Yahoo & Bing Went Down and are back again

Yahoo’s dedicated search site at search.yahoo.com remains offline at the moment, a couple hours after Bing suffered and recovered from a similar outage.

As I type this, Yahoo’s search service is loading intermittently — but even if the service does load, it can’t execute a search request. In other cases, visitors are getting the “Yahoo will be right back…” message seen above.

Yahoo gets its search results from Bing, which was also down at the same time earlier today, but has since come back online. According to some of the tweets from those who noticed, both Bing and Yahoo were down simultaneously starting around 2:30 pm ET.

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Top Search Engines and Directories

Search engines – webmasters and search engine optimization (SEO) professionals follow their guidelines for the highest possible rankings on them; paid search marketers pay to be featured on them; and users turn to them when they're searching for answers, information, or entertainment.

Search Engine Watch has been covering search engines since June 1997 and has watched the industry evolve to its current state. Over time, many search engines have come and gone, as users have spoken with their keyboards (and literally with their voices – thanks to voice search technology).


In recent years, search market share has remained mostly unchanged – for much of the world, it's Google followed by every other search engine (in the U.S. the "Big 5" search engines consist of Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask.com and AOL, which combine for hundreds of billions of searches every month). Meanwhile, many of the players have consolidated or have become footnotes in history.

Source url : http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2048976/Major-Search-Engines-and-Directories 

Microsoft-Yahoo Deal

As of Wednesday last week, the dance is over. Microsoft and Yahoo entered into a 10-year search-and-advertising agreement that effectively takes the latter out of the search business and finally makes Microsoft a search contender. What does this mean for the search field? And what does this mean for SEO?

To get the answer to these questions, we need to take a closer look at the deal itself. It seems as if it's being covered nearly everywhere, but Search Engine Land and SEOMoz provide especially good information on the details and tease out the significance. Much of my summary will be taken from these two sources.

Basically, the agreement grants Microsoft a 10-year license to Yahoo's core search technologies. The software giant can, if it chooses, integrate the venerable search engine's technologies into its own. Meanwhile, Yahoo has agreed to, in effect, get out of the search engine business. Once the deal is finalized (and it is subject to regulatory approval), every time you search on Yahoo, it will be Microsoft's search engine - now named Bing, and formerly known as Live and MSN - that actually delivers the results.

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Yahoo and Microsoft web search bonding

Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc. have ink a ten years business of search for Web to compete with best the leader of market Google Inc. but stopped before combining their companies of publicity of posting.The shares of Yahoo fell 10 percent while some investors were disappointed by the limited range of the business, which did not include will upfront payments for Yahoo because some had envisaged. The shares of Microsoft sharpened higher, whereas the shares of Google fell 1 percent.

Such which waited with interest to carry, the business were rather disappointing Marc today, says Pado, strategist of the market of the United States for the Fitzgerald cantor and Co. pact ten years, him 's not a bad thing. He 's not as good as which investors envisaged. The business culminates one prolonged, and sometimes controversial, dance between the two companies. They were inside on-and-with the loin-encore talks on an association of research since Yahoo pushed back last year Microsoft 's public offering of purchase $47.5 billion.

Under the announced business Wednesday, Microsoft 'questions of search for power of will of Search Engine of spoil heap of S about sites of Yahoo 'of S. personal Yahoo 'of sale of S will be responsible to sell the publicity of the best quality based on limits of research for the two companies.