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Ever since rebuffing Microsoft's takeover bid, Yahoo has been keen to placate angry shareholders, and Carol Bartz's latest moves are doing that still. But by failing to keep up with true social networking a la Facebook, Yahoo risks losing its loyal audience.

Yahoo is rolling out new search features starting today, with more options and snapshots appearing in capsules ant the top of the page. The company hopes to reverse its steady decline in ad revenue from searches. But will this be enough to help distinguish it from Bing?

Is Yahoo a company that's impossible to revive? Averse to innovation, technologically complacent, and stuck in a lackluster market niche, Yahoo seems to resist every effort to make it relevant again.

Yahoo is planning faster email and new search features -- including highlighting key information in a capsule above the results -- for the fall. Can these tech upgrades help bring the cool back to the Internet company?

Bing is, apparently, still alive and kicking. On Nov. 11, Microsoft (MSFT) announced a deal with Wolfram|Alpha, the search engine created by Mathematica founder and math genius Stephen Wolfram. Microsoft will be Wolfram|Alpha's first partner and will incorporate results from the search engine,...

Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz said her company is open to a search deal with Microsoft; but not quite what Microsoft (MSFT) was looking for last year when Yahoo! (YHOO) snubbed its bid to buy the company. "If there's boatloads of money and the right technology involved, we'd do a deal," Bartz said while...