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Child Sex Chat Rooms Prompt Sponsors to Pull Yahoo Ads
A number of companies, including Pepsi, Countrywide Mortgage, Georgia-Pacific and State Farm Insurance, have pulled ads from Yahoo chat rooms following allegations that they were catering to predators and pedophiles.
Yahoo Hit With $3 Million Suit Over Nude Photos
Yahoo Inc. has been hit with a lawsuit by an Oregon woman who alleges the Internet site failed to remove nude pictures of her from the web. She claims a former boyfriend posted photos of her, as well as profiles that include an address and phone number, without her consent.
Mistrial Declared in Yahoo Search Patent Trial
Yahoo's claim to a patent that protects the business method behind paid search advertising has gone uncontested after a judge declared a mistrial in a federal patent infringement trial against search engine FindWhat.com.
Yahoo Sued Over Child Porn Distribution
One of Yahoo's web groups has landed the Internet portal in hot water after the parents of an underage boy filed a $10 million lawsuit against the company on May 9 alleging breach of duties concerning the actions of a man who formerly created and moderated the Candyman web group site.
Yahoo Beta Tests Personal Search Engine
Following the launch of Yahoo Search earlier this year, the web portal released the beta version of a new personal search engine that enables users to store search results and share those results with other users.
Yahoo Appeals Nazi Verdict
In a case that could determine whether foreign courts have legal jurisdiction over U.S.-based websites, Yahoo has appealed a French court's decision barring it from offering Nazi memorabilia for sale.
Yahoo to Branch Into Blogs, Offers API
Yahoo Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang announced Tuesday that the company will be opening a developer-focused resource that will allow developers access to a Yahoo search application program interface, which the company hopes will spur the creation of third-party web, image and video search applications built on top of its engine.
New Santy Variants Learn to Use Yahoo, AOL
The Santy Internet worm, which was discovered last week and used the Google search engine to find vulnerable websites, has evolved to spread via other search engines following Google’s crackdown on the worm’s distribution mechanism.
Yahoo Explores Video Search Engine Technology
In keeping with similar efforts underway by Google and Microsoft to capitalize on multimedia search engine technology, Yahoo launched a beta site for its new digital video search feature called Yahoo Search Video.
Yahoo Launches Mobile Search Interface
In yet another move to rattle the gilded cage of search king Google, Yahoo Inc. launched a mobile search interface just a month after Google launched a similar service. The announcement was released through the Yahoo Mobile division, which launched in 1999 in anticipation of a burgeoning mobile industry that has taken five years to manifest.
Yahoo Fingered for Unfair Business Practices
A lawsuit filed against web portal Yahoo Inc. for unfair business practices inched forward this week following a status hearing in L.A. Superior Court, the case's lead attorney David Weinman told XBiz.
Yahoo Sued for Message Board Harassment
A corporate attorney who was miffed when fellow Yahoo message board users made what he alleges were "defamatory attacks" has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against Yahoo Inc. challenging the web portal's business practices.
Yahoo Said It More Than Doubled Profit
More consumers are using the Internet and advertisers are rushing to market products to them. That is the indication Internet bellwethers are expected to report in yet another quarter of strong revenue and earnings growth. On Wednesday, Yahoo said net income more than doubled.
Yahoo Launches Yisou, Dumps Business Messenger
Following Google’s stepped-up entry into the Chinese-language market, Yahoo Inc. launched its own search portal on Monday. The new site, called Yisou — which translates into "No. 1 search" in English — follows Google's acquisition last week of a minority stake in Baidu.com Inc., China's biggest independent Internet search engine and one of Google's strongest rivals here.
Listings Trademark Case Fingers Yahoo, Overture
A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court alleges that the top search engines are using a company’s trademark as search terms to drive Internet traffic to third-party advertisers. The suit against Google Inc. and Overture Services Inc. by insurer Geico this month claims that the search-engines are infringing on its trademark and diluting its value.
WhenU Yanked From Yahoo and Google Indexes
Advertising network WhenU found itself on the wrong side of the two most powerful search engines Monday morning after Yahoo and Google decided to yank all WhenU search results from their combined indexes.
The Search Is On for Yahoo
The web portal names localized search engine technology as the future gold mine for the Internet.
Google and Yahoo Ban Gambling Ads
In what some industry analysts are saying could be a future trend among leading Internet companies, the world's biggest search engines, Google and Yahoo, have decided to stop featuring advertisements from online casinos.
Yahoo Paid Search Links
Yahoo has announced a new policy for indexing Web pages that will charge businesses to include more material currently unlisted in its online search engine.
Yahoo, Google Standoff
Only a week after Yahoo announced plans to get rid of Google as a search partner and establish itself as an independent search engine, the tables have turned for both Google and its rivals.