Yahoo! News . New Yahoo!

Do you Yahoo? You may want to see what we’ve launched last night (click on the image below to try it out yourself). It’s come a long way since the first-ish pass.
I love that a search for “dreamlogic” brings up “wife+chris” on the first Search Assist drop-down panel. The subsequent panel (shown [...]

Ebert and Roeper, Now Without Thumbs

So, you’ve probably heard about Disney renegotiating Ebert’s contract pending his return to Ebert and Roeper, but you might not know about them removing the use of Ebert’s trademarked “Thumb” system. Basically Disney no longer wanted to pay Ebert for its use. You can read Ebert’s own statement about the issue here.
What I was suprised [...]

Yahoo! News . Customers happier with Yahoo! over Google

The Search Engine world is fickle with customer quality assurance and innovation at its pinnacle. Nothing beats being smack in the heart of innovation valley.. you can just feel the creative energy and smell the brains brewing! This proves that the world needs designers!
Is Google Inc. losing its edge?
The search engine [...]

Hero or Zero? Barry Bonds

Ironically, a New Yorker who was just in SF on a one-day layover wound up with Barry Bonds’ record-breaking homer baseball #756. Heckled for his Yankees jersey and hat, Matt Murphy held his own in the battle for the prized ball, which left him with ripped clothing and a couple of knocks to the [...]

MOVIE REVIEW [He-Said She-Said] . Sunshine

HE SAID
There haven’t been too many science fiction films focusing on the death of the sun. It’s a bit odd, given the sun is directly responsible for the abundance of life we enjoy on this planet. Really, the only film I am aware of to even remotely tackle this subject is Japan’s Sayonara Jupiter, though [...]

Yahoo! News . You Tube and Stock Quotes get bloated with Y! Expando

Now you can watch a full-sized You Tube video in the SRP (Search Results). Just click on the image in the search results and behold the magic of Expando:

EXPANDO YOU TUBE

EXPANDO STOCK QUOTE (awful timing now that the DOW plummeted.. again)

Yahoo! News . Yahoo SRP goes on a No Numbers Diet

This is the quickest and smallest “big cheese” search page on the web. On previous tests, I worked with the webdevs on a main sprite image (reducing image calls) and the team found a way to further reduce page weight by over 60%~!
I am very excited because we can hopefully achieve lightning [...]

Yahoo! News . Pièce de Assistance

Some new better browsing ideas that launched last night:

Travel Assist Module

Music Artist Assist Module

Search Assistance Layer

A few issues to be upset about

I don’t usually bring in political articles in an effort to keep the comment boards civil, but some of these issues in the past week or so have been pretty frustrating.
The Evil P2P Menace!
This CNET news article reports that Congress is now claiming P2P networks are a threat to national security. Why? Because a [...]

Yahoo! News . OMG! Yahoo! OMG!

Like totally like oh mah gaaaawwd.  It’s like Yahoo’s like latest entertainment site.  Dude it’s so key.  Check it out.  If you check it out, I’ll be your BFF 4ev.  If you don’t you’ll be like so lame I won’t even text you.
omg.yahoo.com

Culinary death threat love letters from China

Just counting down the time before China kills us, kills us ALL*! One way or another, it seems inevitable. And it seems so easy for them to do it too. Why?? Because we let them that’s why!! Greedy companies fail to investigate and inspect the Chinese companies they import from or else [...]

Yahoo! News . Be Better, Go Green, Win Cabs and Bulbs

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if zero emission vehicles were the norm? Well at least hybrids are gaining popularity, even though some owners are cited as “holier than thou” snobs.

Vancouver Canada’s Andrew Grant was the world’s first hybrid taxi driver back in 2000. Two ex-City lawyers recently started London-based Green Tomato Cars replete with [...]

Google News . New SRP on the rise

Not everyone will be able to see this new Google SRP (or Search Results Page aka: SERP/Search Engine Results Page), so I’ll just post it up here. It’s actually pretty fresh and I’m happy to see they’re venturing out of the “quicker is better” mentality and exploring a bit more, even though coworkers insist [...]

Yahoo! News . Kiss “the sky”, not “this guy”

According to wikipedia, a “mondegreen is the mishearing (usually accidental) of a phrase in such a way that it acquires a new meaning”, you know like “’scuse me while I kiss this guy” in lieu of “’scuse me while I kiss the sky” in Jimi Hendrix’s famous Purple Haze. There are abundant mondegreens at [...]

TECH TALK . Intel flashes the world

I guess that’s supposed to be a rather good thing, well better than their very literal multi-tasking dancy TV ads. Intel unleashed news that the major makeover for its Centrino Laptop platform is the company’s very first foray into flash memory chips. Flash chips you say? Yay I say. The new [...]

Bye Bye Blair

UK Prime Minister Tony Blair announced today that he will resign on June 27th. He is the only one in UK history besides Margaret Thatcher to last a full 10 years in office. Even though most of the country distrusts him (similar to our country’s leader’s falling popularity rating) he holds steadfast to [...]

TECH TALK . Hey I hacked your password

Hey, if your password is “password”, well then maybe you deserve to be hacked. That may be the mantra of deviants who have nothing better to do all day but try to topple other people’s accounts. Apparently, you don’t even have to set up a phishing site, just plug in any one of [...]

Yahoo! News . Don’t bet on Auctions

Next month, Yahoo! Auctions will join Yahoo! Photos in the site cemetery. Buried by the successful eBay, Auctions really didn’t have much of a chance at being a major player because at this point in time, no one does. eBay secures more than 94% of total online auctions with Amazon’s auctions at approximately [...]