One of the world’s most visited webpage, Yahoo.com, has just had a major re-design (can be found at http://yahoo.com/preview).
The Yahoo! re-design is officially flagged as a “preview” (a.k.a. beta) and it isn’t yet the default yahoo.com homepage. There is no firm date for the go-live of the new Web 2.0 design.
Here is how the new [...]

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Following up on No “ALLAH” @ Yahoo!; The Register reports a small step in the direction of common sense:
Yahoo! has reversed its decision to stop people registering Yahoo! IDs which include the letters “allah”.
The Reg was contacted yesterday by a reader - Ed Callahan - who was having trouble registering his mum - Linda [...]

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Is Yahoo! Banning Allah?
Hello, my name is Kallahar (well, it’s an alias, but Kallahar really is a family name of an 1800’s Irish family (Ancestry of William Kallahar, born 1830). I recently tried to create a user on Yahoo with my name.
Unfortunately, Yahoo said it was unavailable.
“That’s odd” I thought, “maybe I created a user [...]

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As expected. Google can’t fail to copy Yahoo (same goes for Yahoo). Rumors are now that Google are going to buy a new project called Riya. Someone says this is highly rumored and unconfirmed news, but you can’t expect to see google running without something like Flickr which was bought earlier this year by Yahoo. [...]

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New service by Yahoo! Site Explorer allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search including your blog. View the most popular pages from your blog and other sites, dive into a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that site or any page (similar like if you type �link:www.sitename.com� [...]

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Yahoo added blogs to its news search engine Tuesday so that blog links now appear next to news stories from major media web sites, further institutionalizing what was once mainly a grassroots publishing phenomenon.

The main page of Yahoo News Search now displays results with mainstream news media results on the left while blogs are displayed [...]

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Yahoo! just released a podcast search engine.

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