What does "Think Pink " mean to you? For many Americans, it means a chance to understand, advocate and educate about breast cancer. National Breast Cancer Awareness Month )October( has increased recognition for breast cancer, and although breast cancer diagnosis rates have jumped 30% since 1990, thanks to improved treatment and early detection, fatalities have declined. "How much has National Breast Cancer Awareness Month increased awareness?" On Yahoo!,

Yahoo! Search's Ethan Batraski just posted his opinion piece on Yodel )Yahoo!'s corporate blog( on "Yahoo! Search is ready to fight." His post is the second in a Yodel blog series called "In My Own Words." )Paul Cushman penned the first article in the series, which posted last week, Why Yahoo! is a player in Mobile .( Here is how it starts: Amidst never-ending stories about "Yahoo! exiting the Search game," or "'stopping innovation in Search,

Flu Searches Trending Online: Swine Flu, Bird Flu, Homemade Cold Remedies Can you hear it? The coughing and sneezing that comes with the turn of the weather? Fall is almost here and cold/flu season is just around the corner. Each year on Yahoo!, searches for cold and flu related terms start rising at the end of September and taper off in May. From "where to get flu shots" and the safety of flu shots to searches for the "super bug,

The Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance continues its great progress with the completion of algorithmic transition to Microsoft for all Asian markets, except for Korea. Users in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam are now able to enjoy a competitive choice in search. The team also recently completed European markets with algorithmic transition in Greece, Poland, Romania, Switzerland )German,

At Yahoo!, we're always looking for ways to make the Yahoo! Search experience even more organized and streamlined while serving the most relevant content. We have been working to unify the search experiences across web, multimedia, and vertical search results pages with a design that is clean and intuitive. Today, we are pleased to bring the latest design changes to life across various search results pages! The following changes are available now on the Web, Images, Video,

As we announced in July , Bing Webmaster Tools are supporting the Yahoo! Site Explorer community. Webmasters should now be using the Bing Webmaster Tools to ensure that their websites continue to get high quality organic search traffic from Bing and Yahoo!. Since the middle of August 2011, the Bing Webmaster Tools have also been integrating traffic data from Yahoo! into its reports. Please check out the Bing Webmaster blog post for more information.

The Emmys are less than one week away and while the votes from the academy haven't been tallied yet, the results from Yahoo! are in. As the Academy weighs in on who deserves the winged statuette, Yahoo! searches reveal what shows gathered the most buzz during the eligibility period )June 1, 2010 - May 31, 2011( . Although winners have not been announced, yet, will their online popularity lead to those coveted golden wings? Based on Yahoo! searches,

From the announcement of several jobs bills that President Obama is expected to address tomorrow to campaign shakeups, most recently the departure of Michele Bachmann's top campaign chief, this week has been full of political surprises. On the eve of his jobs speech, searches on Yahoo! for "Obama approval rating" are up 102% in the past 30 days . Additionally, it looks like Americans are trying to better understand what tomorrow's speech might entail.

 From hurricane Irene and the recent east coast earthquake, to kids heading back to school and the upcoming 10-year anniversary of Sept. 11, it's clear that Americans have a lot on their minds, and it appears that according to Yahoo! searches the upcoming Labor Day holiday is not nearly as front and center as it has been in years past " searches for "labor day" have gone down )38%( compared to last year at this time . With that being said,

Between yesterday's east coast earthquake and hurricane Irene, it should come as no surprise that Yahoo! searches for "end of the world 2012″ are up 183% today. One thing is for sure, if the end of the world is creeping up on us, men and women want to have as much information as possible when it comes to the latest natural disasters; although Yahoo! searches show that 66% searches for earthquake and hurricane preparedness come from women. Yahoo!

We are excited to announce that the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance continues its strong global momentum today with the algorithmic transition to Microsoft in seven additional countries plus Yahoo! Maktoob MENA )Middle East and North Africa(. Now consumers in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, the Netherlands, Sweden, plus several countries in MENA )in Arabic language(, are able to enjoy a competitive choice in search.

Kim Kardashian is set to tie the knot with her NBA player fiancé Kris Humphries on August 20 th so it comes as no surprise that searches for Kim Kardashian are spiking 681% this month on Yahoo! and are nearly 8 times higher than those for either of her sister's Kourtney or Khloe . According to Yahoo!, 90% of searches for "Kardashian Wedding" are from women between the ages of 25-44 with California , Texas , New York ,

Today, we are unveiling a brand new design for the Yahoo! Image Search results page - one that provides you with a completely immersive and engaging image browsing experience. The new search results page sports a neatly tiled look, with each image equally sized, then becoming larger when you hover over one. In addition to displaying the best images from the web,

Yahoo! Search BOSS continues to thrive with today's introduction of our fifth service, Blog Search )Beta( . A custom blog index Developers looking for a blog search API often find the APIs that do exist are providing a variation of a web index. We decided to take a different approach. Yahoo! developed a custom blog index where the relevancy is specifically tuned for blogs. This allows us to provide you a wealth of data such as the provider, the author,

 We're pleased to announce additional progress of our Search Alliance with Microsoft. This week we have transitioned algorithmic results to Microsoft in France, Germany, India, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. Just last week we announced Yahoo! transitioned certain back-end functions for Yahoo! Search over to Microsoft's search platform in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, New Zealand, Peru and Venezuela.

Yahoo!'s David Roth recently sat down with Markus Renström , our head of SEO, and discussed the recent significant success SEO has been enjoying at Yahoo!. He detailed this information in the Industrial Strength column in Search Engine Land . Here's an excerpt from the article: At many large companies, SEO is an uphill battle, so any victory should be fully celebrated. I asked what happened that enabled him to be so wildly successful in this case,

Going off to college and living away from home for the first time can be exciting for some teens, while daunting for others. In both cases, it seems college-bound teens are turning online for answers on the next chapter of their life as college-related searches spike this month on Yahoo!. Fresh searches. While some freshmen search this month on Yahoo! for "styles for freshman back to school,

We like to keep you posted on the progress of our Search Alliance with Microsoft. Earlier this year, we posted news of Australia, Brazil and Mexico transitioning algorithmic results to Microsoft bringing us to a total of five countries. We're excited to share some more news today as we move ahead with additional markets. In fact, just this week Yahoo! transitioned certain back-end functions for Yahoo! Search over to Microsoft's search platform in New Zealand, Argentina,

As the culmination of Harry Potter 's decade long struggle with Lord Voldermat hits theaters this week, online searches for " the wizarding world of harry potter" are spiking 4,506% this month on Yahoo!. As part two of " Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow s" opens to global hysteria, people are heading online to prepare for the end and searches are up 256% on Yahoo! by those seeking " lists of harry potter movies in order ,

Starting last year we have been transitioning the backend for our organic search to the Microsoft search platform as part of the Yahoo! & Microsoft Search Alliance . The transition of algorithmic search results for Yahoo! Search result pages is complete for US, Canada, Australia, Brazil and Mexico. We plan to transition the rest of world markets later this year. In an August 2010 blog post ,