Trader Mike

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 …

Speaking of Yahoo and Google’s finance pages (in the previous post), I’ve been meaning to post about a quick way to search either site. Firefox’s search bar has long been one of my most used features. I added a few search engines to the default list back in the day but I hadn’t kept up on the hundreds of search engine add-ins (OpenSearch plugins) that have been built over the years. A few weeks ago I realized that there were engines for Google Finance and Yahoo Finance. Here’s a shot of my search engine list:

After adding both engines all I need to …

There’s a ton of buzz about Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) replacing CEO Terry Semel with Jerry Yang. But in what seems to be becoming a trend for Yahoo, the market is yawning in the face of the news. We saw similar action in May, when news came out that Yahoo had discussions with Microsoft (MSFT) about a potential partnership and/or buyout. That news caused a huge gap up in Yahoo which was quickly faded. The stock finally closed that gap (and then some) a few weeks later. We’re seeing a similar market response on the current CEO change news. This is one heavy stock and clearly its due to institutions unloading into …

The new Yahoo Finance tool for adding stock data to websites is now live. Let’s see how this works. (hat tip to Steve)

Apparently Yahoo Finance is ready to roll out some of the upgrades you may have heard about. Bloggers will especially like the stock info widgets they will be providing. Here’s the whole story:

If any of you have ideas for applications/services/features you’d like Yahoo to provide now’s your chance to speak up. Jeremy Zawodny has posted the following request on his blog:

I am curious anyway–because its a topic that comes up now and
then. More now than then, it seems. People ask about Yahoo offering web
services, but I’m not sure what services a user or developer
would want. In other words, if I was going to make a big stink about
it, I’m not sure what I’d choose to target first.

Search? Bookmarks? Finance? Messenger? Sports?

There’s a lot of potential and a lot to choose from.

So that’s the point of this post. For the …