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http://next.yahoo.com used to look like this few months back.

and this was explanation from yahoo about it

This is how it looks like now.

Googlified has gone to search engines to find the answers

on Google

{ I Love Google – 239,000,

I Love Yahoo – 22,100,

I Love MSN – 41,500 }

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Yahoo is testing its new home page. It looks clean,less daunting and uncluttered than previuos page.

• All the channels are listed on left.
• Yahoo Answers gets limelight just below the search box.
• There are only 2 adverts on the entire home page… which is so not yahoo!!

After google going beta with its Froogle Mobile on google lab. Its yahoo’s turn to do the matching game and launch yahoo mobile shopping search.

“On the heels of the release of Yahoo! Shopping APIs, we at Yahoo! Shopping have developed our own application based on those very web services. It’s a great example of the innovation that can happen when building on our open APIs.

Simply enter http://shop.yahoo.com into your WAP 2.0-enabled browser, search for a product, and start comparing. Check your phone’s user manual to see if it’s WAP 2.0-enabled.”

User does not have to enter a different address for mobile shopping search for WAP phones. If http://shop.yahoo.com in your web browser it goes to http://shopping.yahoo.com doing a redirect depeing upon the device that is being used, unlike google where you have to enter a different address http://wml.froogle.com/

Yahoo has a post on its blog about this mobile shopping search.

After flexing their muscles about claims of number of pages indexed by between yahoo and google, some evidance are begging to emerge that points out that google has increased the number of pages indeed.

Numbe of pages google display on its homepage “©2005 Google – Searching 8,168,684,336 web pages” is wrong and would be updated by google soon.

Danny Sullivan has published on searcheginewatch blog a way to sort of calculate numbe of pages indexed in google.

The way to calculate pages suggested by Danny is simple. After reading this blog I thought of trying it myself. Its a 2 step process.

• Search for a word that does not returns any pages in google. “CountAllThePagesInGoogle”.
• Then use google searches negative operator to search for all the pages that did not contain that term -”CountAllThePagesInGoogle”

This results in count of 9,570,000,000 pages.

I then tried the same approach with a word that is there in google search and results in pages.

• I used the and it resulted in 9,150,000,000 pages.
• I used -the and it resulted in 1,330,000,000 pages.

This adds up to 10,480,000,000 pages. So this technique seems to work… sort of. We have to wait till googles goes public with the number of pages it holds in its index.

This test does not work on yahoo and askjeeves it does seem to work in msn though and results in 5,322,521,243 pages which is close to msn’s claims.

Yahoo has added message boards where people can search for their missing ones. It also provides a search where people can search if anyone they are looking for has posted the message. It searches through variuos message boards and lists and displays results.

Some of the boards are named Missing, I’m Okay, Pets – Lost & Found, How to Help, Aftermath – Thinking of You