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Finally i managed to transfer one of my blog from Y360 to wordpress… As you all know i transferred all my blogger blogs to my self-hosted word press blog and this was the last blog left but unfortunately it was on yahoo 360 and since their’s no export-import mechanism in y360 i couldn’t do so but because y360 is taking its last breath it was very important for me to transfer this blog and after a lot of hard work i found this great tool called “Y360 to word press” but after using it i realized i was expecting too much,it was not an easy task as it didn’t worked the way it promised firstly i had to remove all videos and polls even after that it was giving error while converting so i had to start from the last entry and by taking 5 or 10 entries at a time i had to convert them in xml format and then upload it to wordpress then the most difficult task delete the entries thaat have been successfully transfered you might be thinking what’s the difficulty in that well friends its y360 and not wordpress– 1 you can not select multiple entries and delete them you have to delete 1 at a time, 2 big time cache problem so when you delete entries and return to last page you might actually end up at an enty that you have allready deleted just refresh the page 2-3 times…

And after 2-3 days of hardwork i finally managed to transfer and delete all the entries… and am really happy because wordpress rocks!!! and now i can express myself in a much better way.

PS:- 1 major drawback of this tool is the image at the bottom of title and before the content doesn’t gets transferred.

The newfound bonhomie between Yahoo & Google is not just about AdSense, the two companies are connecting their popular IM clients as well.

That means you no longer require any third-party hacks to chat with your Yahoo! Messenger friends using Google Talk and vice-versa.

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In June 2000, Google became the default search engine provider for Yahoo. The agreement lasted until 2004, when Yahoo launched its own search engine. Yahoo realized that you can actually make money from search, so it acquired Overture, a company specialized in pay-per-click advertising that also owned two search engines: AltaVista and AlltheWeb. Unfortunately for Yahoo, it moved too slowly and Google became the leader in both search and PPC advertising.

Yahoo’s decision to temporarily outsource some of its search ads to Google was predictable, especially after the two-week test from April. Instead of being acquired by Microsoft, Yahoo chose to partner with a company that has a better search ads system.

“Under the terms of the agreement, Yahoo! will select the search term queries for which - and the pages on which - Yahoo! may offer Google paid search results. Yahoo! believes that this agreement will enable the Company to better monetize Yahoo!’s search inventory in the United States and Canada. At current monetization rates, this is an approximately $800 million annual revenue opportunity. In the first 12 months following implementation, Yahoo! expects the agreement to generate an estimated $250 million to $450 million in incremental operating cash flow. The agreement will enhance Yahoo!’s ability to achieve its goal to grow operating cash flow significantly, while at the same time providing flexibility to continue to invest in ongoing initiatives such as algorithmic search innovation and search and display advertising platforms. It gives Yahoo! complete flexibility to continue to use its Panama paid search results.”

Yahoo gets a lot of value from this deal and is no longer pressured by investors to significantly improve the search ads. Even if the agreement has a term of up to ten years, I think this is a short-term deal and Yahoo is more motivated than ever to succeed on its own.

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Yahoo released a new type of search result for India called “Glue Page.” Instead of the usual text listing, some queries – like blog, einstein or asthma – will now trigger a comprehensive and very visual result page. This page contains different elements laid out in boxes; there’s “normal” search results, encyclopedic information from health sites or Wikipedia, news results, YouTube videos or Google blog search results (yes, they’re integrating results from competitors, though Google is also a partner of Yahoo in some areas) and more.

This is a very interesting prototypical service; part meta search engine and part original results from Yahoo, and a bit like Google’s universal search approach taken to the extreme.

Note many queries also still return more traditional results; perhaps Yahoo only triggers the “glue” approach when the topic is broad enough to yield lots of results from diverse services.

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There’s no stopping Yahoo!, Microsoft bid or no bid. The company has now launched “Yahoo! Buzz”, a service whose purpose is to create a hub for user-selected content from across the Web, and rank this content basis the popularity.

This is how it works: any story that reaches Yahoo! Buzz would be based on its Buzz Score; this being the number of times the story has been voted for by users.

There would be “Buzz Up” buttons placed next to articles and other content, which when clicked upon would generate a particular article’s Buzz Score. Yahoo! claims more than a hundred key news sites have agreed to position the Yahoo! “Buzz Up” buttons next to their content, including the Wall Street Journal.

The more the number of votes for a story, the more its Buzz Score, and the more it climbs the popularity charts on the Yahoo Buzz page. The story with the maximum number of user-votes would automatically become the most popular “top story”. Although, Yahoo! will have the ultimate right to decide which articles stay on its main page.

Meanwhile, the new service is very similar to that being offered by Digg; the only difference being that Digg allows user-votes for user-submitted content, whereas Yahoo! Buzz allows users to vote for content published by pre-approved news publishers. Yahoo!’s service also plans to include popular community-content from sites like Digg and Reddit.

All said, Yahoo! Buzz may not be altogether unique but the company is hoping it will surely create some buzz amongst users and advertisers for one of the Web’s most sought after destinations.