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Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Yahoo! continues to bolster its offerings with purchases

Yahoo!, like many of the biggies, quietly buys up other companies and then integrates their technologies into Yahoo!'s offerings. This is usually only noticed when it's a relatively well-known company they gobble up, like Flickr.

Here's a partial list of companies you may have heard of, from the SEO by the Sea blog:

Konfabulator
The original widget makers, pre-Dashboard. Now dubbed the Yahoo! Widget Engine.

Upcoming.org
A cool calendering/events listing site.

Del.icio.us
The popular social bookmarking site. Looks like they finally redesigned and got rid of the ugly UI.

blo.gs
Ping service sort of like weblogs.com and blogrolling.com, with social bookmarking qualities sort of like Del.icio.us.

Farechase
Travel search engine already integrated into Y! Travel.

Oddpost
Email and RSS aggregation that's been compared to Gmail.

Musicmatch
Music site already integrated into Yahoo! Music.

Dialpad
Internet telephony/VoIP. Look for integration into Y! Messenger.

» Full list and analysis...

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