engine giant Yahoo, comes the news of a deal between Yahoo and Google. Nowhere along the lines of an attempted takeover, this search advertising partnership will see Yahoo buying some of Google’s online ads to display alongside its own on its search result pages [...]