If you ask Yahoo, though, it's just good business.

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"Searches for World Trade Center at places such as MSN Search, Ask Jeeves and Yahoo, for example, brought back no listings relevant to the current catastrophe, " said Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Watch.

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Yahoo needs to ask employees how to improve productivity and creativity without having to sacrifice telework.

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Other search engines including Ask, MSN, and Yahoo!

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In plain search Ask has long lost the battle to Google and Yahoo and is a distant fourth in search share with 4%.

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Online account security breaches are seemingly commonplace these days -- just ask LinkedIn or Sony -- and now we can add Yahoo's name to the list of hacking victims.

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And if Yahoo survives its near-term crisis, it would make sense to ask what it will be in 10 or 20 years.

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