Yahoo to upgrade e-mail, search results

September 17, 2010 04:11 pm | Updated November 28, 2021 09:26 pm IST - SUNNYVALE

Yahoo’s coming attractions include facelifts for its e-mail service and Internet search results. File Photo: AP

Yahoo’s coming attractions include facelifts for its e-mail service and Internet search results. File Photo: AP

Yahoo’s coming attractions include facelifts for its e-mail service and Internet search results.

The changes outlined on Thursday are part of Yahoo Inc.’s latest attempt to lure back Web surfers who have been spending more of their time hanging out at Internet hot spots such as Facebook and leaning more heavily on Google Inc.’s e-mail and search services.

The e-mail upgrade is supposed to make Yahoo’s inbox twice as fast. It will also enable users to send the short messages known as “tweets” directly to their Twitter accounts from the mail service. The new features will be available sometime this fall.

Yahoo will try to distinguish its search results from its technology provider, Microsoft Corp., by offering key information in a capsule that will be highlighted above links to other sites.

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