From now through July 31st, Yahoo! is looking for a handful of social media mavens who eat, sleep, and breathe what's trending across the Web. Does this sound like you? If so, check out the new contest on the Yahoo! Search Facebook page. After our Insiders are selected, they'll jet off to NYC )with a friend in an all-expenses paid trip( to learn the ins-and-outs of exclusive Yahoo! content, and to attend an exclusive filming of Yahoo!'s newest original program,

 We launched Yahoo! Search BOSS V2 in April , and thanks to you, the users, the service has been blowing past our expectations. Back then, we promised that there was a lot more to come. Today we would like to announce a few updates to the service. Control your daily usage limits Many BOSS developers told us they wanted to be able to control their daily usage. Starting next wek, developers can specify a daily dollar limit for your service consumption. Of course,

Have you ever wondered how powerful it would be to instantly discover what's popular to a select group of searchers - by age or gender - over the past day, week or even over the past year? What if you had controls at your fingertips that let you slice and dice Yahoo! searchers by criteria such as gender, age group and regional interest, or gain deep insights from comparing search terms? Welcome to the new Yahoo! Clues .

 Rahul Hampole, Senior Product Manager for Yahoo! Search BOSS , recently interviewed DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg by email for the Yahoo! Developer Network's blog. One of the Q&A's include: How does Yahoo! Search BOSS appeal to a developer like you )both on the product side and the business side(? GW: On the product side, it enables a developer to deliver a fully functioning general-purpose search engine to a consumer,

The Fourth falls on a Monday this year, which means a three-day weekend for many. As holiday travel season approaches, prices at the pump have dropped and so have gas-related searches on Yahoo!. Lookups have dropped an average of 44% since May, when prices peaked at the national average $4 per gallon. Could this be a sign that people will be staying closer to home for the 4th or hitting the road to find the best fireworks display out there?

The last time I needed a cab ride to the airport, I knew I was in for multiple calls to at least three or four taxi companies before I could find one available within 15 minutes. So, I dove into the app store and its hundreds of thousands of apps to see what I could find. I'd heard about UberCab, so I started there. I downloaded the app, but after going through sign-up and registration, I wasn't sure how I'd be charged for the ride.

An enduring summer ritual, Americans have been attending state and county fairs since 1841 and still turn out in droves for livestock judging, butter sculpting, cheese curds and fun family entertainment. Did you know that women search on Yahoo! for "state fairs" more than men and that Wisconsin, Missouri and New Jersey search the most for "state fairs"? According to Yahoo!, the Top 10 Searched State Fairs are: 1. Texas State Fair 2. New York State Fair 3.

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