SiliconRepublic.com: Risky websites to be flagged in Yahoo! Search. From the news report: Websites that may harm a user’s computer just by visiting them will be omitted from Yahoo! search engine rankings, following a partnership between the search company and security firm McAfee. The new service, entitled SearchScan, also identifies sites that ...

Yahoo! Mindset was a great resource - it was the usual search engine, but with a slider option to allow users to re-rank results into either shopping or research relevance. It wasn't brilliant, but it was a great idea. And now it looks as though it's died a death. I found one recent reference in a blog to it, but nothing else. All the links ...

News from the BBC: Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo. They're offering £22.4bn in cash and shares (which values Yahoo at three times the size of M&S), and that's 62% over Yahoo's closing share price on Thursday. This isn't really that much of a surprise, since neither has been able to really compete against Google. Yahoo particularly has been ...

Delicious Integrated Into Yahoo Search Results. Well, according to TechCrunch they are. I say 'according to' because I can't see any sign of it when I do the same search (java). Yahoo have slid this in quietly and there's just a little Delicious square icon with 'x people bookmarked this page under <tags>'. Makes sense to me - we've already ...