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Prevent Google, Bing And Yahoo From Tracking Your Clicks

2:05AM Kevin Purdy | Every time you click results in Google, Yahoo or Bing, a special URL tracks your click—and makes it annoying to copy and paste. The CyberNet blog runs down click-track-preventing tools for all three search engines. More »
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IceTV Updates Yahoo Widget

2:00PM Angus Kidman | IceTV has updated its Yahoo Widget, which lets you update recording schedules from your PC. New features in the latest release, which mirrors settings in the general web client, including setting recording quality and dodging repeats. [IceTV]
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Yahoo Upgrades Mail, Messenger, And Search

6:45AM Kevin Purdy | Yahoo Mail users are getting 25MB attachment limits and easier photo uploading, a new Messenger beta allows for full-screen video chat and social network link-ins, and searchers will get refinement and analytic results as part of Yahoo’s big Monday announcements. More »
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Yahoo Calendar Now Syncs With Your iPhone

4:30AM Dustin Luck | For iPhone users who prefer Yahoo over Google for handling their online data, the Yahoo Mail blog runs down how to sync Yahoo Calendar with your iPhone. More »
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Blind Search Reveals Which Engine You Really Prefer

9:30PM Kevin Purdy | If you saw blind results for your search terms from Google, Bing and pre-Bing-partnership Yahoo, would you always choose Google? The Blind Search site lets you take a blind taste test of all three search engines and pick your winner. More »
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Yahoo Search Pad Streamlines Your Online Research

3:30AM Adam Pash | When we first saw Yahoo’s new online research tool Search Pad, we noted that it looked like an online researchers dream. Now the previously closed-to-most-of-the-public tool is available to all comers. More »
Communicate

Yahoo Mail Filters Your Inbox By Contacts And Connections

7:00AM Adam Pash | Yahoo’s email service rolled out an interesting new feature today that filters your inbox to show only emails from contacts or “connections” to help you get to your most important emails first. More »
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Yahoo Image Search Offers Better Creative Commons Filter For Flickr

11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Lifehacker editors are, if nothing else, veterans at finding relevant, reusable images with permissive Creative Commons (CC) licensing on photo sharing site Flickr. So it’s great to hear that Yahoo now offers advanced CC filtering for Flickr photos through its own, more powerful image search tool. More »
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Break Google’s Monopoly On Your Data: Switch To Yahoo Search

2:00AM Gina Trapani | I’ve switched my primary web search engine from Google to Yahoo—not because Yahoo’s better, but because Google already has enough of my personal information. Let me adjust my tinfoil hat and explain. More »
Design

Yahoo Mobile Reboots As A Mobile Start Page

1:10AM Kevin Purdy | Yahoo rolled out a new version of its mobile page, sticking nearly every Yahoo service you could want onto one long vertical scroll—but adding a few intriguing other link-ins, too, like Gmail, Facebook/Twitter updates and others. More »