Yahoo Upgrades Social Search, Mail; Google Tries To Get More Personal, Runs Into Problems With Earth

Go offline for a day and the search engine announcements multiply like rabbits. The most interesting is also the hardest to explain: social search engine Yahoo MyWeb 2.0 beta. It’s a mix of personalized search, search history and networking. Users can tag and save content — and share it with others, making it a potentially valuable collaboration tool. FAQ here. Yahoo continues to tie new services into omnipresent ones like Yahoo Toolbar and IM.
Yahoo’s also starting to beta a revamped mail service 11 months after acquiring Oddpost. SiliconBeat has details, including the intriguing news that the user interface can be customized for targeted audiences.
On the Google front, the company continues to push personalization, this time with enhanced personalized search that works with the My Search History feature introduced in the spring. SearchEngineWatch has more. It all involves monitoring user habits — and it comes with an off switch.
Google Earth, which debuted at last month’s press day, is now online — well, at least it was. I went to check just now and there’s a message that “due to the technical limitations of this beta launch, Google Earth has been forced to take a brief breather.” The page title: “The Earth At Night (Beta Temporarily Closed.”
As for Google Video Player, it’s already been hacked. (via Techdirt)

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