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A couple of weeks ago, Yahoo! Search visited Tel Aviv, Israel as part of our international BOSS Hack Day series. Our goal with these Hack Days is to educate developers around the world on Yahoo! Search BOSS, share where the...

You may have heard about our experimental visual display of search results on Yahoo! India, called Glue(TM) Pages. Tonight we're launching a similar, but slightly different experience in the U.S. with Yahoo! Glue(TM) beta. This newest iteration is a standalone...

You puzzle lovers out there may remember that we launched a crossword puzzle game that combined the Search Assist feature to provide helpful hints from Yahoo! Search last Fall. After all, many of us aren't born with the natural "crossword...

Today we're pleased to announce the availability of the first of a series of new BOSS features called Key Terms. We began opening up our search infrastructure four months ago with Yahoo! Search BOSS. Since then, we've heard again and...

We just returned from two solid events on the BOSS Hack Day world tour. Last Monday's event in London drew a range of developers, including a few who were completely new to the platform along with a handful of experienced...

With over 180 million unique URLs tagged, Delicious is celebrating its five year anniversary. To date, 5.3 million users have turned to Delicious to enhance their social search experience. Not only is it a free and easy way for people...

Las Vegas is about to get even wilder next week for the annual Pubcon Vegas 2008 show. Search and search marketing professionals are heading out to the Las Vegas Convention Center in droves and Yahoo! Search will be a part...

We often talk about the growing number of interesting SearchMonkey applications that have been built by developers. Many of the applications live in the Yahoo! Search Gallery, but quite a few aren't accepted for various reasons. Today, we're introducing SearchMonkey...

Election Day is fast approaching and the presidential race has certainly been interesting. As the race heats up, we've been collecting and analyzing some fascinating data about how voters are using search during this election. While searches aren't votes, they...

The BOSS team recently participated in Open Hack 2008 to promote innovation and openness in search. Developers came out in full force to create hacks and mashups using Yahoo! Search BOSS. With the success of our event in Sunnyvale, we...

Last October we launched Search Assist, taking a significant step toward making searching smarter on Yahoo! Search. Over the past year we've made strides in improving our search assistance technology with one goal in mind: to intelligently guide users to...

Earlier this year, we launched Inquisitor 3 for Safari. Since then, users have been asking (demanding) that we make Inquisitor available on other browser platforms. This evening, we're doing just that with the launch of Inquisitor Firefox 2 and 3...

As we announced on October 14, Kallout, a contextual search product, won the BOSS Mashable Challenge. Part of the first prize for the Challenge was a guest post on Mashable, which was posted today. Kallout is a great example of...

A few weeks ago, the BOSS team invited a handful of the top academic minds in information retrieval to join us at our Sunnyvale campus for the BOSS Academic Research Day. In addition to the professors and grad students from...

Today, we're happy to announce that we're turning on Citysearch and Zagat SearchMonkey applications for all users. Together with the Yelp and Yahoo! Local Enhanced Results, as well as the Yahoo! Shortcut at the top of the search page, finding...

Google has come up with a great (in my opinion) service that is placing archived newspapers online and available. Google has teamed up with over 100 news sources around the world to improve on its existing agreement with the New York Times and the Washington post. The service is Google Archive Search and old news is [...]

Hard to believe isn’t it! Google as of this moment is now 10 years old! So how did they go from being a computer in a Lego block, to the worlds favourite Search Engine? In a word? Relevancy.. And here are another couple of words that made google famous.  Viral marketing. Google took over purely due to [...]

Google today launch another great tool for advertisers which will benefit the SEO and Web Marketing community. Google insights for Search is a system that allows you to research search on a geospatial and chronological basis. The system can provide heat maps on a geospatial basis that will help you to identify who in the world is searching [...]

This is the question that is asked time after time in forums across the world. Unfortunately it is a case of ‘when all else fails, read the user manual’. An old adage sure, but it is true. It is amazing how many people throw words into a list, write an advert, and set it running. This [...]

As anyone who has not been sleeping off the mother of all hangovers for the last week knows, Google are now showing Search Volumes in their keyword research tool. HURRAH! I hear all you posh types say, but here is the thing, Life is not that simple, many are now rushing out, grabbing numbers, and [...]

FINALLY, Google has seen the light, and moved to displaying search volumes on its keyword Research Tool. Gone are the days of guessing, now it is easy to know exactly what you are bidding on and this applies to Organic traffic as well! Well done Google

Back to the original purpose of this blog, to answer Questions.  and the question is ” how can Google identify bought links?” for obvious reasons the guy who asked the question didn’t want to be linked to (I wonder why) How can Google tell if a link is a vote or bought? The simple answer is they CAN’T. [...]