Here's a story mainly for other bloggers...
Long time readers may remember that I've not been happy with Yahoo for a long time. I think it was about 4 years ago when they first contacted me about their plans to add blogs to Yahoo Finance. Those plans never came to fruition. I've also not been happy about the fact that their search engine doesn't seem to know my site exists. Well it looks like things are changing at Yahoo. They're now linking out to blogs and other sites just like the major newspapers started doing a few weeks ago.
This change is due to their acquisition of BuzzTracker. Here's a short interview with BuzzTracker's founder, Alan Warms, about the Yahoo News integration:
And here's a screen capture of the new "Most Blogged" feature that I saw this morning:
I doubt this stuff will help their stock recover but at least it'll make some bloggers happy.
Thanks for posting this Mike. Over the weekend, I noticed several people coming to my blog from news.yahoo.com, and could not figure out why.
On another note, check out the new Google Earth app for the iPhone.
That app is sweet but scary at the same time. I just put my house in the "bulls eye". Now I'm just waiting for the bomb to drop on me. ;-)