Yahoo Upgrades Mail, Messenger, Mobile and Refines its Search
Yahoo announced a series of updates for its Mail, Messenger and Mobile as well as its search engine. The changes are part of Yahoo’s turnaround strategy to better compete with Google.
The changes include:
- Yahoo Mail allows users to view the most recent e-mails from contacts.
- Yahoo Mail will launch an Evite application to let people create and send invitations, check on the event status and add events to their Yahoo Calendar from their inbox.
- Yahoo Messenger includes video calls, an updates tab to bring status updates, recent Flickr uploads, Yahoo Buzz stories, Twitter updates and other content to Messenger users.
- Yahoo expand the size of Mail’s attachment limits for photos and files to 25MB from 10MB. People will have an option to upload and edit photos directly within an email. A new Mail mobile program rolled out for Safari today, and becomes available on more than 400 devices beginning Sept. 1.
In addition to the above changes, Yahoo also unveils its new layout for the search result to improve clarity and user experience while getting ready to support back-en Bing infrastructure.
When you are searching for a person, Yahoo Search provides direct links down the left column to the person’s Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and FriendFeed profiles when applicable. Searching on "how to" make a cake or fix a leaky faucet returns results from eHow, wikiHow, and YouTube, which searchers can watch from the search results.
Yahoo also has been adding technology that identifies related concepts, so it understands when the searcher wants to find a Jaguar car vs. animal and makes similar related object discovery rather than the number of pages linked.
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