Yahoo News
Yahoo Hires Ron Belanger
SearchEngineWatch reports how Ron Belanger -- former vice president of search marketing at Carat Interactive, and more recently vice president of marketing at BuyDomains.com since Aug 17 this year -- has again jumped shipped. Ron Belanger has now been hired as Senior Director of Global Advertiser Strategy and Development at YSM (Yahoo Search Marketing).
Yahoo Ties in More Services to SERPs
According to their Search Blog, Yahoo have integrated more of their services directly into search results, including local, maps, and SMS features. To minimize clutter the system supposedly uses an "abstract generating algorithm" to only "show most used information."