Google – great for finding Yahoo
Google gave journalists a demonstration of its new iPhone apps at Google HQ in London today (think Segways, free food, Pilates rooms and lots of people looking extremely pleased with themselves). One...
View ArticleYahoo SearchMonkey is simply bananas
Look, everyone who has ever read any of my PC Pro columns over the years will know that I am something of a Firefox Fanboy, just like anything that makes my web browsing more efficient and effective....
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Why Yahoo’s 2009 is looking a little limp
I remember a time when Yahoo was the king of search. If you wanted to find anything useful in the morass of the web, you turned to the friendly editors at the California-based firm and, likely as not,...
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The 2008 anti-awards
Welcome to Stuart Turton’s 2008 anti-awards. These are not voted for by the public, there’s no free booze, swanky trophy or glittering ceremony, and you better believe they’re biased. Here, in no...
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“Just Google me you dumb f**k!”
These are the words of genteel socialite Courtenay Semel, after a Vegas bouncer questioned her right to be entering Caesar’s Palace given that she had more chemicals in her than a Chinese medal winner....
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Bartz wasn’t fired because she’s a woman
When Carol Bartz was unceremoniously fired from Yahoo earlier this week, one thought popped into my head: please, don’t let people say it’s because she’s a woman. Thanks at least in part to the...
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500px – the site to finally topple Flickr
Yahoo hasn’t got much right over the past decade, but one of the best decisions it made was to buy the photo-sharing site Flickr. Alas, like many of the other once-excellent services in its portfolio,...
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Home working vs the office: the final word
MIT’s Bill Aulet kicked off his SXSW session – 1 Coffee Pot, Many Disciplines: Why Space Matters – with a simple question: who agrees with Marissa Mayer when she demands that all Yahoo staff must work...
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