The service will shut down on December 31 -- just one of more than 60 products that the company has discontinued over the past two years. Richard Nieva was a senior reporter for CNET News, focusing on ...

Goodbye Yahoo Search, rest in peace. The partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo, announced Tuesday, will mark the end of Yahoo Search. Next year, when the deal is expected to be finalized, if you run ...

For some, it may seem like there has always been Google, and it’s always been the main way people have found things on the web. But before Google, there was the Yahoo Directory and its hand-compiled ...

Yahoo has announced that it will be closing down Yahoo Directory later this year. Yahoo's very first product, Directory served as a phone book for every website on the internet in the days before ...

Yahoo on Monday will phase in a new search site that plays up paid listings and simple, informative query results, but it has yet to capitalize on the assets of newly acquired Inktomi. The redesigned ...

Yahoo's second quarter results yielded information that may indicate that selling its search division to Microsoft wouldn't be such a bright idea. After perusing Yahoo's second quarter results and the ...

Yahoo today unveiled Yahoo Search Direct, a new feature similar to Google Instant that shows search results as you type. The benefit to you: Less typing, fewer clicks, and (hopefully) faster results.

The biggest story of the Microsoft (MSFT) - Yahoo (YHOO) search deal for newspaper companies: What the deal doesn't include. In a full-blown merger of the companies or even a broader partnership, the ...

Yahoo hopes its Build Your Own Search Service program has piqued the interest of academic researchers. Next stop: start-ups. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Yahoo Inc. and McAfee Inc. are joining to offer alerts about potentially dangerous Web sites alongside search results generated at Yahoo.com. With the new security feature — slated to take effect ...