Track News About Yahoo!

Track News About Yahoo!

Yahoo! is a big company, and there are many ways to watch Yahoo! in action.

Whether you're a potential employee, investor, competitor, or just a fan of the site, you'll want to keep tabs on what Yahoo! is doing and where it may be headed. The news sources in this hack should give you a starting point for watching the company, and you can add the RSS feeds for the sources directly to My Yahoo! or your favorite newsreader. Once you subscribe to a few Yahoo!-related feeds, you won't have any trouble keeping up with the latest news.

Yahoo! Sources

You can use Yahoo! to find information about anything in the world, even Yahoo! itself:

Yahoo! News Search

Search over 7,000 news sources to find mentions of Yahoo! in news stories:

Web

http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Yahoo%21

RSS

http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?ei=UTF-8&p=Yahoo%21

Yahoo! Finance Search

Track the progress of Yahoo!'s stock and find financial news and analysis at Yahoo! Finance:

Stock

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=YHOO

News

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=YHOO

News RSS

http://finance.yahoo.com/rss/headline?s=YHOO

Yahoo! Search Blog

This official weblog from Yahoo!, written by Yahoo! employees and special guest bloggers, gives you the inside scoop on what's new at Yahoo!:

Web

http://www.ysearchblog.com

RSS

http://www.ysearchblog.com/index.xml

Yahoo! Web Services Blog

Find out what's happening with Yahoo! Search Web Services at this official weblog:

Web

http://developer.yahoo.net/blog

RSS

http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/index.xml

Yahoo! 360 Product Blog

The Yahoo! 360 development team keeps a weblog with the latest updates and offerings at Yahoo! 360:

Web

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/product_360

RSS

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/rss-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--

Yahoo! Jobs

Discover where Yahoo! is hiring with Yahoo! HotJobs:

Web

http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobseeker/jobsearch/search_results.html?keywords_all=Yahoo

RSS

http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/rss/0/USA/-/-/-/Yahoo

Yahoo! Next

Yahoo! promotes their latest projects at this site, and you can be sure the latest and greatest Yahoo! offerings will show up here:

Web

http://next.yahoo.com

RSS

http://next.yahoo.com/index.rss

Yahoo! Research

Yahoo! Research is a group within Yahoo! that works on pushing the technology envelope. This site covers who they are and what they're working on:

Web

http://research.yahoo.com

Everything Yahoo!

This page points to virtually every Yahoo! site, and it's worth visiting periodically to get a general overview of Yahoo! offerings:

Web

http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/family/more

Outside News Sources

Not everything is available at Yahoo! Here are a few other news sources that frequently have information about Yahoo!:

CNET News.blog: Yahoo

CNET has a special weblog devoted to Yahoo!-related news:

Web

http://ecoustics-cnet.com.com/2060-65243_3-0.html

RSS

http://news.com.com/2063-65243_3-0.xml

The Unofficial Yahoo! Weblog

This is a Weblogs, Inc., production that focuses on Yahoo!:

Web

http://yahoo.weblogsinc.com

RSS

http://yahoo.weblogsinc.com/rss.xml

Wired News

Wired News keeps tabs on the entire tech industry, and a search for Yahoo! will yield many articles:

Web

http://search.wired.com/wnews/default.asp?query=Yahoo

RSS

http://search.wired.com/wnews/default.asp?query=Yahoo&format=rss

John Battelle's Searchblog

John writes about search engines and follows Yahoo! closely:

Web

http://battellemedia.com

RSS

http://feeds.feedburner.com/JohnBattellesSearchblog

Search Engine Watch Blog

This is a Jupitermedia weblog that follows all major search engines, including Yahoo!:

Web

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com

RSS

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/blog.xml

ResearchBuzz: Yahoo

Tara Calishain covers all aspects of Internet research, and her Yahoo! category is continually updated:

Web

http://www.researchbuzz.org/search_enginesyahoo.shtml

RSS

http://www.researchbuzz.org/rss_search_enginesyahoo.xml

Google News

A search for Yahoo! at Google will yield news across hundreds of sources:

Web

http://news.google.com/news?q=Yahoo!

