AOL, Yahoo Plan Paid E-Mail Service at I got Spam?!

Antone Gonsalves: America Online Inc. and Yahoo Inc. on Monday said they planned to launch certified email services that would bypass spam filters and deliver messages directly to subscribers. http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=179100768original [...] Read More


Boycott Yahoo! Mail at I got Spam?!

Adrian Pritchett: A little while ago I wrote a message to a friend, and after I clicked to send I got a CAPTCHA screen that said I had to verify the code in a graphic to send the message. It explained it was a feature that fights spam. I am a paying customer who has given them my name, address, credit card number, and birthdate, yet they treat me like [...] Read More


Yahoo Sues Lottery Spammers at I got Spam?!

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Yong Hian Lim Yahoo has filed suit against a group of scammers. The spam mails claimed the recipent had won a lottery run by Yahoo. In reality there is no Yahoo sponsored lottery and anyone who tried to claim the bogus prize had their personal information stolen and was ripped off for hundreds of dollars in "processing fees". "The unauthorized use of Yahoo's trademarks is misleading, fraudulent, [...] Read More


Yahoo's Beginning... at The Search Engine Weblog

One of the most powerful search engines these days is Yahoo. And the story behind the search engine giant is worth reminiscing. In January of 1994, alumni at Stanford University, Jerry Yang and David Filo created Yahoo, which is originally called Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web. The said search engine was a directory that organized other web sites into a hierarchy. Then the history of Yahoo starts. Unlike other search [...] Read More


Yahoo, Print Media Boast Alliance at The Search Engine Weblog

Tomio Geron's article titled Yahoo, Newspapers Tout Alliance posted on redherring states: Yahoo's content and advertising alliance with newspapers has grown almost threefold in the program's first six months, the Internet portal said this week. The rapid growth suggests that Yahoo's newspaper partnership strategy could prove far more successful than more limited efforts by rival Google to sell print ads. Yahoo in November unveiled an alliance with 7 newspaper groups, representing [...] Read More