Yahoo News

March 2011 – Yahoo announced that they’ll be shutting down their alternative search engine AllTheWeb on April 4th and will be ending MyBlogLog, a social network for bloggers, on May 24th. But that's not all on the chopping block.

Yahoo is currently in the process of closing a deal to sell their social bookmarking site, Delicious for $1-$2 million. This pending sale was leaked back in December along with the others on the "sunsetting" list. The sale has reportedly moved slowly due to the time needed to remove Delicious infrastructure from Yahoo technology.

On March 24th, Yahoo, unveiled an instant search feature -similar to the feature that Google introduced in September - that assists users in finding answers before they finish typing. Called Search Direct, this feature is already rolling out in beta in the U.S. and Yahoo states that it "predicts search results as fast as a person types, character by character, and presents those results dynamically, generating a fast, simple search experience that goes beyond a list of blue links."

Over the past two years Yahoo search has seen a hefty drop and alligned with Microsoft's Bing search engine in 2009.