Yahoo! Employee Weblogs

Yahoo! has over 7,600 employees, so it makes sense that some keep personal journals via weblogs. Most employee weblogs aren't connected with the company in any way, and you might not learn much about Yahoo! from them. But tune in to a few for a while and you'll definitely see the company in a new way.

Yahoo! provides official blogging guidelines to their employees. You can read them at http://jeremy.zawodny.com/yahoo/yahoo-blog-guidelines.pdf.

Here are a few employees with weblogs:

Jeremy Zawodny

Jeremy is probably the most outspoken Yahoo! employee in the blogosphere, and he frequently discusses Yahoo! on his weblog:

Web

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog

RSS

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/rss2.xml

Russell Beattie Notebook

If you're interested in Yahoo! Mobileand mobile products in generalbe sure to tune into Russell's weblog:

Web

http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook

RSS

http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/index.rss

Jeffrey McManus

Jeffery works on developer.yahoo.net, and this is his personal weblog:

Web

http://mcmanus.typepad.com

RSS

http://mcmanus.typepad.com/grind/index.rdf

Little. Yellow. Different.

Ernie Hsiung has been writing his weblog for years, and at the time of this writing he's working on the weblog features of Yahoo! 360:

Web

http://www.littleyellowdifferent.com

RSS

http://www.littleyellowdifferent.com/index.xml

Ravi's Blog

Ravi Donamraju is a Yahoo! Search engineer:

Web

http://www.dronamraju.com/journal/index.html

RSS

http://www.dronamraju.com/journal/rss.xml

Premshree's Personal Weblog

Premshree is a self-described hacker and is a contributor to this book:

Web

http://www.livejournal.com/users/premshree

RSS

http://feeds.feedburner.com/premshree

Ian C. Roger's Y! blog

Ian works for Yahoo! Music and writes about web technology on his Yahoo! 360 blog:

Web

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-FDuiCSg4eqinB8z.GGJ7TmAz

RSS

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/rss-FDuiCSg4eqinB8z.GGJ7TmAz

You can probably spot many more employee weblogs by browsing to Yahoo! Search (http://search.yahoo.com) and typing in the phrase "I work at Yahoo" weblog or "I work for Yahoo" weblog.

Grassroots Sources

Even though these sources don't pass through an editor, and the content isn't produced by professionals, these sources can provide a unique perspective on the company, point to interesting personal opinions, or refer you to obscure bits of information about Yahoo!:

Flickr Photos

Public photos tagged with Yahoo! at Flickr are often photos by employees, pictures from Yahoo! campuses, or pictures from Yahoo! events:

Web

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/yahoo

RSS:

http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=yahoo&format=rss_200

del.icio.us

The social bookmarks service del.icio.us has hundreds of people swapping links, and every day there are several dozen tagged with Yahoo!:

Web

http://del.icio.us/tag/yahoo

RSS

http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/yahoo

Furl

Like del.icio.us, Furl is a way to share links, and you can tune into the Yahoo! headlines:

Web

http://www.furl.net/furled.jsp?topic=yahoo

RSS

http://www.furl.net/members/rss.xml?topic=yahoo

Technorati

Use Technorati to find weblog posts that mention Yahoo!. Technorati's Yahoo! tag page also pulls in content from Flickr, del.icio.us, and Furl:

Web

http://www.technorati.com/tag/Yahoo

Daypop

Daypop is another weblog search that can point out mentions of Yahoo! across the blogosphere:

Web

http://www.daypop.com/search?q=yahoo&t=w

RSS

http://www.daypop.com/search?q=yahoo&s=1&c=10&ext=true&t=w&o=rss

Yahoo!-related Yahoo! Groups

Check out the Yahoo! category on Yahoo! Groups to see what Yahoo!-related topics people are discussing:

Web

http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/dir/1600653854

It would be impossible to track everything Yahoo! is doing on a daily basis, but subscribing to a combination of these sources should help keep you in the Yahoo! loop.