You use Yahoo! Search to look for information on the Web, Yahoo! mail to keep up with friends, and Flickr to show off your pics. Show your love for your favorite tools by casting your vote for the Yahoo! products nominated for this year's About.com Reader's Choice Awards . Yahoo! has been received 15 nominations in 13 different categories, including Yahoo! homepage, mail, Flickr, and of course, Yahoo! Search in the Best Search Engine category . Voting closes on Feb.

Yesterday and this morning, reports indicated that Yahoo wasn't having much luck selling its small business unit and HotJobs. HotJobs has, however, found a new home. This afternoon, Monster announced that it's agreed to acquire the property for $225 million, and Monster's reached a traffic agreement with Yahoo, too. The agreement will see Monster provide career- and job-related content on Yahoo's homepages in the U.S. and Canada for three years.

Yahoo and Monster Worldwide has just announced that Yahoo HotJobs will be acquired by Monster for a $225 million buy-out.  Yahoo has been looking to sell the Yahoo Hotjobs for quite some time now and finally somebody is willing to take it in and pay Yahoo for it. In case you're interested to know, Yahoo HotJobs is not really part of Yahoo's main portal business. So,

Google has posted a short but interesting video to its Webmaster Central YouTube channel . A user asked the question, "How many bots/spiders does Google currently have crawling the web?" and Google's Matt Cutts gave his answer. "It's important to realize that it's not really actual robots or actual spiders out there...instead, it's banks of machines ...at Google's data centers who open up an HTTP connection and request a page and then get it back," he says.

Google said today it is holding its third annual Doodle 4 Google contest that allows K-12 students in the U.S. to create their own logo for the Google homepage. The theme this year is " If I Could Do Anything, I Would ." Google says along with the winners Doodle appearing on the homepage on May 27, 2010, they will also receive a $15,000 college scholarship, a laptop computer and a $25,000 technology grant for their school. Google has also put together a panel of expert judges.

by Vera H-C Chan Not in the mood? Blame your pasty complexion. A new study says hiding from the sun like a bridge troll may keep the libido at bay. Curious researchers from the Medical University of Graz , Austria, decided to follow some 2,299 men and measure their male sex hormone levels. They found a corresponding dip in vitamin D and testosterone in winter months starting in October. Men hit rock bottom right around Marchâ?"something to look forward to in the weeks ahead.

by Mike Krumboltz Sega has been out of the videogame hardware business ever since they pulled the plug on the Dreamcast console back in 2002. Now, it appears they're re-entering the fray. Well, kind of. Look up classic Dreamcast games . According to gaming blog Joystiq , Sega will release something called "Zone Sega" this summer in the UK. The console contains 20 built-in games from the older Genesis console as well as thirty new games.

Comments have become part of the news. In the old days, publishers released articles and any reader comments would be addressed on the publisher's own time. In a newspaper or magazine, it may have been in the form of letters to the editor. Sometimes news radio programs would read audience feedback on the air. These things allowed the publishers a great deal of control over the commentary associated with their story. The web, blogs,

Here are a couple of simple facts: Microsoft's online services business lost $466 million during the last financial quarter, and most research firms put Google's share of the search market at least 45 percentage points above Yahoo's. Still, Microsoft believes Bing can be competitive and profitable. Yusuf Mehdi, the senior vice president of Microsoft's online audience business, talked to Reuters yesterday, and expressed a mixture of confidence and optimism on several fronts.

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