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Yahoo Offers Handwritten Searching In Taiwan, Hong Kong

If you thought instant search suggestions and results was fun, get a load of this: At Yahoo Taiwan and Yahoo Hong Kong, searchers can handwrite their search queries and Yahoo will try to match the handwriting to letters, and then show suggested searches. It’s all described in this Yahoo blog post, complete with screenshots showing how *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***
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Yahoo Search Advertisers Can Now Begin To Migrate Accounts To Microsoft adCenter

Yahoo announced their Yahoo Search Marketing advertisers can now begin the transition process from Yahoo Search Marketing to Microsoft adCenter. This is the first step of the paid search transition from Yahoo Search ads to Microsoft Bing search ads. Last week, Yahoo’s organic transition to Microsoft Bing was complete. This week, Yahoo and Microsoft *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***
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So Sad: Yahoo Finally & Officially Gave Up On Search

I really don't know why I am so upset, but I am. Probably not as upset as all those Yahoo Search engineers who are out of a job or as upset as Jerry Yang but I am really upset. Yahoo has been testing letting Bing power their search results then ramped it up last week . Then yesterday, officially flipped the switch in the U.S. and Canada. Yahoo no longer powers the underlying organic search results on Yahoo Search, it is now Bing who powers it. Shashi Seth of Yahoo said , " I am proud to announce that the transition of organic search between Yahoo! and Microsoft is complete." Bing's Satya Nadella said , "Today I am happy to share that Bing is powering Yahoo!’s search results in the US and Canada." Yea, I am sure he is happy.
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Official: Yahoo’s Results Now Come From Bing

Yahoo just announced the transition from Yahoo Search powered results to Bing powered organic Yahoo search results is now complete. The search ads are still from Yahoo but the free, organic results are now powered by Bing in the U.S. and Canada. Shashi Seth, Senior Vice President of Yahoo! Search Products, said ” I *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***
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Yahoo Site Explorer Migrating Into Bing Webmaster Tools & More

As you know by now, Yahoo promised to complete the transition to being fully powered by Bing in the U.S. and Canada within a week of time. But what does that mean for the beloved Yahoo Site Explorer or BOSS or Search Monkey? Site Explorer will stick around until all of the migration is complete.
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Bing To Power Yahoo Within The Week

Yahoo announced that Bing will be powering Yahoo Search on the organic side later this week. Right now and for the past month, Yahoo has been testing Bing powered search results on Yahoo. Yahoo said, the full transition is happening later this week and they will let us know when it is complete. You will also know the transition is complete when you see the " Powered by Bing " logo on the bottom of the Yahoo Search results. This is only for the United States and Canada Yahoo Search results, the other results won't change over until 2012. This is also only for the organic side of things. Also, you should know the organic results between Yahoo and Bing, the ranking order, will be exactly the same when this transition is complete.
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Yahoo-Microsoft Organic Transition Happening, Site Explorer, Search Monkey Holding For Now

The Yahoo-Microsoft search transition is picking up momentum. Yahoo announced a number of things today relevant to the change over. They concern the organic search transition, SearchMonkey and Site Explorer. Yahoo announced that later this week the organic transition will commence for PC and mobile results in North America: This is an important step toward our *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***
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Yahoo News Testing Related Search Results On News Stories

Yahoo has shared a sneak preview of a new content module that some users will see below individual stories on Yahoo News. The module shows related Yahoo content — news articles, photos, and videos — and also includes a handful of related search query links. The module is currently only being shown to a “fraction” of *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***
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Up To 25% Of Yahoo’s Search Results Now Powered By Bing

Right now, up to 25% of the Yahoo Search results are powered by Bing. Yahoo began testing Bing search results this month, currently there are live bucket tests underway on both the organic and paid side. Mark Morrissey, Senior Vice President of Product Management at Yahoo, told me that while only 3.5% of *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***
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