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When it comes to performing search on the iPhone or iOS products, Google is usually set as the default search engine. We’re sure if Apple had their own search engine, they’d probably use it, but given that Google is one of the bigger names at the moment, it is understandable why they chose them over competitors like Yahoo.

Yahoo’s presence in iOS devices is pretty much limited to the native Weather and Stocks apps, but apparently Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer is working on two internal projects that will apparently attempt to convince Apple to make the default search Yahoo and not Google.

This is according to a report from Re/code who states that Mayer is preparing detailed presentations to Apple’s executives to show them what their new mobile search product could look like. We’re not sure what Yahoo could do to convince Apple to change the default search on Safari to Yahoo, but it has supposedly managed to attract the attention of Apple’s SVP of design, Jony Ive.

Like we said earlier, Yahoo’s presence on iOS is somewhat limited. This is compared to Google which is Safari’s default search, and Microsoft’s Bing search engine which is used to help power web searches used by Apple’s voice assistant feature, Siri. Re/code states that the deal between Apple and Yahoo has yet to be finalized.

In fact Apple has yet to be pitched on the idea, but it’s definitely something that Yahoo is working towards. In the meantime how do you guys feel about the idea? Would you like to see Yahoo become your iPhone’s default search?

Yahoo Wants To Become iOS’ Default Search , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Apple, Cellphones, Rumors, iOS, yahoo,

According to Recode, Yahoo is trying to persuade Apple to drop Google and make Yahoo its default iOS search engine. Because that would mean more money for Yahoo and less money for Google. The free market works!

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo is planning to take on Netflix and Amazon, with ambitions to produce its own original web-series programming.

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The whole issue of personal privacy when it comes to emails as well as instant messages is a topic that is close to the hearts of many. After all, no one likes to have their conversation eavesdropped upon, and so the same applies to digital conversations and communication. The folks over at Yahoo have just shared progress on a huge project that would have seen the full encryption of traffic shifting between Yahoo data centers at the end of last month.

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Yahoo Works On Encrypting Their Services original content from Ubergizmo.

This article was written on February 08, 2007 by CyberNet.

Yahoo!  recently launched a new services called Pipes, and in short, it’s an “interactive feed aggregator and manipulator.” By using it, you can “create feeds that are more powerful, useful and relevant” Sounded interesting enough to me, so I thought I’d go check it out. Unfortunately when I went to go give it a try and create a new pipe, I got this message:

That didn’t take long!  Apparently Yahoo has some more work to do before it’s ready for the masses. So, after my disappointment, I set out to find someone who has gotten to play with this, who had a first hand experience with it and could give a good explanation. I came across O’Reilly Radar where Tim O’Reilly explains it well:

Using the Pipes editor, you can fetch any data source via its RSS, Atom or other XML feed, extract the data you want, combine it with data from another source, apply various built-in filters (sort, unique (with the “ue” this time:-), count, truncate, union, join, as well as user-defined filters), and apply simple programming tools like for loops. In short, it’s a good start on the Unix shell for mashups. It can extract dates and locations and what it considers to be “text entities.” You can solicit user input and build URL lines to submit to sites. The drag and drop editor lets you view and construct your pipeline, inspecting the data at each step in the process. And of course, you can view and copy any existing pipes, just like you could with shell scripts and later, web pages.

Pipes can simply be used as a kind of “power browser.”For example, you can build a custom mashup to search for traffic along your own routes every morning, or a news aggregator that searches multiple sites for subjects you care about. All you have to do is start with one of the existing modules. (And presumably, once pipes is opened to the public tonight, there will be many more, as anyone can publish their own modules.)

After reading O’Reilly’s explanation, it appears that Pipes makes it easy for people to play and interact with their feeds in a really simplified way. It also adds the social element allowing you to share the pipes you create. Hopefully it’ll be back up soon so that you can give it a try!

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