Youtube.com the famous video site which was over taken by Google sometime back has now risen above Google itseld in terms of its traffic rankings given by Alexa.

Yahoo.com is leading No.1 Position while YouTube is at second position,MSN Live.com is @ 3rd postion while Google.com is on 4th position.(according to ALEXA traffic ranking)

While according to compete.com Google.com and Yahoo.com are far above the reach of Youtube.com traffic, we must also take into account that compete takes only US visitors into account.

Does the Traffic spike for Youtube signify the time is ripe enough for Video Search Marketing rather than conventional searching techniques with a simple clean home page???

“Yahoo Design Innovation team has been shut down completely,” wrote Doug Fritz, a former full-time staffer for the team, in an email.

More than 1000 members of Yahoo’s next generation projects are reported to have been axed after it suffered losses in its fourth Quarter

Source

This story has been dugg! but many diggers consider it too bad to be true , hence digg has put a notice

[Reported by Diggers as Possibly Inaccurate]

Lets wait and see as the truth comes out

The Board of Directors at Yahoo! Inc has Decided to turn down the Bid made by Microsoft to them, on the Grounds that Microsoft has massively undervalued the Web Enterpreneur with its Bid Value at $44.6 Billion.

Brietbart

Microsoft has offered an amount of $44.6 billion dollars to Yahoo which translates to 3 about $31 a share..

Transaction valued at approximately $44.6 billion in cash and stock; provides 62 percent premium to current trading price for Yahoo! shareholders; combined entity to create a more competitive company, providing superior value to shareholders, better choice and innovation for customers and partners

Source : Microsoft

Yahoo! has released the next version of it messenger service. The new messenger boasts of a flashy new interface and it also includes some new smilies.

Yahoo! has released the messenger in localized versions in six new markets: Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India (Hindi), and Vietnam.

Info about the messenger can be had from Y! messenger blog .

The other features in the new version of the messenger include

• • Call Forwarding to mail and Phone numbers.
  • Watch Youtube videos and Flickr photos inline ,i.e You can watch the Video or Photo Stream directly in your IM window without needing to visit the Website.
  • All new emoticons “thumbs up,” “thumbs down,” “rock on,” “it wasn’t me,” “don’t want to see it,” and “hurry up.”
  • It allows to share maps between you and you friends.
  • Intergrated contact list and Address book
  • New skins available on the main window itself.

The new version of this Y! messenger can be downloaded from here.

The localised versions can be downloaded here.