In 2008, Google said there's no such thing as complete privacy. You're being tracked all over the web by their AdSense ads, by sites that use Google Analytics and - probably the most important - their search engine. But Google Search isn't the only search engine that tracks your behavior.
After a quick visit to Yahoo's Blog, Yodel Anecdotal, you'll see that they are testing, testing... a new Yahoo.com. Millions of people visit the Yahoo Homepage every single day which means the staff given the job of redesigning the site had a pretty important job.
Back in February we told you about Yahoo Buzz, a service Yahoo pushed into beta that you could easily compare to Digg. Yahoo described it as a new way for people to tell everybody what they thought was cool and in the process, help make Yahoo.com even better. Yahoo Buzz tries to determine the best stories on the web based upon votes, emails and searches.
Yahoo has just launched Fire Eagle out of beta, a platform that makes it easy for people to share their location. It's not a social network, rather they make it possible for existing services including social networks, to incorporate your location.
Yahoo is taking advantage of SearchMonkey widgets to automatically provide more elaborate search results to their users.
Yahoo has decided that now is the perfect time to drop the beta tag from My Yahoo! Over the last year or so, users have had the option of using the new My Yahoo with a completely new look, feel, and features. It was still in the "beta" phase which meant that Yahoo was requesting feedback and tweaking things to make it just right.
A few weeks ago I received an email from the developer of a Windows application called gAttach, and it looked pretty cool. At the time, however, the program was new and I wanted to give it some time to mature before I gave it a whirl. Since then it has had a handful of updates, and it is on its way to becoming a handy little program.
In one of Bill Gates' last interviews before he left Microsoft at the end of June, he said that a deal between Microsoft and Yahoo wasn't likely to happen. He was speaking with Tom Brokaw of NBC news and was asked, "" Gates' response was, "." (Source)
One of the problems with using Flash on a website is that search engines like Google and Yahoo are unable to read the content of the files encoded in the Flash file format. This can keep people from using Flash on their sites for obvious reasons.
It's usually easy to tell which services Google is passionate about and which ones they most want to grow because they update and add new features to them pretty regularly. One service that has kinda been neglected over time is Google News, and people are starting to notice. A recent article over at The New York Times points out how slow Google is at updating the top news of the day.
