Yahoo: We've Got a Left-Hand Navigation Bar Too
It seems like Yahoo is reminding people that it is still a search company a lot lately. In what I'm guessing is a response to Google launching its new search features, Yahoo has once again reminded us of its own features.
"As you know, Search innovation continues to be a top priority at Yahoo! – that's why we have been working hard behind the scenes to continuously evolve the search experience for our users," Meagan Busath, Yahoo's Director of Global Product Communications tells WebProNews.
"When we launched our New Yahoo! Search back in September 2009, we introduced a number of handy tools and a new interface that helps people find and explore what matters to them most through sites they know and love," she says. "We've been steadily adding more filtering options and relevant search suggestions to our left-hand navigation bar since then, and have seen engagement and click-throughs for those features double over the past seven months."
Features she refers to include:
· Offering related suggestions modules, featuring thumbnail images for/> [...]
Thu May 06, 2010 06:25 am
Google Maps Updates Borders, Already in Disputed Waters
Any way you slice them, borders can be a touchy subject. They're disputed and fought over, with one country claiming one border and a neighboring country claiming another, putting cartographers in a tricky position - where to draw the line. Today, Google announced on its Lat Long blog that it had drawn those lines a little more clearly for more than 60 countries and regions, with the changes already live on Google Maps and coming shortly to Google Earth.
Some of the changes simply better follow geographic features, such as rivers or mountain ridges, while others attempt to portray geopolitical disputes, a feat that the company acknowledges can be a complex process and, already, is running into complaints about.
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Tech blog Pluggd.in is already calling Google out for misrepresenting some geo-political borders, an issue for which it says Google PR already apologized before. The blog accuses Google of showing different maps to different countries, with Google Maps India showing a different border than Google Maps China.
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Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:05 am
Wall Street Journal Launches Pro Edition For Consumers
Dow Jones & Company said today it has launched The Wall Street Journal Professional Edition for consumers.
The Wall Street Journal Professional Edition is available to consumers for $49 per month. Current WSJ.com subscribers can access the offering for a discounted rate. In October 2009, Dow Jones launched the professional edition, aimed at offering businesses more in-depth information while boosting its revenue via its subscription service.
Features of The Wall Street Journal Professional Edition include allowing users to personalize the service to match their needs. Wall Street Journal editors will monitor and select top news and trends across key industries including pharmaceuticals, healthcare, energy, media & marketing, finance and technology. Users can customize news alerts and company profiles for industries and topics that are most relevant to them.
The Wall Street Journal Professional Edition offers access to news from Dow Jones' 2,000 journalists, as well as the ability to search more than 17,000 global business news sources, some of which are not available free online.
"The Wall Street Journal Professional Edition leverages two of our leading products to create an innovative tool to serve professionals across multiple industries - a service Dow Jones is uniquely positioned to provide," said Todd Larsen, president, Dow Jones & Company.
"The competitive advantage offered by being able to quickly and thoroughly access and anal/> [...]
Thu Apr 08, 2010 10:25 am
National 2010 Doodle 4 Google Winner Announced
Tomorrow, another special doodle will grace Google's homepage, and if you like it, compliments should be directed at third grader Makenzie Melton, not a team of professional designers. Melton has been declared the national winner of this year's Doodle 4 Google competition.
The competition drew over 33,000 submissions, so Melton's achievement is a rather big deal. Google will give her a netbook and a $15,000 college scholarship by way of congratulations, and you can see her doodle (called "Rainforest Habitat") for yourself a little early below.
This competition was designed to be a positive experience for a number of children, and not just Melton, though. In an email to WebProNews, a Google representative explained that 40 regional finalists got to attend an awards ceremony where "[t]he students heard from some of this year's expert jurors who are well-known illustrators, cartoonists, and animators from organizations such as Disney, The Sesame Street Workshop, Charles Schulz/The Peanuts Gang, and Barbie/Mattel."
The representative also wrote, "The students then visited the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City, where the 40 finalists' doodles will be showcased in a national exhibit which will run from May 27 to August 15, 2010."
Finally, Google intends to give Melton's school in El Dorado Springs, Missouri a $25,000 technology grant to cap off the competition.
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Wed May 26, 2010 14:20 pm
