In 1999, when the Web was still merely a small part of some people’s lives rather than the behemoth it is today, GeoCities was the third most-visited Web site on the Internet. Today, Oct. 26, 2009, it is being killed off forever, not just decommissioned and archived but actually deleted from the Web altogether. R.I.P. GeoCities – you will be fondly remembered.

Carl Icahn, who led a stockholder revolt at Yahoo aimed at taking over the board of directors, changing the management team, and selling to Microsoft, has resigned from the Yahoo board.

Scammers who put together a list of 10,000 stolen Hotmail passwords may also be responsible for collecting 20,000 passwords from other e-mail providers. AOL, Comcast, Earthlink, Gmail and Yahoo are all said to be affected.

Microsoft has finalized a pact with Wolfram Alpha that will allow their Bing search engine to display some of the specialized scientific search results returned by the Wolfram engine.

In a discussion around Microsoft’s deal with Yahoo, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft made some interesting comments against competitors, Apple and Linux. Ballmer indicated that unlike its competitors, Microsoft has established the perfect balance as to where the company wants to be.

After years of on and off romances, Yahoo has finally married of it’s search daughter to Microsoft. What remains is for Yahoo to select a new direction, probably in pursuit of the title “Internet Content King.”

After years of speculation and rumor, Microsoft and Yahoo have finally reached a deal to pool the collective resources of the companies, but it isn’t the deal we had expected. Back in late 2007 rumors began circulating that Microsoft was attempting to buy Yahoo, which would allow the two entities to combine their search engines in the hopes of catching up with Google.  However, much to just about every analyst and board member’s amazement, Yahoo rejected the offer.  This led to major shake-ups in the management at the former search engine giant, and led to everyone scratching their collective heads as to what the two companies would do without one another. Rumors continued to circulate that some sort of deal was still on the table, but it was beginning to look more and more like Yahoo would give over its search portal to Microsoft, and that Yahoo would be the sales force behind selling ads on both portals.  This was indeed the final shape that the deal took as it was announced this morning, and thus brought an end to the age of Yahoo as a search engine company. While analysts all over the Web are still trying to decide just how good of a deal this is, one thing is clear in that Yahoo’s fortunes are now completely out of its own hands.  Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo, stated in a blog post on the deal:

Yahoo has been an integral part of the Web for as long as most of us have been using it. But the Yahoo homepage that was once essential has recently become sidelined by Google and social networks such as Facebook. It was overdue for a makeover, and the Yahoo homepage redesign has now been unveiled.

As the rumors fly that Yahoo and Microsoft are very near to reaching a deal on a search partnership, Yahoo activist board member Carl Icahn continues his advocacy of such a deal.

A recent leak of internal Twitter documents has been portrayed as a weakness in the entire concept of online software such as Google Apps. But, like so many technical problems, it appears human imperfections may be to blame.

Now that Bing is chomping away at Yahoo’s market share, the Yahoo might be ready to make a deal. Yahoo Bing anyone?

When people think of celebrity and entertainment news they think of, well, People, as in the magazine. On line, though, the Yahoo site Omg is the place where the worshipers in the cult of personality go to genuflect.

After declining search ad revenue growth and problems with gaining a foothold in radio and television advertising, Google is focusing on the Web’s elusive display ad marketplace.

Microsoft is dead serious about its new Bing search engine. Microsoft even bought out a company just to use its technology to build up Bing. The company is showing the world that it means business with a series of ads that targets the pitfalls of all search engines with the promise of a “cure.” However, is Microsoft promising something Bing can’t deliver?

Recently, news spread all over the Internet indicating that Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, overtook Yahoo as the number two search engine after Google. However, according to several research firms, the earlier reports indicating Bing’s victory may have been premature.

Yahoo is attempting to make Yahoo Mail your source for getting as much done as possible, but can it bring back the users it has lost to rival Google Mail?

Microsoft has once again redesigned their Web search engine, adding a few bells and whistles to try to make up ground on Google and Yahoo, who are miles ahead of Microsoft’s latest attempts.