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Yahoo peps Search, Mail and Messenger
Techtree News Staff, Aug 26, 2009 1532 hrs ISTAdds new social features
Yahoo has added slew of new features and updates to its three core offerings - Mail, Search and Messenger. Yahoo Mail, one of the top leading email services, gets more social features as one of the key milestone in Yahoo Open Strategy. Along with that, Yahoo Messenger 10 will also bring social tinge like showing status updates, photo sharing, video calls and other notifications.
Yahoo Mail gets the long deserved attachment limit raise to 25MB from 10MB per mail. New Application box combines Calendar, Notepad, and several other third party apps for streamlined single window Inbox. The Application box will contain third party apps like Picnik, ZumoDrive or PayPal along with several others coming in future.
Yahoo Mail's integration with popular social networks will be a boon to community website lovers. Users will be able to get updates from their contacts on various social networks and interact directly from Yahoo Mail window. Photo sharing would now be fun as users will be able to select several photos and share all of them at same time.
Yahoo has also redesigned its Mail's mobile version (m.yahoo.com) which can perform important functions including attachment downloads. This mobile version will now have read-write access to phone's folders. Also, Mail Contacts now will automatically get updated as the contact changes the name.
Yahoo Messenger 10 beta has new HD video calling support and new Y! Updates window that'll remind you of Facebook. Users will get status updates from their contacts on Yahoo Buzz, Flickr, Twitter and other series. Yahoo Insider now can be localized with pin code to obtain local information. Messages from Yahoo Messengers contacts can be received for different IM apps on iPhone. Basically, because the Yahoo 360 service that was rolled out to compete with MySpace and Facebook didn't work, Yahoo is lifting interface and adding more features to its Mail and Messenger services.
Yahoo Search will offer a new search results page that connects users directly to web content and new results filtering options. Also, Search Assist, Yahoo's real-time query suggestion engine, has been added to Yahoo universal header's search box for search suggestions. Users can also organize, save and share their search results with Search Pad. Check out images of the latest updates here.
Even after the deal with Microsoft, Yahoo Search continues to differentiate itself from Bing. "We are Yahoo and that will continue...We collaborate on the back-end but we are competitors on the front-end", clarified Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice-president of Yahoo, at a press event held at company's headquarters.
Yahoo has sent out a clear word regarding its Search - We're still in competition!
Yahoo Mail gets the long deserved attachment limit raise to 25MB from 10MB per mail. New Application box combines Calendar, Notepad, and several other third party apps for streamlined single window Inbox. The Application box will contain third party apps like Picnik, ZumoDrive or PayPal along with several others coming in future.
Yahoo Mail's integration with popular social networks will be a boon to community website lovers. Users will be able to get updates from their contacts on various social networks and interact directly from Yahoo Mail window. Photo sharing would now be fun as users will be able to select several photos and share all of them at same time.
Yahoo has also redesigned its Mail's mobile version (m.yahoo.com) which can perform important functions including attachment downloads. This mobile version will now have read-write access to phone's folders. Also, Mail Contacts now will automatically get updated as the contact changes the name.
Yahoo Messenger 10 beta has new HD video calling support and new Y! Updates window that'll remind you of Facebook. Users will get status updates from their contacts on Yahoo Buzz, Flickr, Twitter and other series. Yahoo Insider now can be localized with pin code to obtain local information. Messages from Yahoo Messengers contacts can be received for different IM apps on iPhone. Basically, because the Yahoo 360 service that was rolled out to compete with MySpace and Facebook didn't work, Yahoo is lifting interface and adding more features to its Mail and Messenger services.
Yahoo Search will offer a new search results page that connects users directly to web content and new results filtering options. Also, Search Assist, Yahoo's real-time query suggestion engine, has been added to Yahoo universal header's search box for search suggestions. Users can also organize, save and share their search results with Search Pad. Check out images of the latest updates here.
Even after the deal with Microsoft, Yahoo Search continues to differentiate itself from Bing. "We are Yahoo and that will continue...We collaborate on the back-end but we are competitors on the front-end", clarified Prabhakar Raghavan, senior vice-president of Yahoo, at a press event held at company's headquarters.
Yahoo has sent out a clear word regarding its Search - We're still in competition!
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