SUNNYVALE, California (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said on Monday it has revamped its search to compete against Microsoft Corp’s Bing, even as it relies on the Redmond giant to power its queries.
The announcement of plans to put a new face on Yahoo Messenger and Mail and add functions to its search engine came after news that Google and Yahoo each lost a fraction of a point of U.S. search share to Microsoft last month [nN18441019].
“We are not a version of Bing,” Prabhakar Raghavan, a senior vice president of Yahoo, said to reporters at the company’s headquarters.
“We are Yahoo and that will continue…We collaborate on the back-end but we are competitors on the front-end,” he said,
At a press event held at their headquarters, the company gave more details of its complex relationship with Microsoft.
At the end of July, Microsoft and Yahoo signed a 10-year deal under which search on Yahoo’s websites will be generated by Microsoft’s new Bing search engine. The companies hope the deal will take effect early next year.
Microsoft will license Yahoo’s search technology, allowing it to integrate certain aspects of it into Bing. Microsoft’s advertising search product, AdCenter, will also replace Yahoo’s equivalent product, Panama.
SAN FRANCISCO -Microsoft Corp.’s souped-up Internet search engine gained a little more ground on industry leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. in July, according to data released late Monday.
Despite the progress, Microsoft’s search engine still remains a distant third in the United States — the main reason that the world’s largest software maker plans to team up with Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo next year.
By working together in online search, Microsoft and Yahoo are betting that they can pose a more serious threat to Google in the most lucrative part of the Internet advertising market.
Microsoft’s search engine — renamed Bing as part of a June overhaul — ended July with a 8.9 percent share in the United States, up from 8.4 percent in the previous month, according tocomScore Inc. Just before Bing’s debut, Microsoft’s search market share stood at 8 percent.
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Oh no, looks like Twitter has finally met its match with a DOS attack. Let’s be honest . . . once it is up it’s going to be about people griping about the site being down anyways.
NEW YORK — A hacker attack shut down Twitter today, and Facebook also said it was “looking into” possible site problems.
Twitter said in its status blog that it was “defending against a denial-of-service attack,” in which hackers command scores of computers to a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from getting through.
For users of the fast-growing messaging service, the outage means no tweeting about lunch plans, the weather — or the fact that Twitter is down.